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Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says
A new HBO documentary identifies Canadian developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of cryptocurrency bitcoin. Cullen Hoback, the award-winning filmmaker behind the documentary, comes to the conclusion by stitching together old clues and new ones, and then confronting both Todd and Blockstream founder Adam Back, another key Satoshi suspect, with the evidence. “It seems like you had these deep insights into bitcoin at the time?" Hoback puts to Todd in the film's finale. “Well, yeah, I'm Satoshi Nakamoto,” Todd replies. The admission, however, is not necessarily a smoking gun. Todd, who ... (full story)