Len Sassaman, a well-known cypherpunk who dedicated suicide in 2011, is, in response to Polymarket, the most definitely candidate to be unmasked as the actual Satoshi Nakamoto by a brand new HBO documentary, attributable to air this coming Tuesday.
Sassaman, a well known privateness advocate and cryptography specialist, carried out research for Pc Safety and Industrial Cryptography and co-founded an annual convention for software program hackers.
A preferred principle put ahead by Evan Leung Hatch means that Sassaman could also be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator and that his suicide may very well be linked to Nakamoto’s ultimate message posted two months beforehand. It learn, “I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future.”
Leung causes that Nakamoto left “a slew of uncompleted features” and by no means touched his bitcoin (price greater than $60 billion right now) earlier than his abrupt disappearance. He additionally factors to Sassaman’s work on PGP encryption and remailers, each of which he claims are key to Bitcoin’s growth.
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His principle even checked out Sassaman’s sample of late-night tweets and in contrast them to Satoshi’s late-night posts and code alterations.
This speculation appears sufficient for Polymarket punters and Sassaman has been given a 47% probability of being revealed as Nakamoto in HBO’s documentary. Early Bitcoin contributor and Sassaman affiliate Hal Finney follows in second on 15%.
To nobody’s shock, bets for Craig Wright presently give him a meager 2% probability, and Elon Musk, Jed McCaleb, and Dorian Nakamoto, additionally function on the listing.
That is all assuming HBO will certainly reveal Nakamto’s identification. Regardless of Politco reporting the documentary will just do that, HBO promotional materials doesn’t explicitly make the declare, and solely asks the query, “In the future of money, who holds the power?”
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