Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says

Admission, however, is not necessarily a smoking gun. Todd, who is a vocal supporter of Ukraine and Israel on his X Feed, has been known to invoke the claim “I am Satoshi” as an expression of solidarity with the Creator's bid for secrecy. In an email to CoinDesk ahead of the documentary's release, Todd reportedly denied he was the Bitcoin creator: “Of course I'm not Satoshi,” he said.

If Todd is widely accepted as the creator of bitcoin, the revelation would end more than a decade of speculation about the identity of the man whose work sparked a global, multibillion-dollar craze for the digital currency: a craze that pushed back the boundaries of finance but also spread. Enabling fraud and other illegal activities.

Todd is no stranger to enthusiasts of stateless finance. As a long-time Bitcoin Core developer known for publicly communicating with “Satoshi” before his disappearance On crypto forums in 2010, his name always carried weight in the community. But he was rarely considered a prime suspect.

“He's one of the most important bitcoiners from a technical standpoint,” said Castle Island Ventures founding partner Nick Carter, who added that he's known Todd since 2017. “Generally speaking, people consider his opinion about Bitcoin very important.”

A 39-year-old graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Todd will be 23 when the famous Bitcoin white paper that laid out the vision for the first decentralized financial system is being completed.

Todd previously said in a podcast that he was about 15 years old when he first started interacting with crypto influencers, known as cypherpunks.