Len Sassaman, a well-known cypherpunk who dedicated suicide in 2011, is, based on Polymarket, the most certainly candidate to be unmasked as the true Satoshi Nakamoto by a brand new HBO documentary, on account of air this coming Tuesday.
Sassaman, a well known privateness advocate and cryptography specialist, carried out analysis for Laptop Safety and Industrial Cryptography and co-founded an annual convention for software program hackers.
A preferred principle put ahead by Evan Leung Hatch suggests that Sassaman could also be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator and that his suicide might be linked to Nakamoto’s closing 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 (value greater than $60 billion at present) 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% likelihood 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% likelihood, and Elon Musk, Jed McCaleb, and Dorian Nakamoto, additionally function on the checklist.
That is all assuming HBO will certainly reveal Nakamto’s id. Regardless of Politco reporting the documentary will do exactly 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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