Polymarket bettors estimate a 60% chance that the upcoming HBO documentary will reveal Len Sassaman as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. By Bhushan Akolkar 1 day ago Updated 22 hours ago
Highlights
- The anticipation of Nakamoto’s identity has triggered a meme frenzy on social platforms, with users humorously predicting figures like Elon Musk.
- Evan Leung Hatch suggests that Len Sassaman’s suicide and contributions to PGP encryption point to him being Nakamoto.
- He notes that Sassaman left unfinished features and never touched his bitcoin, now worth over $60 billion.
Recently, the internet has been abuzz with talks about the pseudonymous Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto. Recent reports from Polymarket show that famous cypherpunk Len Sassaman, who committed suicide in 2011, is likely to be unmasked as the real Bitcoin creator in an HBO documentary, scheduled for release on Tuesday.
Satoshi Nakamoto Memes Flood the Internet
Bitcoin enthusiasts across the world have been waiting with absolute eagerness as they finally get to know the real identity behind the Bitcoin creator. However, this has triggered a meme-fest on social media platforms like X with everyone predicting Nakamoto, ahead of the HBO documentary on Bitcoin founder.
One user “naiive” depicts a black Elon Musk adding that if Netflix were to make a movie about the Bitcoin creator, they would show it like this. He’s probably taking a jibe at Reed Hastings, the Chairman of Netflix, who recently extended his support to Kamala Harris for the upcoming US Presidential Elections in 2024.
If Netflix made a movie about Satoshi Nakamoto pic.twitter.com/h33MECwx4A
— naiive (@naiivememe) October 4, 2024
Another tweet from the Satoshi Club showed that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is himself the Satoshi Nakamoto aka the Bitcoin creator.
🚨 BREAKING
HBO’s documentary has been leaked.
Satoshi Nakamoto is Vitalik Buterin. pic.twitter.com/kBUVLD0quO
— Satoshi Club (@esatoshiclub) October 4, 2024
Prediction markets platform PolyMarket recently conducted a poll about who’s the real identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto. Polymarket bettors are placing a 60% likelihood that HBO’s upcoming documentary will claim Len Sassaman, a late cryptographer and privacy advocate, as the real identity behind Bitcoin’s mysterious creator. The HBO documentary’s release could reignite debates surrounding Bitcoin’s origins and the true identity of its creator.
Courtesy: Polymarket
Who’s the Real Bitcoin Creator?
Evan Leung Hatch has put forward a popular theory that suggests why Len Sassaman is the real face behind Satoshi Nakamoto. He said that Sassaman’s suicide could be linked to Nakamoto’s final message posted just two months ahead of his death wherein he wrote: “I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future.”
Leung argues that Nakamoto left behind “a number of unfinished features” and never accessed his bitcoin (now valued at over $60 billion) following his sudden disappearance. He also highlights Sassaman’s contributions to PGP encryption and remailers, which he believes were crucial to Bitcoin’s development.
Many on the other hand have also been arguing that legendary software developer Hal Finney could also be the real identity behind Nakamoto. Finney passed away in 2014 and since then the Bitcoin community has been talking about him since he proposed the idea of having “20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million” in his thought experiment before the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Amid these developments, Satoshi-era Bitcoin whales have also been waking up to move their BTC to exchange, per the CoinGape report.
