In summary
- Peter Todd, lead developer of Bitcoin Core, was accused in an HBO documentary of being Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Todd strongly denied the claims and has taken additional security measures to protect himself.
- Despite the attention, Todd has not been bothered in public and plans to attend several Bitcoin events in the coming weeks.
This has been an eventful month for Bitcoin Core lead developer Peter Todd, who was recently accused in a new HBO documentary of being the creator of Bitcoin, known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
Despite vigorously denying the claims, both on camera and off, Todd told Decrypt on Friday that being publicly labeled as the elusive genius who owns $74.4 billion in Bitcoin has forced him to protect himself even further.
“I’ve taken some safety measures,” Todd said. “But it’s not a good idea to say exactly what I’ve done publicly. “It’s best to keep the bad guys guessing.”
However, the first Bitcoin contributor added, it is certainly not hidden, nor has it been, as a recent Wired story suggested. In fact, Todd attended a Bitcoin conference in Lugano, Switzerland—where a statue honoring Nakamoto was unveiled—and says he plans to speak at five more events around the world in the coming weeks.
In short—and perhaps surprisingly—Todd says he has yet to be seen or bothered in public by anyone who recognized him from the HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” in which he appears.
“One thing that probably helped was my refusal to do audio/video interviews with any of the (many) journalists who asked me,” Todd said via email.
Notably, Todd is no stranger to public scrutiny. Although this is undoubtedly the most attention he has received as a possible candidate to be Satoshi, the Blockchain developer was involved with Bitcoin since its inception and it has previously been suggested that he could be responsible for secretly creating the world’s first Cryptocurrency.
Cullen Hoback, director of “Money Electric,” argued in his film that various circumstantial evidence pointed to Todd’s identity as Satoshi, including alleged similarities between the two individuals’ writing styles. Hoback claimed that Todd’s experiments as a teenager with the concept of digital currency were especially suspicious, as was a blog post Todd wrote that Hoback claims was accidentally made on the wrong account, and should have been posted by Satoshi. .
However, many in the crypto community were not convinced by those arguments. When Hoback presented them to Todd at the documentary’s climax, he immediately dismissed them as “absurd.”
After Todd rejected claims that he was in hiding this week, Hoback took to Twitter to argue that even that claim revealed the developer’s hidden, Machiavellian machination.
“Peter Todd tells Wired he’s gone into hiding,” Hoback posted. “Then he mocks Wired for continuing this narrative, making an appearance on stage today.”
“As its author ably wrote,” Hoback continued, quoting the Wired article. “‘Just as Todd’s trolling isolates him, it also exposes him.'”
Edited by Andrew Hayward
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