Forbes StaffA new HBO documentary suggests that Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is a Canadian tech expert, a claim he strongly denies.
As per a new HBO documentary, Satoshi Nakamoto, a Canadian tech expert, created Bitcoin. However, the tech expert vehemently denies such claims. Since Bitcoin was launched in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto’s real identity has captivated the whole digital space. For years, social media has speculated about the man behind Bitcoin, and the newly released HBO documentary claims to unmask the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
HBO documentary claims to have solved the biggest mystery in the crypto world.
The newly released HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” claims to have solved the biggest mystery in the world of cryptocurrency. Since it was launched in 2009, the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has captivated the digital world. The new documentary claims that Canadian crypto expert Peter Todd is behind the trillion-dollar invention. In the HBO film, the director Cullen Hoback approached Peter Todd with his findings, including a post that appears to be a continuation of one made by Nakamoto.
Peter Todd strongly denies claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto.
The director of the HBO documentary claims that Todd had once said that he deliberately destroyed a large number of Bitcoins, which plays into a long-held Bitcoin theory that its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, had destroyed access to his stack of 1.1 million Bitcoins, which currently would be worth around $69 billion. If this claim is valid, the wealth generated from Bitcoin would make Satoshi one of the 20 wealthiest people worldwide. However, Peter Todd quickly rubbished the claim as “ludicrous” and wrote on X in a reply, “I’m not Satoshi.”
Todd, on X, added, “I was working full time at a startup while also finishing an arts degree, and then after that, starting a physics degree. I’ve talked about this publicly many times. The truth is pretty simple: there’s hundreds, even thousands of people who could have created Bitcoin. We’re not going to find Satoshi.”
