The highly anticipated HBO documentary (Money Electric: The Mystery of Bitcoin) was aired earlier on Wednesday, Taiwan time. According to (DB News), the approximately 100-minute documentary identified Canadian software developer Peter Todd as Bitcoin The anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, however, has been denied by Todd.
Producer and director of Money Electric: The Mystery of Bitcoin, Cullen Hoback is best known for his HBO miniseries Q: Into the Storm, in which he claims to have confirmed multiple QAnon conspiracy theories author. In the latest piece of work to gain attention from the crypto community, Cullen Hoback investigates the origins of Bitcoin and attempts to trace the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
DB News summarizes several reasons why the HBO documentary believes Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto:
In 2010, Todd (under a new account) responded to Satoshi Nakamoto on the Bitcoin forum bitcointalk; HBO claimed that he accidentally completed Satoshi Nakamoto's article using his own account
Both accounts became inactive after a few days
Todd later implemented the "Replace-by-Fee (RBF)" concept discussed in the article
Documentary claims Todd used the pseudonym "John Dillon" to promote RBF
Both use British/Canadian spelling
The documentary claims that Nakamoto's publishing schedule is consistent with students' schedules, with more publishing on weekends.
Todd has discussed "sacrifice" Bitcoin; documentary suggests this refers to destroying Satoshi Nakamoto's coin
Peter Todd said in an email to CoinDesk ahead of the airing of Money Electric: The Mystery of Bitcoin that if the filmmaker Cullen Hoback identified him as Satoshi Nakamoto, it would be "sick". Seek medical attention in a hurry."
"Of course, I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto," Todd said. "It's ironic that a director known for making QAnon documentaries is also resorting to QAnon-style conspiracy thinking based on coincidence."
In the documentary, Hoback confronts Todd about his theory on how and why Todd concealed his involvement in the invention of Bitcoin. Todd dismissed Hoback's statement and shook his head with a wry smile.
"I admit you're quite creative, you can come up with some crazy arguments, it's ridiculous," Todd says in the movie, "But I will say, yes, of course I am Satoshi Nakamoto, and I am also Craig Wright .
Todd was obviously joking, not confessing: Todd has made similar jokes before, saying in a 2019 interview with Peter McCormack, host of the "What Bitcoin Did" podcast: "I am Satoshi Nakamoto, and so is everyone else. .
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