Peter Todd: The Bitcoin Developer HBO Claims Is Satoshi Nakamoto

Peter Todd, a leading cryptographer and creator of Bitcoin, was identified last year as Satoshi Nakamoto by HBO’s Money Electric: The Bitcoin Conspiracy documentary that debuted on October 2024. A long-time ecosystem contributor (starting in the earliest days of Bitcoin) Todd has been involved with a variety of blockchain and cryptographic projects. Todd, who has played a key role in the development of Bitcoin, vehemently denied being Nakamoto, telling Vocativ that it was “insane” to suggest he was the author of the paper and accusing filmmakers of not doing their homework.

Directed by Cullen Hoback, the HBO documentary points to a 2010 forum post in which Todd allegedly posted an answer to a BitcoinTalk thread then started by Nakamoto as evidence that he may be Nakamoto (though many believe the message was misinterpreted). Nevertheless, Todd — and quite a few professionals in the cryptocurrency environment this sort of as BitMEX Research — have refuted these arguments over the final yr to be purely circumstantial.

But while Todd has talked to Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator and has many of the technical abilities necessary to build bitcoin, he continues to be very careful not to take credit. Todd’s rejection reverberates other situations of famous individuals being recklessly suspected of being Nakamoto like Dorian Nakamoto and Craig Wright.(Crypto News Flash)​(Biztech)​(Cointelegraph).