Aired Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, Cullen Hoback’s documentary claims to have solved the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto's identity. However, the developer has refuted this theory.
This is a revelation that could have a bombshell effect on the cryptocurrency community... or not. In "Money Electric - The Bitcoin Mystery," aired this night on the American pay channel HBO, director Cullen Hoback follows the trail of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. His true identity, according to Hoback's conclusions: Peter Todd, a former Bitcoin developer. Interviewed in the documentary, the Canadian computer scientist continues to deny it to the camera.
"If I were Satoshi, I would have destroyed my ability to prove it so as to never have the temptation to do so," he explains during an interview conducted in Latvia in a former World War II bunker. "But you're not Satoshi?" the director tries. "Oh no, I am Satoshi, we are all Satoshi," replies this developer known for his sarcastic remarks and for having predicted... that Bitcoin would be worthless one day.
His name is unknown to the general public and even to specialists and other Bitcoiners because he was not on the list of people considered likely, such as Adam Back or Nick Szabo, in the list of bets on the Polymarket website. He is historically the chief scientist of the Bitcoin project in its early days.
On the social network X, Peter Todd makes light of the situation and claims that the director did not specify that the hour-and-a-half documentary aimed to uncover the anonymity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
The “White Paper”
As old as the first Bitcoin transactions, the question of the father of the benchmark cryptocurrency has stirred the internet and has been the subject of theories, high-profile events, and even lawsuits.
Satoshi Nakamoto discreetly published the "white paper," or roadmap, on October 31, 2008, which laid the foundation for Bitcoin, based on blockchain, the data storage and transmission technology that functions as an unalterable and decentralized accounting book. He managed to unite a community of cryptography and freedom enthusiasts called "cypherpunks." In 2010, he stopped giving any sign of life.
In 2014, journalists from Newsweek magazine thought they had already found the inventor of the cryptocurrency-based monetary system in California. But this recluse former physicist of Japanese origin flatly denied being the originator of BTC.
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