HBO Names Real Bitcoin Creator

On the night of October 8-9, the 2024 channel premiered the HBO film "Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery", written by documentary filmmaker Cullen Hoback. The filmmakers named the developer hiding behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto as the creator of Bitcoin

All this time, according to the filmmakers, the developer Peter Todd was hiding under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

Peter Todd is a Canadian developer who has been actively involved in the development of Bitcoin since 2010. He is known as one of the key participants in the project. The developer has made significant contributions to the technical improvement of the BTC network. Among other things, he developed important improvement proposals, such as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 125 (BIP 125). Todd is also behind the Replace-by-Fee concept, which helped speed up the processing of cryptocurrency transactions.

Todd was also the founder of the OpenTimestamps project, which offers a standard format for timestamping data on the blockchain.

The developer has also been involved in several other blockchain projects, such as Counterparty, Mastercoin, and Zcash.