HBO's New Documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” claims to have discovered the identity of Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
The film suggests that Canadian Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd is actually Nakamoto, though Todd called the claims “ridiculous.”
“I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto,” he told the BBC.
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Todd argues that the documentary could jeopardize his own security – Satoshi Nakamoto is potentially the 20th richest global entity, with a Bitcoin wallet worth more than $65 billion.
Crypto sites are also critical of the news. CoinTelegraph said the documentary is flawed with “contradictions and errors in timing”, noting that HBO seems to have taken it too seriously when Todd sarcastically remarks that he is Satoshi in the film.
Bloomberg reports that the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has been a topic of investigation since 2011. A physicist named Dorian Nakamoto denied being Satoshi after Newsweek did to claim in 2014. Next year, New York Times suggested it might be Nick Szabo, a computer scientist.
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Meanwhile, Todd isn't the only person (jokingly or not) saying they were the inventor of Bitcoin: In March, a UK judge rule that Australian Craig Wright was not the creator of Bitcoin as he claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
In Money Electric: The Mystery of Bitcoin is available for streaming on Max.