{"id":14368,"date":"2024-10-09T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14368"},"modified":"2024-10-09T01:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T01:29:37","slug":"bitcoin-documentary-money-electric-reopens-search-for-satoshi-nakamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14368","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Documentary \u2018Money Electric\u2019 Reopens Search for Satoshi Nakamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The identity of the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator has eluded sleuths for years. But does finding the real Mr. Nakamoto really matter?<\/p>\n

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There are two ambitious missions behind \u201cMoney Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,\u201d a new documentary by the filmmaker Cullen Hoback that was released Tuesday by HBO.<\/p>\n

The first is to solve one of the internet\u2019s great mysteries by revealing, at long last, the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous programmer who created Bitcoin in 2008.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s second mission is to make the case that the identity of Bitcoin\u2019s creator actually matters \u2014 that Bitcoin, for all its flaws, represents an important technological breakthrough with far-reaching implications, and that there are good reasons, aside from prurience, to care who created it.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the first part. Among Bitcoin buffs and cryptocurrency journalists, the mystery of Mr. Nakamoto\u2019s identity has been the subject of fierce debate and painstaking investigation for more than a decade. But nothing has been proved conclusively, and a handful of bungled attempts to crack the case \u2014 most notoriously a 2014 Newsweek cover story<\/a> that put the blame on a physicist, Dorian Nakamoto, who turned out to have nothing to do with Bitcoin at all \u2014 have only muddied the waters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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(My former colleague Nathaniel Popper suggested that Nick Szabo, who created a digital currency with similarities to Bitcoin, was most likely Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2015, but Mr. Szabo has denied it<\/a>, and no conclusive evidence has emerged.)<\/p>\n

Mr. Hoback, who spent years diving down the rabbit hole of the QAnon conspiracy theory for his last film, \u201cQ: Into the Storm,\u201d took a similarly exhaustive approach this time. He and a camera crew spent three years flying around the world interviewing early Bitcoin contributors, following digital breadcrumbs buried in ancient message board posts and piecing together the evidence.<\/p>\n

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The identity of the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator has eluded sleuths for years. But does finding the real Mr. Nakamoto really matter?There are two ambitious missions behind \u201cMoney Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,\u201d a new documentary by the filmmaker Cullen Hoback that was released Tuesday by HBO.The first is to solve one of the internet\u2019s great mysteries by revealing, at long last, the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous programmer who created Bitcoin in 2008.The film\u2019s second mission is to make the case that the identity of Bitcoin\u2019s creator actually matters \u2014 that Bitcoin, for all its flaws, represents an important technological breakthrough with far-reaching implications, and that there are good reasons, aside from prurience, to care who created it.Let\u2019s start with the first part. Among Bitcoin buffs and cryptocurrency journalists, the mystery of Mr. Nakamoto\u2019s identity has been the subject of fierce debate and painstaking investigation for more than a decade. But nothing has been proved conclusively, and a handful of bungled attempts to crack the case \u2014 most notoriously a 2014 Newsweek cover story that put the blame on a physicist, Dorian Nakamoto, who turned out to have nothing to do with Bitcoin at all \u2014 have only muddied the waters.(My former colleague Nathaniel Popper suggested that Nick Szabo, who created a digital currency with similarities to Bitcoin, was most likely Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2015, but Mr. Szabo has denied it, and no conclusive evidence has emerged.)Mr. Hoback, who spent years diving down the rabbit hole of the QAnon conspiracy theory for his last film, \u201cQ: Into the Storm,\u201d took a similarly exhaustive approach this time. He and a camera crew spent three years flying around the world interviewing early Bitcoin contributors, following digital breadcrumbs buried in ancient message board posts and piecing together the evidence.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14370,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14371,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions\/14371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}