Joe Delich, a classmate who later worked with Mr. Roche at his law firm, remembers him constantly checking the price of Bitcoin on his laptop during classes.
Mr. Roche cashed out before a big price drop, earning about $100,000 in profits.
As a third-year student, Mr. Roche collaborated with a professor on a paper discussing Bitcoin’s virtues as the first currency free from government interference.
By then, Mr. Roche was a first-year associate at Boies Schiller Flexner, where he was developing a reputation as the kid who understood crypto.
But many people considered Dr. Wright a fraud, calling into question the notion that he had mined early blocks of Bitcoin, much less cheated someone out of them.
Persons:
Joe Delich, Roche, ”, Boies Schiller, Ira Kleiman, Craig Wright, Satoshi Nakamoto, Kleiman, Wright, David, David Kleiman
Organizations:
Purdue University, Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, Mr, Street
Locations:
Miami