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Author: Stephen Katte, CoinTelegraph; Compiled by: Deng Tong, Bitchain Vision
HBO’s documentaryMoney Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery》 identified Peter Todd as the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
The 39-year-old Canadian is known for his long-term contributions as a core Bitcoin developer, consultant and other crypto and blockchain software developers.
Still, Todd denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto before and after the documentary premiere and posted bluntly on X, “I’m not Satoshi Nakamoto.”
BitMEX Research said in an Oct. 8 X post that some of the evidence presented in the documentary pointing to Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto is “apparently ridiculous” and that “no reason” to believe it.
Source: BitMEX Research
He is one of the few who publicly communicated with Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin code and features before he disappeared in 2011.These exchanges constitute some of the so-called evidence presented by documentary producer Cullen Hoback, proving that Todd may have been Satoshi Nakamoto.
When Satoshi Nakamoto first released his Bitcoin white paper, Todd was about 23, which outlined the vision of a decentralized peer-to-peer payment system.
In a 2019 podcast, Todd said he began talking to early Bitcoin contributor Hal Finney and Hashcash inventor Adam Back when he was about 15 years old.
Todd has been a Bitcoin core developer for Bitcoin platform Coinkite since July 2014 and has been a board consultant to Verisart, a digital collectibles platform, since 2015.
In 2001, he served as a Starnix developer for Linux System Support and Services for three months and held various other short-term positions between 2007 and 2008.
The same year the Bitcoin white paper was released, Todd began working as an electronics designer at Gedex Inc.
He has held senior positions in the crypto industry since 2014, including Mastercoin, a digital currency and communications protocol based on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Todd is also the chief scientist of Dark Wallet, an open source Bitcoin wallet, who has also held this position since 2014.
In 2016, he attended Zcash’s trusted setup ceremony, helping to set up encryption keys for protecting wallets and blockchain protocols.He later called his involvement “meaningless” because he believed that “Zcash trusted settings should not be called multi-party computing.”
In 2019, cryptographer Isis Lovecruft accused Todd of sexual assault on her, a charge he denied and filed a defamation lawsuit against Lovecruft the same year.
The case was settled in 2020, the lawsuit was dropped and there was no monetary compensation, but Lovecruft issued a statement clarifying that Todd had never sexually assaulted her.
