• Movie director, Cullen Hoback, factors to Peter Todd as Bitcoin's inventor
• Hoback depends on a 2010 net discussion board publish during which Todd responded to one in all Satoshi's publish
• Todd factors out that he's Satoshi “as is everybody else”

HBO's newest documentary has named Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor behind Bitcoin.

“Cash Electrical: The Bitcoin Thriller,” directed by Cullen Hoback, examines Bitcoin's early days and a few of its key figures. Utilizing outdated and new clues, Hoback confronts Todd and Blockstream founder Adam Again with the proof, in line with a report from Politico.

In the course of the documentary's finale when confronted with a query from Hoback, Todd mentioned: “Yeah, I'm Satoshi Nakamoto.” That is removed from being a confession, although, as Todd additionally mentioned he was Craig Wright.

Hoback's reasoning behind Todd being Bitcoin's creator lies in a 2010 net discussion board publish during which Todd responded to one in all Satoshi's posts. In response to Hoback, Todd's publish is a continuation of Satoshi's that was mistakenly despatched from Todd's account reasonably than Satoshi's.

The movie director cited one other clue, during which Todd wrote in a weblog publish that he was “most likely the world's main knowledgeable” on learn how to sacrifice Bitcoin, including that he had “accomplished one such sacrifice”. In response to Hoback, this was an admission that Todd had sacrificed his skill to entry Bitcoin.

Not a confession

Todd's admission is certainly not concrete proof that the Canadian developer is the cryptocurrency's inventor.

Todd is well-known for saying the phrase “I’m Satoshi,” In actual fact, throughout a 2019 interview in “What Bitcoin Did,” with podcast host Peter McCormack, Todd mentioned, “I’m Satoshi, as is everybody else.”

Forward of the documentary's launch, Todd denied he was Satoshi after it was leaked on-line. Following its launch, Todd took to social media once more to disclaim he was Satoshi after somebody known as him out, writing, “I'm not Satoshi.”

In the course of the documentary, Todd mentioned to Hoback after he offered his idea: “That is going to be very humorous whenever you put this into the documentary and a bunch of bitcoiners watch it.”

Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Bitcoin firm Casa, wrote on X that “wherever Satoshi could also be, I prefer to suppose they're having fun at this newest spherical of foolishness.”