Peter Todd Says ‘I’m Not Satoshi’ But Not Everyone’s Buying That: ‘Just As Plausible’ As The Other Theories, Says Financial Journalist
After an HBO documentary identified Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), speculation beyond the cryptocurrency community abounds about the veracity of the claims.
What Happened: POLITICO’s Senior Finance Editor Izabella Kaminska argued in a reaction on social media platform X on Tuesday that the immediate dismissal of Todd as a potential Satoshi candidate by the crypto community may be premature.
She points out that many who are now ridiculing the documentary were recently convinced that Len Sassaman would be named Satoshi, demonstrating the community’s susceptibility to social engineering.
Addressing the criticism that Todd was too young to be Satoshi, Kaminska draws a parallel to Vitalik Buterin’s creation of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) at a young age, …
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