Back on October 3, documentary director Cullen Hoback and HBO recently announced that the documentary (Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery) will expose the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator behind Bitcoin. #HBO纪录片或揭示中本聪身份
A Home Box Office (HBO) documentary set to premiere next week claims to reveal the true identity of Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, Coidesk reports.
Despite my analysis, Money Electric: The Mystery of Bitcoin will air on HBO on October 8. The film interviews people who claim to have been in close contact with the founder after Bitcoin was released. It suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto may not be one person, but a group of people. However, the trailer does not provide enough information to reveal the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Rumors that Satoshi's identity has been exposed may just be hype for the movie.
The name Satoshi Nakamoto has been the most mysterious existence in the field of cryptocurrency since the birth of Bitcoin. This mystery not only adds to the romance of Bitcoin, but also strengthens it as a symbol of decentralized currency!
After all, after his disappearance, Satoshi Nakamoto aroused the curiosity of many netizens and hackers, because his account had millions of bitcoins, and as early as 2014, the value of these coins exceeded one billion US dollars. If calculated at the current price of $60,000, then Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin assets would be as high as $60 billion.
Len Sassaman is not Satoshi Nakamoto?
After reading Mr. Zhu Weisha's series of articles (Find Satoshi Nakamoto and Welcome the New World), you will understand that Len Sassaman is not Satoshi Nakamoto. Mr. Zhu has solved the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto's identity through careful analysis and judgment. His real identity is Wei Dai
This is Len Sassaman
Could be the true identity of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto
HBO's upcoming documentary may finally reveal that
Here’s why this might be true, and what it means for your Bitcoin:
Since childhood, Len has been obsessed with privacy and believes that the Internet needs to be protected from prying eyes.
In college, he began to study Mixmaster
An anonymous email tool that hides the sender's identity
But this is just the beginning…
As he gets older, Len continues to develop privacy tools
He also works as a security researcher at KU Leuven
But during this time, something bigger was brewing in the cryptography field…
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper
This is a document that changed the world
The design of Bitcoin required a deep understanding of cryptography and decentralized systems, skills Sassaman possessed.
But that’s not enough to prove anything, right?
In 2009, Bitcoin was officially launched
A quiet revolution has begun
Satoshi Nakamoto remains anonymous and communicates with early users through the Internet
Len Sassaman was there, and Bitcoin developer Hal Finney was a good friend of his…
So who is Hal?
Hal is not your average user
He was the person who received the first Bitcoin transaction sent by Satoshi Nakamoto
Hal is also one of the earliest Bitcoin developers and a good friend of Len
But in 2011, a mysterious thing happened
Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared without leaving any explanation or clues
Before he disappeared, he left behind an intriguing statement:
“I’ve moved on to other things and it may not be in my future.”
Just a few months later, in July 2011, Len Sassaman passed away
His wife reported that he committed suicide.
Some believe this was his last move for privacy.
A way to ensure your identity as Satoshi Nakamoto will never be revealed
Soon after, Len was immortalized in the Bitcoin network.
Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed created this tribute in block 138725
The main argument against this is his wife’s claim that Len is not Satoshi
But she said that was "as far as she knew"
And she later admitted that she had not looked through all the hard drives
So what happens if HBO proves Len is Satoshi?
I think this is good news for Bitcoin
Why?
Because Len is no longer alive.
The Bitcoin community can finally get closure
Len Sassaman became "Satoshi Nakamoto"?
According to the latest data from on-chain prediction platform Polymarket, many people are betting that the late cryptographer Len Sassaman is the strongest candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto.
Len Sassaman is a well-known American cryptographer and one of the important participants in the early Cypherpunks movement. He focuses on the research of privacy technology, has participated in the development of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption software, and is the main maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous email forwarding system.
In every Bitcoin node, there is an obituary embedded in the transaction data, a memorial to Len Sassaman, a man who has been almost immortalized on the blockchain. This memorial couldn’t be more appropriate.
Four possibilities of becoming "Satoshi Nakamoto":
1. His death coincided with Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappearance
Satoshi Nakamoto's last post was in April 2011. Two months later, Sassaman committed suicide, which aroused people's associations.
2. Potential Contributors to Bitcoin Technology
The birth of Bitcoin relied on years of discussion and research in the cypherpunk community, and Sassaman was one of the important members of this community.
3. Collaboration with Hal Finney
Sassaman worked on the development of PGP alongside the late Hal Finney, and Finney was the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction.
4. Language and geographic location match
Sassaman uses British English, not American or Japanese as Nakamoto’s self-proclaimed Japanese background might suggest.
Is Len Sassaman the mysterious creator of Bitcoin? All the answers are waiting to be revealed.
