In October 2024, Peter Todd, known as a Bitcoin developer in a quiet town in Canada, was shocked to learn from a message from a friend about a startling fact. HBO's new documentary "Digital Currency: The Mystery of Bitcoin" claimed that Todd himself is the founder of Bitcoin, "Satoshi Nakamoto."
Sudden suspicions and industry reactions
The director of this documentary, Karen Hobeck, cited Todd's technical background, the presence of his economist father, and his contributions to the early Bitcoin community as "evidence," concluding that Todd, who was 23 at the time, was the anonymous genius programmer Satoshi Nakamoto.
This announcement shocked the cryptocurrency industry. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is linked to Bitcoin in 2008.