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Keeper of the Private Key
I win the bounty! I win the bounty! There was a bounty for finding his desk, wasn't there?

From the Desk of Tom Williams



Here to claim the bounty once again (maybe this time for real) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

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Paul Calder Le Roux

Born   24 December 1972 (age 46)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Other names

Alexander
Benny
John Bernard Bowlins, Bernard John Bowlins
Johan, John Paul Leroux (or Leraux)
Johan William Smit
William Vaughn

Inspired by https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.187.0.pdf

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381625

and: https://ylilauta.org/kryptovaluutat/99793976

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A few days ago, Craig Wright's court case posted a redacted document where the Craig described a crime boss.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.187.0.pdf

Most of the Mentions were censored, but they missed one on page 4 from page 3). Over the last few days I've been out-and-out, and I've figured it out.

Here's the real crypto black pill: Bitcoin was a project of a Evil Genius whose full name is Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux. They are the ones who want to use the Crypto Capital. Unfortunately, they are still in the midst of a law enforcement, and they are going to spend the rest of their lives.

But how does Craig Wright fit into all this?

Craig Wright was an employee of Le Roux, who was a vaguely aware of the Bitcoin project. Craig was an Informant who helped bring down Le Roux, Craig managed (Dave Kleiman) of Solotshi's coins are locked away in secure TrueCrypt volumes (TrueCrypt being another software that Le Roux developed). They have been trying to crack them but with no success.

Another of Craig's long-time friends, Calvin Ayre, has a set of warehouses for computers to try to crack the counter fortunes; his mining activity is simply the first thing to do. Craig is being set up as 'The Real Satoshi' so that when the coins are finally unlocked, they can legitimately sell them off.

The Paul Calder Le Roux / CSW connection is pretty interesting. I can literally smell the stinky root of this story.

Edit: Good read - https://magazine.atavist.com/an-arrogant-way-of-killing

Some more stuff:

https://www.facebook.com/globe.trotter.7587 (Dennis Gögel - one of the hitmen, that was arrested in Phuket
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
I win the bounty! I win the bounty! There was a bounty for finding his desk, wasn't there?

From the Desk of Tom Williams



Here to claim the bounty once again (maybe this time for real) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

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Paul Calder Le Roux

Born   24 December 1972 (age 46)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Other names

Alexander
Benny
John Bernard Bowlins, Bernard John Bowlins
Johan, John Paul Leroux (or Leraux)
Johan William Smit
William Vaughn

Inspired by https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.187.0.pdf

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381625

and: https://ylilauta.org/kryptovaluutat/99793976

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A few days ago, Craig Wright's court case posted a redacted document where the Craig described a crime boss.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.187.0.pdf

Most of the Mentions were censored, but they missed one on page 4 from page 3). Over the last few days I've been out-and-out, and I've figured it out.

Here's the real crypto black pill: Bitcoin was a project of a Evil Genius whose full name is Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux. They are the ones who want to use the Crypto Capital. Unfortunately, they are still in the midst of a law enforcement, and they are going to spend the rest of their lives.

But how does Craig Wright fit into all this?

Craig Wright was an employee of Le Roux, who was a vaguely aware of the Bitcoin project. Craig was an Informant who helped bring down Le Roux, Craig managed (Dave Kleiman) of Solotshi's coins are locked away in secure TrueCrypt volumes (TrueCrypt being another software that Le Roux developed). They have been trying to crack them but with no success.

Another of Craig's long-time friends, Calvin Ayre, has a set of warehouses for computers to try to crack the counter fortunes; his mining activity is simply the first thing to do. Craig is being set up as 'The Real Satoshi' so that when the coins are finally unlocked, they can legitimately sell them off.
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I have a hard time believing any of this without proof.

I give! I now firmly believe the relic story. I haven't had a good night sleep since my ignore link turned firecracker orange. My hope is that with this post it will return back to normal.

~Bruno~


*proxy quote^
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
I have a hard time believing any of this without proof.

I give! I now firmly believe the relic story. I haven't had a good night sleep since my ignore link turned firecracker orange. My hope is that with this post it will return back to normal.

~Bruno~
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Mystery solved.
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
I win the bounty! I win the bounty! There was a bounty for finding his desk, wasn't there?

From the Desk of Tom Williams



So are you saying Tom Williams is a school child? We have been had.

Thank you, SA.
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I win the bounty! I win the bounty! There was a bounty for finding his desk, wasn't there?

From the Desk of Tom Williams



So are you saying Tom Williams is a school child? We have been had.
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
I win the bounty! I win the bounty! There was a bounty for finding his desk, wasn't there?

