🔴🔴Who is Len Sassaman, and why is HBO speculating that he might be Satoshi Nakamoto?
🟡Len Sassaman was a renowned cryptographer and privacy advocate. In his late teens, he became involved with cryptographers in San Francisco.
🟡Sassaman worked on important privacy projects like Pretty Good Privacy and GNU Privacy Guard. He also co-founded the software-as-a-service startup Osogato with his wife, computer scientist Meredith Patterson.
🟡In 2011, Tu //V //Mint //was free at the age of 31. He was a PhD student in electrical engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium at the time. A memorial to him is encoded in the Bitcoin blockchain.
🟡Now, the upcoming HBO documentary “MoneyElectric: The Bitcoin Mystery” suggests that Sassaman may be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin.