“They’re on track to becoming the richest person on earth eventually.” Those are the words of Cullen Hoback, creator of a new HBO documentary (“Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery”) which purports to having perhaps uncovered the actual person behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” creator of Bitcoin.

If the new HBO film got it right, the relatively unknown software developer could be one of the richest people in the world.

Following HBO's "Money Electric" documentary that claims Canadian technologist Peter Todd is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, Todd flatly denied it.

HBO has hailed cryptographer Peter Todd as the creator of BitCoin, but he has denied the claims that he is the infamous Satoshi Nakamoto.

HBO documentary film maker Cullen Hoback has named Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer who has been involved with bitcoin since 2010, as who he believes to be the real-world identity of Satoshi

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Satoshi Nakamoto. That name has been driving the world crazy for over a decade now. Who is it? A single person? A group? A man? A woman? An American? A brilliant Japanese recluse? A government? No one knows.

Software developer Peter Todd has denied claims made in a recent HBO documentary suggesting he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin (BTC-USD), according to several media reports dated Wednesday.