Will HBO documentary unveil Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto?
New HBO documentary, Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, will debut this Tuesday on HBO’s internet streaming and TV stations, and according to reports, it will reveal the identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
According to Politico Europe’s senior finance editor, Izabella Kaminska, Satoshi will be named by the documentary’s producer and director, Cullen Hoback.
Naturally, the news of the long-awaited unmasking sparked fierce debate within the Bitcoin community, and a number of well-known figures, including Galaxy’s Alex Thorn, weighed in with their opinions on Satoshi’s real identity.
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Satoshi mined many of Bitcoin’s earliest rewards on a personal computer and is thought to own over 1.1 million of the 19.8 million circulating coins.
While specific details about the supposed upcoming revelation are scarce, if the claims are true, it could have an instantaneous and major impact on the entire crypto industry.
HBO documentary joins long history of Bitcoin conspiracies
Of course, many people are skeptical of the claim that a documentarian with a QAnon filmography credit to his name has somehow solved one of the most important mysteries in modern finance.
Throughout the years, speculators have put forward countless names of people they suspect of being Satoshi. These have included Nick Szabo, Len Sassaman, Hal Finney, Adam Back, David Schwartz, Dorian Nakamoto, John Nash, Wei Dai, David Orel, Dave Kleiman, Paul Le Roux, and Tatsuaki Okamoto.
Guesses even include groups of people like the US Central Intelligence Agency.
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