CNN —The identity of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has long been one of the biggest mysteries of the internet age.
Yet the man that director Cullen Hoback’s film names as the 2009 founder of bitcoin is denying he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
“For the record, I’m not Satoshi,” Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer, told CNN in a statement.
Hoback’s evidence includes a 2010 bitcoin message board post from Todd that he concludes was written by Satoshi Nakamoto.
I gave Peter Todd every opportunity to contradict the claims, to explain the claims.
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