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HBO reveals Satoshi, people betting on Sassaman

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12 months ago

October 4, 2024

“Who is Satoshi Nakamoto”, a query that has occurred to each Bitcoin fanatic, will get a solution in keeping with hypothesis among the community. HBO has launched a trailer for its documentary referred to as ‘Cash Electrical’, which is able to air on October 8, 2024. Folks, not solely from the crypto group, but in addition from the information media, have been wanting ahead to this reply for years. The creator of Bitcoin has at all times been recognized by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Is he a single individual or a gaggle of individuals, is he alive or is he useless, there are lots of questions surrounding this subject.

HBO Documentary Claims It Might Have Uncovered Bitcoin Creator’s True Identification. A decentralized prediction market has began betting on this subject and has given individuals sixteen choices to wager on. At present, Len Sassaman leads the bidding with a 53% likelihood of being Satoshi in keeping with bidders.

Len Sassaman was an American technologist who labored in cryptography all his life. He labored as a safety architect and senior methods engineer for Anonymizer, an Web privateness firm. He at all times advocated using cryptography and privacy-enhancing applied sciences. In response to his spouse, he took his personal life in 2011. This time coincides with Satoshi’s disappearance from the Web.

For a really lengthy time frame, crypto researchers believed that Hal Finney was the creator of Bitcoin. He made an preliminary contribution to the Bitcoin mission. He was the one who obtained the primary Bitcoin transaction from the nameless Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Like Sassaman, Finney additionally touched on the problems related to on-line privateness and centralization.

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It’s stated that Finney lived in the identical metropolis as Satoshi Nakamoto for ten years and this was one of many explanation why researchers believed he was the creator of Bitcoin. He did deny these claims. Hal Finney died ten years in the past in August 2014 attributable to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often known as motor neurone illness. His physique was cryopreserved within the hope that resurrection can be potential sooner or later.

Solely 4 days till HBO airs the documentary and it could be very attention-grabbing to see who they assume is the Bitcoin creator. Or will the documentary, like crypto individuals, say: “We’re all Satoshi”.