The crypto community discussed Len Sasaman, was he Satoshi Nakamoto?

Due to air on October 8, the HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” claims to have revealed the identity of the creator of the Bitcoin network.

American cypherpunk and cryptographer Leonard Harris “Len” Sassaman is emerging as a top contender.

Sassaman in 2010 He died after committing suicide in July 2011, and was credited with BTC block 138,725 on 30 July 2011 with the code:

“This block contains a transaction in ASCII art commemorating American technologist and cryptographer Leonard Harris Sassaman.”

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Who was Len Sassaman?

On October 6, crypto researcher ‘symbiote' released his findings on the HBO theory, stating that there is some “hard evidence” to support it.

Sassaman had an impressive academic record and expertise in cryptography. Linguistic analysis points out similarities between his writing and Satoshi Nakamoto's, before adding:

“The most surprising piece of evidence is Nakamoto's silence two months before Sasaman's death.”

Another interesting detail is that its own suicide note consists of 24 random words, which are very similar to the 24-word seed phrases used in crypto wallets, he added.

This is Len Sassaman – the man with $64B in $BTC

The man who invented Bitcoin might be Satoshi Nakamoto.

I spent ~10 hours researching the information, and the information I found shocked me.

Here is the story of the greatest crypto billionaire pic.twitter.com/WgFCxow75C

— Symbiote (@cryptosymbiote) October 5, 2024

The researcher ‘ardisor' added some weight to the concepts posted on October 6. Lane has been passionate about privacy since childhood, believing that the Internet needs protection from surveillance.

He was part of the Internet Engineering Task Force, which contributed to the TCP/IP protocol that underlies the Internet.

Sassaman has contributed to key privacy initiatives, including Beautiful Privacy Software and the GNU Privacy Shield.

Sassaman was one of the first users of Bitcoin, including his friend Hal Finney, who received the first BTC transaction from Satoshi.

Whether or not Sasaman is Satoshi remains to be seen, but some would be happier if he remained anonymous.

The world is better off not knowing who Satoshi Nakamoto is.

— Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) October 6, 2024

Large BTC Stash untouched

Viewers on Polymarket have Sassaman leading the polls with a 36% chance of being the creator of Bitcoin. Other competitors include Hal Finney, Adam Back and Nick Szabo.

However, Sassaman's widow In a post on Twitter in 2021, she said she doesn't believe her dead husband could be the inventor of Bitcoin.

The revelation could be positive for the network and Bitcoin owners as Sasaman is no longer around and the entity claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto holds over a million BTC in hundreds of addresses, which can now remain untouched forever.