Popular movie streaming service HBO premiered a highly anticipated Documentary yesterday that has set the global crypto space raging with speculations.
The HBO Documentary titled “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” for many weeks promised to solve the biggest mystery in the crypto space which is the identity of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
The Documentary was highly anticipated among global crypto circles before its release with some analysts claiming the information revealed by the HBO documentary could change the industry as we know it.
The HBO documentary which aired yesterday ended up pointing at a certain Peter Todd as the mystery man behind the Satoshi Nakamoto Pseud0nym and the creator of the largest crypto asset by market capitalization.
This revelation has met several backlash and doubt from the crypto community who criticized the HBO reveal for lacking serious proof.
Peter Todd, the man in the heat of the moment has come out to deny that he is Satoshi Nakamoto giving more credence to the naysayers on the much-awaited HBO reveal.
Who Is Peter Todd?
Peter Todd was born and raised in Canada and is a known Bitcoin core developer and cryptographer who gained recognition for his contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Peter was among the earliest developers who worked with Satoshi on the Bitcoin project. He was among the earliest contributors to the Bitcoin Codebase and had direct contact with Hal Finney and Adam Back, two prominent Bitcoin pioneers.
Since his role in the early days of Bitcoin, Peter has worked on other projects including Bitcoin Core Developer at Coinkite since 2014 and serving as Chief Scientist at Master Coin and Dark Wallet.
Why did HBO claim Peter Todd is Satoshi?
The HBO documentary claimed Peter Todd was Satoshi Nakamoto based on their research and findings. According to the documentary HBO pointed to a mistaken reply in 2010 when Todd accidentally responded to a post that Satoshi Nakamoto had started on the Bitcoin talk forum using his own account. However, this observation was quickly seen as circumstantial, lacking the concrete proof needed to link Todd to Satoshi.
Other proof highlighted by the HBO documentary includes Peter Todd implementing the features discussed in his conversation with Satoshi and both characters using British Canadian spellings.
All these theories raised by HBO were all seen as circumstantial and lacking concrete proof linking Peter Todd to Satoshi Nakamoto.
Despite the HBO documentary and its reveal, the Mystery of who Satoshi Nakamoto still remains largely unsolved as a large chunk of the global crypto community did not buy the Peter Todd theory sold by HBO.
What to Know
- Satoshi Nakamoto is the anonymous founder of Bitcoin and the earliest pioneer of cryptocurrency as a concept. He launched the Bitcoin white paper and laid the groundwork for what became an important aspect of the fourth industrial revolution.
- Peter Todd has repeatedly denied that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto long before the movie was released.
