In a recent HBO documentary called “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” director Cullen Hoback openly pointed to Canadian cryptographer and software engineer Peter Todd, accusing him of being the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Todd is, as he reports Wiredhas since gone underground, highlighting a more than decade-long hunt for the person who started Bitcoin — the individual believed to hold the keys to the potentially billion-dollar cryptocurrency.
Nakamoto, the mysterious pseudonym behind the person who is believed to have developed Bitcoin and wrote the white paper that introduced it nearly two decades ago, has sparked a lot of speculation about their true identity.
Todd denied the report, telling Wired that “for the record, I’m not Satoshi.”
“I think Cullen made the Satoshi accusation out of marketing,” he added. “He needed something to attract attention for his film.”
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Todd is just the latest person to be publicly accused of being Nakamoto.
But after being thrown into the limelight against his will, Todd has now decided to retire. Hoback, on the other hand, remains certain that he is Todd Nakamoto.
“While of course we can’t say outright that he’s Satoshi, I think we have a very strong case,” he told Wired.
There are many reasons why Todd could have decided to retire. Meredith Patterson, the widow of cryptographer Len Sassaman, who remains a popular candidate for Nakamoto, told the magazine about the abuse she experienced.
“People used to be very aggressive and feel privileged,” she said. “They came to me with a two-tiered list of dates and locations, asking me where I was at a certain time or place. Where did you get the right?”
“I was relieved for myself and my family when they appointed Peter Todd,” she added. “But I feel sorry for Peter Todd. Honestly, nobody deserves to have a target put on their back.”
Todd told Wired that he’s had dozens of people flood his inbox asking for money.
“Obviously, the false claim that ordinary people of ordinary wealth possess extraordinary wealth exposes them to threats like robbery and kidnapping,” he said. “Not only is that question stupid, it’s dangerous. Satoshi obviously didn’t want to be found, for good reasons, and no one should be helping people trying to find Satoshi.”
Hoback, however, sees Todd’s denial as a way to mislead those seeking Nakamoto’s true identity.
“It doesn’t surprise me at all that Peter would launch a counterattack,” he told Wired. “He’s a master of game theory – that’s what he does. He has spent many years now muddying the waters.”
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