The only two that match up with the Windows piece of the puzzle are Dave Kleiman and Paul Le Roux. Of those two, Paul Le Roux had a interest in online gambling. Guess what the first Bitcoin release had references to.
I recently had to RMA my i9-13900KS because it was faulty. I was experiencing some of the weirdest behavior I have ever seen on a PC. For example,
1. Whenever I tried to install Nvidia drivers I would get "7-zip: Data error"
2. A fresh install of Windows would give me SxS error when trying to launch edge
3. I could not open the control panel
4. BSOD loop on boot