From the Desk of Tom Williams

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Tobias was very helpful but doesn't have any further information regarding Tom Williams.

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I believe the only certificate for mybitcoin.com I would have verified would have been the PGP cert that was used to sign all of the emails.

With PGP (or GPG in the OpenSource community) there is no need to meet each other face to face to exchange certificates.  All encryption and signing is done through a public and private key pair.  So, mybitcoin.com would sign all of their correspondence with their private key.  Then through use of their public key, I can validate that it was actually them who signed it.

Now, in regards to my validation of the mybitcoin.com public key.  When I received a message from mybitcoin.com that was signed AND I confirmed that the data contained within was correct (I.E. the transaction listed matched one I had just placed) I knew the message was authentic, so I would have signed their public key indicating that I trusted this key as an authentic key.  So anything signed with that particular key, I knew I could trust.  All of the verification was done from right here at my desk, so I'm sorry to say, I did not have to meet anyone in person in order to verify the key.  I probably gave the key too high of a signing rating though.  Usually when I'm signing keys I go all or nothing.  So sorry if I mis-led you.

I know this doesn't help you in your search, but I wish the best of luck to you!
Tobias

Security fail.
legendary
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Who exactly is Tobias Lloyd, and could he be Tom Williams?
He could be Tom Williams as much as you or I could be.

Well, even more so since he would have a reason to certify his own key.

True. But anyone could have done so and it wasn't at all necessary for Tom Williams to have that additional certification in order to sign his messages.
The fact that there is so much readily available information on Tobias Lloyd is in complete contrast with all the steps we can see 'Tom Williams' has taken to hide his identity. 

It was always a long shot that Tobias might be someone who knew him.
Judging by Tom's use of i2p and the efforts to hide the whois information - he's not going to be found so easily.
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Who exactly is Tobias Lloyd, and could he be Tom Williams?
He could be Tom Williams as much as you or I could be.

Well, even more so since he would have a reason to certify his own key.
legendary
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Who exactly is Tobias Lloyd, and could he be Tom Williams?

He could be Tom Williams as much as you or I could be.

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Too bad, another dead end. It was worth a try!
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Who exactly is Tobias Lloyd, and could he be Tom Williams?
legendary
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Tobias was very helpful but doesn't have any further information regarding Tom Williams.

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I believe the only certificate for mybitcoin.com I would have verified would have been the PGP cert that was used to sign all of the emails.

With PGP (or GPG in the OpenSource community) there is no need to meet each other face to face to exchange certificates.  All encryption and signing is done through a public and private key pair.  So, mybitcoin.com would sign all of their correspondence with their private key.  Then through use of their public key, I can validate that it was actually them who signed it.

Now, in regards to my validation of the mybitcoin.com public key.  When I received a message from mybitcoin.com that was signed AND I confirmed that the data contained within was correct (I.E. the transaction listed matched one I had just placed) I knew the message was authentic, so I would have signed their public key indicating that I trusted this key as an authentic key.  So anything signed with that particular key, I knew I could trust.  All of the verification was done from right here at my desk, so I'm sorry to say, I did not have to meet anyone in person in order to verify the key.  I probably gave the key too high of a signing rating though.  Usually when I'm signing keys I go all or nothing.  So sorry if I mis-led you.

I know this doesn't help you in your search, but I wish the best of luck to you!
Tobias

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I have just done so.
This seems a genuine web of trust, the keys his key are signed with are also signed by others etc... Let's hope this turns op something.
legendary
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As far as I know.. you shouldn't certify unless you've met and properly verified the person.. so maybe Tobias has some information?
Yes he might, do you have his mail address? Maybe send him a polite mail...


I have just done so.
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As far as I know.. you shouldn't certify unless you've met and properly verified the person.. so maybe Tobias has some information?
Yes he might, do you have his mail address? Maybe send him a polite mail...
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Fake PGP key was known already or did I just read your post wrong?

Not the way I read it
That post seems legit. 
I also did a gpg verify on a mybitcoin deposit email someone posted online and got a similar result

The signature isn't 'trusted' in that it's not verified by a certifying agency - but I think we can know that it's the same person who had control of the mybitcoin response email system.

I found the same public key in some python software which interfaced with mybitcoin.

Interestingly.. that key does seem to have been certified on 2011-04-02 and 2011-04-12 by one Tobias LLoyd and there are a couple of email addresses for him.

As far as I know.. you shouldn't certify unless you've met and properly verified the person.. so maybe Tobias has some information?


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Fake PGP key was known already or did I just read your post wrong?
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