U.Today - Billy Markus, who is known on social media as Shibetoshi Nakamoto (a playful reference to Satoshi Nakamoto), and who built Dogecoin in collaboration with Jackson Palmer in 2013 based on the Bitcoin code, has named the person (and his friends) whom he believes to be the most likely Satoshi Nakamoto, who created Bitcoin.
Markus revealed it in a comment to his own tweet, where he stated that Peter Todd was named in the HBO documentary "Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery" as Satoshi. He openly stated that Todd, according to what he knows, did not create the BTC white paper.
Markus reveals "Satoshi" who passed away in 2014
Shibetoshi Nakamoto published a tweet, which stated: “It’s not Peter Todd bro” accompanied by a “Man facepalming” emoji.While responding to a comment of a DOGE fan about Markus’s educated guess as to who it might be, the Dogecoin creator said without hesitating, “Hal Finney and friends.” Hal Finney, a prominent software engineer, is known as the recipient of the very first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet. Sadly, Finney passed away in 2014 due to complications from ALS that had developed during the previous four years.
As for Peter Todd, who was interviewed for the documentary and who was named the most likely candidate for being Satoshi, Markus tweeted: “He’s one of the more OG core devs but not the creator.”
As reported earlier, Markus also wondered on Twitter if Bitcoin would crash after the Satoshi reveal that was going to be made in the documentary.
Peter Todd slams Satoshi documentary makers
As reported by U.Today, Peter Todd denied his being Satoshi not only now, after the HBO documentary was released today, but also many times in the past few years. He slammed the director of the film, Cullen Hoback, for putting his life in danger with that "irresponsible" documentary.The Bitcoin community has been sending critiques in the documentary's general direction for failing to present any substantial evidence that Todd was actually the person who stood behind the creation of Bitcoin.
Before the film was released, the candidate that was most bet on by users of the prediction platform Polymarket was Len Sassaman, a cryptographer who committed suicide in 2011 – several months after Satoshi posted on the BitcoinTalk forum that he was going to step away from BTC.