This is a revelation that could have the effect of a bombshell in the cryptocurrency community. In “Money Electric – The Bitcoin Mystery”, broadcast this night by the American pay channel HBO, director Cullen Hoback follows in the footsteps of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. His real identity, according to his findings: Peter Todd, a former Bitcoin developer. Interviewed in the documentary, the Canadian computer scientist nevertheless continued to deny it in front of the camera.
“If I were Satoshi, I would have destroyed my ability to prove it so that I would never have the temptation to do it,” he explains during an interview conducted in Latvia in a former World War II bunker . “But you’re not Satoshi?” » tries the director. “Oh no, I’m Satoshi, we’re all Satoshi,” replies this developer known for his sarcastic outings and for predicting…that Bitcoin would one day be worthless.
His name is unknown to the general public and even to specialists and other Bitcoiners because he did not appear in the list of people expected like Adam Back or Nick Szabo in the list of bets on the Polymarket site. He is historically the scientific director of the Bitcoin project from its very beginnings.
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As old as the first Bitcoin exchanges, the question of the progenitor of the reference cryptocurrency agitates the Internet and has been the subject of theories, outbursts and even lawsuits.
Satoshi Nakamoto had discreetly published on October 31, 2008 the “white paper” or the roadmap which laid the foundations of Bitcoin, based on Blockchain, this data storage and transmission technology which functions like an unfalsifiable and decentralized accounting book. He had succeeded in bringing together a community of cryptography and freedom enthusiasts called “cypherpunks”. In 2010, he stopped showing any signs of life.
In 2014, journalists from Newsweek magazine already thought they had found the inventor of the monetary system based on cryptography in California. But this former reclusive physicist of Japanese origin had flatly denied being at the origin of BTC.
