Upcoming HBO documentary claims to identify Satoshi Nakamoto identity

[Lucius]

I guess we’ll finally find out if Satoshi is a genius coder or just a really good magician! 🎩✨ If it turns out to be Len Sassaman, I hope he’s ready for a lifetime of “Are you Satoshi?” questions at every family gathering!

You are taking baby steps in the wrong direction - read other people's posts before you write something. In the post from @TomPluz (+1) it is clearly written (with a link) that LS died in the middle of 2011.


@Freemind, if you read that topic, then maybe you also read my post - however, believing the information that LS died only two months after Satoshi wrote his last post on BTT, I assumed that with regard to other information that exists regarding Satoshi's private communication - > Gavin Andersen (April 26, 2011) LS can't be Satoshi. However, considering that LS died a few months after that, it is a possible candidate to be Satoshi.

Of course, assuming that someone is Satoshi is one thing, and proving it is something else entirely. If it is true that LS left computers that were completely encrypted, then no one will be able to reliably prove anything so soon.

[target]

Len Sassaman woukd have to.prove and sign message to old wallets.
Hes going for a wild ride of his life but anything coukd happen already in this wierd times.

There ha e been theories BTC was created by the government since it appearse after 2008 financial crisis and the gvernment has to  create a new economic market to save its ass for the coming collapse. So if its Sassaman, he probably is a government planted.

Kraken exchange should know the guy because recently they recieve BTC from wallet created back in 2008.

[Cantsay]

Len Sassaman woukd have to.prove and sign message to old wallets.
Hes going for a wild ride of his life but anything coukd happen already in this wierd times.

The post above yours already stated that LS is no longer alive, so how do you expect the signing of the message from an old wallet address to work?

8th is not that far again, let’s just wait and see what type of theory they’ll come up with in the documentary and also who they’ll point as being Satoshi.

[Z-tight]

It is easy to get publicity when you use the crypto community, even Donald Trump has made BTC a part of his campaign strategy and it has worked for him. We all know HBO isn't going to reveal Satoshi to us, they cannot do that because they do not know who Satoshi is, but this is good PR for them, and it has worked because a lot of people have been talking about this.

[Freemind]

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@Freemind, if you read that topic, then maybe you also read my post - however, believing the information that LS died only two months after Satoshi wrote his last post on BTT, I assumed that with regard to other information that exists regarding Satoshi's private communication - > Gavin Andersen (April 26, 2011) LS can't be Satoshi. However, considering that LS died a few months after that, it is a possible candidate to be Satoshi.

Of course, assuming that someone is Satoshi is one thing, and proving it is something else entirely. If it is true that LS left computers that were completely encrypted, then no one will be able to reliably prove anything so soon.

Correct, and that was precisely what I was looking for a few minutes ago, more specific dates. Also taking into account what theymos have said in BTT, it is very likely that LS is not Satoshi, we must remember that he was one of the last people with whom Satoshi spoke "publicly" and take the emails into account.

My opinion remains the same, I don't think Len Sassaman is Satoshi. Now I will ask a question to all the users of the forum.

Doesn't anyone find it strange that HBO (or any streaming platform) is releasing a documentary about Satoshi, focusing on a person who died?. I hope someone understands where I'm going...

[Stompix]

Len Sassaman woukd have to.prove and sign message to old wallets.
Hes going for a wild ride of his life but anything coukd happen already in this wierd times.

Yeah, before that go and grab the elixir of life because the guy has been dead for 13 years!

Kraken exchange should know the guy because recently they recieve BTC from wallet created back in 2008.

How could someone send coins from a wallet created in 2008 when the genesis block was mined in 2009?

[dkbit98]

Everyone preparing for another big nothingburger documentary reveal 

Len Sassaman woukd have to.prove and sign message to old wallets.
Hes going for a wild ride of his life but anything coukd happen already in this wierd times.

Dude.... 
Len Sassaman has been dead for 13 years.
Simple search of his name would told you that he committed a suicide in 2011.

[ABCbits]

Kraken exchange should know the guy because recently they recieve BTC from wallet created back in 2008.

How could someone send coins from a wallet created in 2008 when the genesis block was mined in 2009?

It's possible he mistook year of genesis block mined with date of Bitcoin whitepaper. Although Kraken exchange was founded in 2011.

Everyone preparing for another big nothingburger documentary reveal 

I'm not sure what you mean by preparing. But IMO some people just want to laugh at HBO, assuming they nominate someone as Satoshi with no or weak proof.

[Lucius]

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@Freemind, if you read that topic, then maybe you also read my post - however, believing the information that LS died only two months after Satoshi wrote his last post on BTT, I assumed that with regard to other information that exists regarding Satoshi's private communication - > Gavin Andersen (April 26, 2011) LS can't be Satoshi. However, considering that LS died a few months after that, it is a possible candidate to be Satoshi.

Of course, assuming that someone is Satoshi is one thing, and proving it is something else entirely. If it is true that LS left computers that were completely encrypted, then no one will be able to reliably prove anything so soon.

