Peter Todd Is in Hiding After a Documentary Named Him as Bitcoin’s Creator

According to Peter Todd, an HBO documentary has turned his beingness into a nightmare. Money Electric aired connected the network earlier this period and named Todd arsenic Satoshi, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. Todd, who was the main quality of the documentary, denied helium was Satoshi and has told respective reporters since that the accusation has endangered his life.

In the documentary, writer Cullen Hoback explores the satellite of Bitcoin, tells its history, and interviews galore of the radical progressive successful its instauration and flourishing. The cardinal enigma of the cryptocurrency is its creator. Who was Satoshi? Many journalists person tried, and failed, implicit the years to enactment a look to the name.

Why does it matter? Knowing who Satoshi is could assistance explicate the motivations for the instauration of the currency. Hoback has insisted that knowing the person’s individuality is successful the nationalist interest. And past there’s the cash. Satoshi is the proprietor of an untouched Bitcoin wallet worthy billions of dollars.

“Obviously, falsely accusing idiosyncratic of having tens of billions of dollars puts them astatine hazard from robbery and kidnappings,” Todd told Bloomberg aft the documentary aired. “He’s putting my beingness astatine hazard to beforehand his movie.”

In consequent interviews with publications specified arsenic Wired and CNN, Todd has repeatedly denied that he’s Satoshi. Now, Todd tells Wired, he’s gone into hiding. After the documentary aired, his inbox was flooded with emails. A batch of them were radical asking for money. Todd said helium expects this is conscionable the mode it’s going to beryllium for the remainder of his life. “Not lone is the question dumb, it’s dangerous. Satoshi evidently didn’t privation to beryllium found, for bully reasons, and nary 1 should assistance radical trying to find Satoshi,” Todd told Wired.

Hoback’s grounds for Todd being Satoshi is beauteous thin and has been mostly rejected by the cryptocurrency community. Todd was astir and participating successful crypto forums astatine the clip of Bitcon’s creation. In December 2010, Satoshi was posting astir the cryptocurrency connected the forum BitcoinTalk. After making a mistake, Todd corrected him. For Hoback, it appeared arsenic if Todd had finished Satoshi’s sentence.

It doesn’t assistance that Todd, contempt repeated denials aft the documentary aired, stared straight astatine the camera and said “I americium Satoshi,” respective times successful the film. He ever said it with a grin connected his look and Todd is simply a known troll. It was meant arsenic a joke. His astir caller station connected X astir the contention is simply a retweet of a gag accusing Hoback of being Satoshi.

The documentary manager is evidently deflecting distant from the information that helium himself is Satoshi.

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Todd told Wired it was intolerable for him to person posted arsenic Satoshi astatine the clip due to the fact that helium was connected vacation. He gave the work pictures of himself from 2010 that allegedly contained metadata proving helium couldn’t beryllium the poster. “If I had really replied to myself by accident, the evident happening to bash would person been to conscionable wantonness that relationship and marque a caller one,” helium said.

Hoback said helium stands by the movie and believes Todd is Satoshi.