In the documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, HBO credited Peter Todd as the creator of Bitcoin. The programmer denied this.

The film was directed by Cullen Hoback, whose previous work, Q: Into the Storm, was dedicated to debunking the QAnon conspiracy theory popular in the US.

The basis for the authors' assumptions was Todd's post on the BitcoinTalk forum, allegedly accidentally published using his own profile, Forbes noted.

Hoback and his team also found a message from the programmer claiming to be the “world’s leading expert on how to donate your bitcoins” and to have done so himself. The authors took this as an admission of giving up access to the approximately 1.1 million bitcoins attributed to the cryptocurrency’s creator.

At one point in Hoback’s interview, the programmer laughingly said that he was “Satoshi Nakamoto and Craig Wright.” CoinDesk noted that Todd made a similar joke during Peter McCormack’s What Bitcoin Did podcast in 2019. At the same time, he admitted that he bought his first bitcoins at $0.2. This corresponds to the coin’s price around October 2010 — almost two years after the publication of the digital gold white paper.

The programmer warned the filmmakers against drawing incorrect conclusions regarding his role in the history of the first cryptocurrency.

"This is ridiculous. It would be very funny if you put this in a documentary and Bitcoiners watched it. I suspect a lot of them would be very happy if you went down that route because it's another example of journalists really missing the point and it's very funny," Todd said.

Before the film's release, users actively placed bets on the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket on who HBO would name as the creator of Bitcoin. Initially, Len Sassaman was in the lead, probably at the suggestion of Galaxy Digital's head of research Alex Thorne. Then the majority leaned towards Nick Szabo. Adam Back, Paul le Roux, Gavin Wood, Hal Finney, Wright and others were also mentioned, but not Todd.

Recall that Wright, who was found to be a "fake Satoshi" by the court, opened a new account on X. In accordance with the decision, a statement was published on the page that the entrepreneur is not Satoshi Nakamoto.#AirdropGuide