HBO’s documentary claimed that Satoshi Nakamoto was Canadian developer Peter Todd. Todd flatly denied the allegations.
‘Destroying Bitcoins’ claim
One of the most important details in the documentary is based on a message from Todd. Here Todd describes himself as an expert in ‘sacrificing Bitcoins’. The documentary sees this as Satoshi’s destruction of his own BTC. So according to the documentary, Todd deliberately cut off his access to more than 1 million BTC belonging to Satoshi. This shows that Satoshi is actually Todd. It is known that Satoshi’s BTCs have not moved in any way for years.
“He used two different accounts”
One of the remarkable claims was that Todd had a ‘bitcointalk’ account on behalf of both himself and Satoshi. In the documentary, it was suggested that Todd wrote articles on behalf of both himself and Satoshi in 2010, without using his official name (under the name John Dillon). Even according to HBO; In one of his messages, Todd sent the answer that should have come from Satoshi from the Dillon account. The fact that both accounts ended their messages in similar periods was among the details of the documentary.
HBO’s documentary also included information that both Satoshi and Todd wrote in Canadian and British English. Bnezer claims are also put forward for Adam Back, who has been British for years. Back also persistently denies that he is Satoshi.
“He did it to be taken seriously”
Cullen Hobak, the producer, also included his own words in the documentary on the subject. Hobak interpreted Todd’s choice of the name Satoshi as follows:
‘There is a desire to be taken seriously under the name Satoshi. He didn’t want anyone to know that a student was behind it. He didn’t want to be relegated to schoolboy status.’
Peter Todd was a fine arts student in his 20s in 2008. Satoshi also released the Bitcoin whitepaper that year.
Hobak also claimed that Todd brought the feature of getting ahead in the transaction by paying a higher transaction fee, but introduced it under another person’s name. Hobak sat across from both Todd and Adam Back in the documentary and said:
‘I think what happened was this. You opened the John Dillon account so you had a reason to initiate the transaction fee payment. You actually thought about it years ago. But you didn’t want to show it. You pretended that someone else suggested it. You also had to cover up the erroneous message in 2010.’
Hobak refers here to the aforementioned claim that he ‘mistakenly wrote it from Satoshi’s account’ and that Todd was trying to cover up his mistake in 2015 when he wrote the transaction fee development from John Dillon’s account.
“It would be really funny”
Todd also denied that he used the account named John Dillon and said to Hobak in the documentary, “If you put this in the documentary, it would be funny and ridiculous. A group of Bitcoiners will also watch this. It would be really funny.”
“No, it’s not me.”
After the release of the documentary, producer Hobak said from the X account, “Todd, instead of saying sarcastic words, can make a statement from the X account and say that he is not Satoshi.”
Todd responded to this tweet by saying, “I am not Satoshi.”
Bailey: Embarrassing for HBO
David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Magazine and one of the people who played a leading role in the meeting of Bitcoin miner companies with Donald Trump, said, ‘Todd is a great person, but the probability of being Satoshi is 0%… It’s really embarrassing for HBO…’
While there have been many claims about the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto for years, these people; Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Adam Back, Wei Dai and Len Sassaman came to the fore. Sassaman (2011) and Finney (2014) lost their lives.