[arcticbull]

To be fair, we don't really know it was Paul "Solotshi" Calder Le Roux, but there is a ton of circumstantial evidence - not least the nickname on his Congolese diplomatic passport. I really liked the Wired write-up by an author who's been following Le Roux's, uh, career, for many years. [1] It's fair to say his authorship of E4M (the precursor to TrueCrypt) gave him the crypto chops.

Le Roux genuinely impresses me haha. He's a real-life Bond villain - even his Wikipedia article is riveting [2].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux