Could he be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin?
After nearly 10 hours of deep research, I uncovered some shocking facts.
Here’s the story of what could be the biggest crypto billionaire of all time 🧵👇
1/➮ Who is Len Sassaman?
🕷 Len Sassaman was a renowned cryptographer and passionate privacy advocate.
🕷 He was actively involved with the cypherpunk movement in San Francisco.
🕷 Contributed to privacy-focused projects like Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), and co-founded a SaaS startup.
2/➮ In 2011, Len Sassaman tragically passed away by suicide at the age of 31.
🕷 At the time, he was a doctoral student in electrical engineering at KU Leuven in Belgium.
🕷 A tribute to him was encoded into the Bitcoin blockchain, honoring him as “a friend, a kind soul, and a devious schemer.”
3/➮ Recently, HBO produced a documentary titled "MoneyElectric: The Bitcoin Mystery."
🕷 It hints at the possibility that Len Sassaman might have been Satoshi Nakamoto.
🕷 In other words, suggesting that he could be the mysterious creator of Bitcoin.
4/➮ Some pieces of evidence, though tenuous, support the theory that Sassaman could be Satoshi Nakamoto:
🕷 His exceptional academic background, expertise in cryptography, and a linguistic analysis that shows similarities between his writing style and Nakamoto's.
🕷 Additionally, Sassaman was deeply embedded in the cypherpunk community, a movement closely linked to Bitcoin's early development.
🕷 The timing of Sassaman's death in 2011 also aligns with Nakamoto's disappearance from the public eye, fueling further speculation.
And there may be more…
5/➮ The most intriguing piece of evidence is that Satoshi Nakamoto went silent just two months before Len Sassaman's death.
🕷 While some are convinced that this points to Sassaman being Nakamoto, others strongly disagree.
🕷 For example, Sassaman's wife firmly denies the theory. She wrote:
"Len was many things, but he was not Satoshi. He would never have left me in the dark on something like that."
6/➮ Another intriguing detail is that Len Sassaman's suicide note contained 24 random words.
🕷 This strikingly resembles the 24-word seed phrases used to secure cryptocurrency wallets.
🕷 Moreover, $64 billion worth of Satoshi's Bitcoin ($BTC) still remains untouched to this day.
7/➮ I think we’ll need to wait for the premiere of HBO’s documentary to draw any final conclusions.
🕷 Regardless of whether Len Sassaman was Satoshi Nakamoto, his contributions to cryptography and privacy remain significant.
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8/➮ Additional Thing
🕷 Len Sassaman is currently leading the polls on Polymarket as the most likely candidate to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
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