What if Satoshi Nakamoto isn’t missing… but in prison?
Sounds insane, right? But stick with me for a second.
There’s a wild theory floating around that the elusive creator of Bitcoin might actually be Paul Le Roux — a Zimbabwean-born coding prodigy… and cartel boss.
Let’s unpack this:
Who’s Paul Le Roux?
A brilliant software engineer who created E4M, an encryption tool so tough, even the NSA had issues.
He believed privacy = freedom and wrote a manifesto about it. Sound familiar?
Then things took a dark turn.
In the 2000s, Le Roux ran illegal online pharmacies, then built a sprawling global crime syndicate.
Fake IDs. Encrypted comms. Drug routes. Murder-for-hire. All operated like a military campaign.
And by 2008 — the exact year Bitcoin appeared — he badly needed a discreet, borderless way to move money.
Here’s where it gets weird:
One of Paul’s known aliases?
Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux.
Solotshi… Satoshi? Coincidence?
Satoshi vanished in 2010. Le Roux was arrested in 2012.
Then, during the Kleiman v Wright case, a leaked doc casually mentioned Le Roux — linking him to Bitcoin for the first time.
Even weirder? In court, he said he wanted to start a Bitcoin mining biz.
The eerie connections:
Genius-level coder? Check.
Needed anonymous, international money transfers? Check.
Obsessed with privacy? Check.
But hold up — there’s skepticism:
Their coding styles don’t match.
Le Roux was reckless. Satoshi was calm and methodical.
Bitcoin wasn’t used in his crimes.
Plus, Satoshi’s last known message appeared in 2014… while Le Roux was behind bars.
So what do you think?
Was Satoshi a lone genius? A collective of cypherpunks? Or a cartel kingpin in a jail cell?
Drop your theory in the comments.
