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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
CNN — The identity of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has long been one of the biggest mysteries of the internet age. A new HBO documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” claims to have an answer. Yet the man that director Cullen Hoback’s film names as the 2009 founder of bitcoin is denying he is Satoshi Nakamoto. “For the record, I’m not Satoshi,” Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer, told CNN in a statement. Todd accused the film of being “irresponsible” and putting his life in danger. “Cullen is grasping for straws here,” said Todd, who claimed he was not approached by HBO in the run-up to the film’s release and was not offered a chance to screen the film before it aired Tuesday night. “He is playing up a few coincidences into something much more. Ironic really: that’s a hallmark of conspiracy thinking.” A spokesperson for HBO did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. HBO, like CNN, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. However, the films’ director told CNN he is unsurprised by Todd’s denial and he remains confident in his documentary’s conclusion. “Peter was there that day (in which he was interviewed for the film). He knows what was discussed. He had every opportunity to explain himself,” Hoback told CNN in a statement. Speculation around bitcoin’s anonymous creator has led to countless theories. Just who is this person — or people — who coded bitcoin and then disappeared off the face of the internet in 2013, just as it exploded in value? Further fueling the mystery are the billions of dollars of bitcoin that are supposedly under Nakamoto’s control. Hoback said he spent years tracking down the various theories for Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity before finally settling on Todd. Hoback’s evidence includes a 2010 bitcoin message board post from Todd that he concludes was written by Satoshi Nakamoto. Solving the great internet mysteries has become a calling card for director Hoback, whose prior claim to fame was potentially unmasking Q, the man behind QAnon in the HBO series “Q: Into The Storm.” CNN sat down with Hoback, prior to
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