The cryptocurrency community is thriving. The documentary Money Electric – The Bitcoin Mysterybroadcast the night of October 8 to 9 on HBO, claims to reveal the identity of Satoshi Nakamotothe mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Directed by Cullen Hobackthe film suggests that Nakamoto would actually be Peter Todda pioneering Canadian developer of Bitcoin.
Peter Todd, alias Satoshi Nakamoto ?
Interviewed in the documentary, Peter Todd categorically denies being the creator of Bitcoin. “If I were Satoshi,” he speculates during an interview conducted in a former bunker in Latvia, “I would have destroyed all evidence allowing this to be affirmed, so as to never be tempted to reveal it.” To the question: “But you are not Satoshi?” » he answers no without a certain dose of sarcasm: “Oh yes, I’m Satoshi. We are all Satoshi. »
Osama Ammar: “We’ll see if I go to prison”
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Peter who?
Little known to the general public, Peter Todd was not considered a likely candidate to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Unlike names like Adam Back or Nick SzaboTodd was not on the suspect lists. Yet he played a crucial role in the early days of Bitcoin, as an engineer. On the social network He mocks and seems to question the director’s skills.
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The Satoshi Nakamoto Mystery
Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2008, the identity of its founder has remained a mystery. On October 31, 2008, the famous “white paper”, which describes the basics of Bitcoin and Blockchain, a decentralized and tamper-proof information storage and transmission technology, was put online by a certain Satoshi Nakamoto. His past or his face are unknown and absent from the internet. In 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto mysteriously disappeared, leaving the Bitcoin community to speculate about his identity. Some also think that it is a collective identity. In 2014, the magazine Newsweek had already tried to reveal his identity, by naming a former Californian physicist of Japanese origin as the creator of Bitcoin, but he had denied these allegations. More than 15 years after the appearance of Bitcoin, the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains an unanswered question. Not sure that this documentary is enough to dispel doubts.
