Peter Todd, the longtime Bitcoin Core developer, was recently sued by anonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a new lawsuit. HBO documentary.
Although he vehemently denied the claims, both on camera and It's goneTodd said Decrypt Friday, where he is known as an unknown genius in public 74.4 billion dollars The price of Bitcoin forced him to go further to protect himself.
“I took some safety measures,” Todd said. But it's not a good idea to say exactly what I did publicly. Better to keep the bad guys guessing.
The previous contribution of Bitcoin adds, but it is definitely is not In hiding, or he never was, according to a recent Wired story proposed that. In fact, Todd attended a Bitcoin conference in Lugano, Switzerland—where a statue was unveiled in Nakamoto's honor.Today And he said he plans to speak at five more events around the world in the coming weeks.
Overall — and surprisingly — Todd says he has never been publicly seen or badgered by anyone appearing in the HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Secret of Bitcoin.”
“One thing that helped was my refusal to do any audio/video interviews with the (many) reporters who asked,” Todd said via email.
Todd, it should be noted, is no stranger to public scrutiny. Although this is certainly the focus of Satoshi's nomination, the blockchain developer has been involved with Bitcoin since its infancy and has previously been floated as potentially creating the world's first cryptocurrency in secret.
“Money Electric” director Cullen Hoback argued in the film that there is a lot of evidence that suggests Todd is Satoshi, including the similarities between the two individuals' writing styles. Hoback says that Todd's experiments as a teenager cast doubt on the concept of digital currency, Todd wrote in a blog post that Hoback's claims were accidentally generated by a false account — and should have been posted by Satoshi.
But many in the crypto community They did not believe. In those arguments. When Todd is introduced to them by Hoback at the conclusion of the documentary, he immediately dismisses them as “ridiculous.”
After Todd disputed the claim this week that it was hidden, Hoback took to Twitter to argue that even that confirmation reveals the developer's hidden Machiavellian machinations.
“Peter told Todd Wired he had to hide,” Hoback posted. “Then Wared will be ridiculed for appearing on stage today, running with this narrative.”
“As the author tactfully wrote,” Hoback continued, quoting a piece of rope. “‘Todd' trolling' exposes him as much as he hates him.”
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
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