Who Is the Person HBO Identified as Satoshi Nakamoto?
The HBO documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery has revealed that Peter Todd is the man who created Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
The 39-year-old Canadian is known for his long-standing contributions as a core developer, advisor, and programmer to various cryptocurrency and blockchain projects.
Peter Todd Denies
Despite this, Todd has consistently denied being Nakamoto, both before and after the documentary aired. He flatly stated on X: âI am not Satoshi.â
On October 8, BitMEX Research posted on X that some of the evidence in the documentary suggesting Todd is Nakamoto is âcompletely absurdâ and there is âno basisâ to believe it.
Todd was one of the few people who publicly communicated with Nakamoto about Bitcoinâs source code and features before Nakamoto disappeared in 2011. These conversations were used by director Cullen Hoback as part of the evidence to suggest that Todd might be Nakamoto.
Who is Peter Todd?
When Satoshi Nakamoto first published the Bitcoin white paper, outlining his vision for a decentralized peer-to-peer payment system, Peter Todd was around 23 years old.
In a 2019 podcast, Todd revealed that he began communicating with Hal Finney, one of the first contributors to Bitcoin, and Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash, when he was around 15.
Since July 2014, Todd has served as a Bitcoin Core Developer at the Bitcoin platform Coinkite, and has been a board advisor at the digital collectibles platform Verisart since 2015.
Previously, in 2001, Todd worked at Starnix as a Linux system support and services developer for three months, and then in various short-term roles from 2007 to 2008.
