HBO Documentary Says Peter Todd Is Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Since graduating with a degree in economics from the University of Birmingham in 2018, Joel has worked as a financial market/cryptocurrency analyst. He firmly believes that emerging crypto technology...
HBO’s just launched Bitcoin documentary, Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, was just released, and it names former Bitcoin developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator.
The documentary proposes evidence that suggests Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto, including that a 2010 post on BitcoinTalk by Satoshi Nakamoto was inadvertently made from Todd’s account, and that Todd had left a cryptic messages suggesting he had destroyed access to the 1.1 million BTC tokens held in Satoshi Nakamoto-linked wallets.
But Todd has already vehemently denied these accusations. Responding to leaks of parts of the HBO documentary prior to its release at 9pm Eastern Time, Todd told the press “I’m not Satoshi”.
“It’s ironic that a director who is also known for a documentary on QAnon has resorted to QAnon style coincidence-based conspiracy thinking here too,” he added.
Peter Todd is referring to filmmaker Cullen Hoback, who directed Money Electric, and previously identified the person behind the QAnon conspiracy theory in an earlier HBO series.
The crypto community has been instantly skeptical of HBO’s Satoshi Nakamoto claim.
X user PixOnChain debunks the “2010 BitcoinTalk post” claim, explaining that it probably wasn’t a follow-up comment from Satoshi accidentally made from Todd’s account.
"A 2010 BitcoinTalk post…"
HBO suggests that Peter Todd accidentally revealed himself as Satoshi by forgetting to switch accounts
A follow-up post a few minutes later would make sense, but one appearing 13 hours later seems more like a
