American TV channel HBO has made a new documentary that claims to have uncovered the true identity of Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The film is due out on October 8.
👾 Spoilers:
Galaxy Digital's head of research said he heard an HBO documentary claim that Nakamoto's real identity is Len Sassaman.
🔐 Cypherpunk, Cryptographer, Privacy Advocate
Len is a true genius. By the age of 18, he was already working on the TCP/IP protocol, which is now the basis of the Internet. Sassaman is known as an ardent supporter of data protection, and has devoted his entire career to cryptography and protocol development.
😔 Suicide
Len passed away on July 3, 2011, at the age of 31. Satoshi's last message appeared on the forums in December 2010. He is not the first or last IT genius to commit suicide or die under strange circumstances: Aaron Swartz, Gareth Williams, Adrian Lamo, Ian Murdock - and the list goes on.