Correct, and that was precisely what I was looking for a few minutes ago, more specific dates. Also taking into account what theymos have said in BTT, it is very likely that LS is not Satoshi, we must remember that he was one of the last people with whom Satoshi spoke "publicly" and take the emails into account.

My opinion remains the same, I don't think Len Sassaman is Satoshi. Now I will ask a question to all the users of the forum.

Doesn't anyone find it strange that HBO (or any streaming platform) is releasing a documentary about Satoshi, focusing on a person who died?. I hope someone understands where I'm going...

I don't find it strange that any streaming platform deals with any topics that have to do with famous and deceased people - because people are intrigued by such things and that obviously increases viewership. I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but maybe in the direction that if Satoshi is dead then we shouldn't be afraid that he will appear one day and dump his 1+ million BTC - or maybe after tonight some people will claim that BTC is a project of a crazy man who eventually committed suicide.

Be that as it may, today I read an article in which the LS widow says that she does not think that her late husband was Satoshi - noting that no one even contacted her about the documentary in question. There are more interesting details in the article that will probably be part of the documentary.

Sassaman who died in 2011, isn’t Satoshi, says his widow, Meredith L Patterson. And HBO never even approached her when making the documentary, she told DL News, “which is the strangest thing about all this to me.” ... The suggestion that Sassaman could be Satoshi Nakamoto is not a new one. When similar claims circulated in 2022, Patterson refuted them, emphasising that Sassaman was “a Mac user.” Early Bitcoin development was focused on Linux, and Satoshi had to ask for help building the MacOS version, which is the operating system used by Apple devices like the MacBook. ... Another intriguing detail that fuels the speculation: a reference found in Satoshi’s writings to an obscure academic conference that took place in 1999 near the Belgian city of Leuven — the same city where Sassaman later earned his PhD. Sassaman did not list this conference among those he attended, and its proceedings were likely accessible online.

[Findingnemo]

I watched the trailer and it's kind of jumping all over the place and my best guess they are going to show the profile of Satoshi on Bitcointalk and nothing else.

Even though it seems a stunt to make people to subscribe it will reach more places who already subscribed and their clips surely will be going viral all over the media so it could help with the adoption.

[electronicash]

its not even someone that people have already been speculating to be Satoshi such as Hal Finney or Adam Back or Nick Szabo. what would the effect of this documentary to Craig Wright and his believers? 

i haven't watched it yet nor read the article about this discovery but my speculation is that if they are going to verify whether he is the real Satoshi, should they be finding out whether he kept some private keys on the wallets from genesis?

[bhadz]

I don't have to watch the docu of HBO about satoshi nakamoto because it's for sure that they don't have any leads who's the real one. The one that they have revealed isn't even convinced himself that he's satoshi. 

its not even someone that people have already been speculating to be Satoshi such as Hal Finney or Adam Back or Nick Szabo. what would the effect of this documentary to Craig Wright and his believers? 

i haven't watched it yet nor read the article about this discovery but my speculation is that if they are going to verify whether he is the real Satoshi, should they be finding out whether he kept some private keys on the wallets from genesis?

Their lead isn't even known by the community. Whoever are their researchers, they need to do better but still good job for making a content and making everyone curious about it but lacks convincing theories and facts.

[God Of Thunder]

I don't have to watch the docu of HBO about satoshi nakamoto because it's for sure that they don't have any leads who's the real one. The one that they have revealed isn't even convinced himself that he's satoshi. 

Now, Peter Todd even accused HBO of putting his life in danger. I was reading a article right now about it and as it says;

“For the record, I’m not Satoshi,” Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer, told CNN in a statement. Todd accused the film of being “irresponsible” and putting his life in danger.^[1]

There is no real reason For Peter Todd to deny that he is not Satoshi. He could have said that he do not have access to his wallets anymore and he does not have control of those Bitcoin. He simply decided not to lie about it. A lot of Faketoshies tried to prove themself as Satoshi while a honest guy denied that he is not Satoshi.

[1] ‘I am not Satoshi Nakamoto’: Subject of HBO documentary denies he invented bitcoin

[Lucius]

@Learn Bitcoin, whoever the real Satoshi is, he definitely has a reason to remain anonymous as he has been until now. Todd would have done himself a lot more damage if he had confessed, not to mention that revealing the identity of the real Satoshi would only have negative consequences for BTC.

Of course, I'm not suggesting that Todd is who some "geniuses" think he is, but I just want to say that none of the living people who are suspected of being Satoshi will ever admit it, because none of them want such "fame".

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[Stompix]

There is no real reason For Peter Todd to deny that he is not Satoshi. He could have said that he do not have access to his wallets anymore and he does not have control of those Bitcoin. He simply decided not to lie about it.

Do you believe that guys who think he is Satoshi with this little proof and are prepared to harm him for his coins would also believe him if he says he is Satoshi but he has lost his wallet? Remember the $5 wrench, don't you think there are a ton of guys who would think, well he admitted he is Satoshi, we isk a few years in jail if we get caught but let's see if beating him to a pulp won't make him remember where those 60 billions are!