Who Is Peter Todd, The Man Named By HBO As Bitcoin’s Mystery Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?
Satoshi Nakamoto—the mysterious, anonymous creator of bitcoin—has successfully kept their real identity hidden since they published bitcoin's white paper in 2008.
Bitcoin has become a $1.2 trillion asset (though one Wall Street giant has predicted it could be about to go far higher) over the last 15 years—making the man, woman or group known only as Satoshi Nakamoto worth almost $70 billion if they still control the 1.1 million bitcoins they're believed to hold across a series of wallet addresses.
Now, HBO documentary film maker Cullen Hoback has named Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer who has been involved with bitcoin since 2010, as who he believes to be the real-world identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
What if the real reason for using the name Satoshi, for the anonymity, was so that people could take bitcoin seriously, so they could believe it was created by [a famous cryptographer] and not some kid still in school," Hoback said during the Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery documentary on HBO before putting his theory directly to Todd—who was in his early 20s and finishing a fine arts degree in 2008, the year Satoshi Nakamoto published the bitcoin white paper.
Who Is Peter Todd?
