Did an HBO Documentary Just Reveal Satoshi's True Identity?

The Breakdown

Nathaniel Whittemore

Investing, Business

4.8 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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One of the great mysteries of the modern age is the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. This year, we got a definitive court judgement that it was not Craig Wright (which any bitcoiner could have told you). Now, we get a new documentary from HBO that advances a new, fairly surprising theory. What do you think? Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi with ExSat The exSat Network aims to unlock and scale the Bitcoin ecosystem without compromising Bitcoins Ideology. The network has partnered with the largest mining pools in the world, major custodians and exchanges, Cefu, Cubolt, Matrixport, Copper, OKX and aims to have over $200M TVL at mainnet launch on the 23rd of October. Follow exSat’s Twitter to stay up to date @exsatnetwork or visit the testnet exsat.network Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribe to the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:09.2	It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world.
0:18.4	What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, October 9th, and today we are revealing the true
0:22.7	identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Maybe. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying
0:28.0	the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to
0:31.7	dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the
0:35.5	show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, today we are kicking off with a spoiler alert. Last night, HBO aired
0:43.7	their Satoshi documentary, which was advertised as revealing the Bitcoin founder's true
0:47.7	identity. Now, if you want to watch the show with no spoilers, skip ahead. But heading into last
0:52.7	night, there was rampant speculation on what would be revealed.
0:55.6	Peter Hoback, the show's director, said he would be presenting a novel theory that presumably
0:59.9	ruled out the usual suspects like Adam Back and Paul Aruh.
1:03.4	Late last week, there were discussions the documentary would present the case that
1:06.4	deceased hacker Len Sassiman is Satoshi.
1:09.1	Many, many people thought that that was the leading candidate, but his widow nixed that
1:13.0	idea and comments to DL News yesterday.
1:15.4	With the leading candidate taken off the board, prediction markets focused on smart
1:18.7	contract pioneer Nick Sabo as the best possibility.
1:21.9	Still, generally, markets had no idea, with the other slash multiple category taking
1:25.8	the majority of the bets.
1:27.2	It turns out, drum roll please, that the show's director believes that Peter Todd is Satoshi.
1:33.4	Todd was a prominent Bitcoin core contributor dating back to 2010. At the time of Bitcoin's creation,
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