The documentary may be new but the claim is not. The tweet embedded in the submission itself says:

> there was a good write-up of this theory by @evan_worlds in 2021

The detailed writeup from 2021 is easily accessible[1]; Len’s Wikipedia page mentions that theory too[2].

[1]: https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman

To me the most appealing hypothesis was this comment https://web.archive.org/web/20240407013631/https://www.reddi...

The commenter deleted it for whatever reason after a while...

I don't get the "HBO claims BTC creator is Len". I saw that the internet is betting on him, but there's no evidence whatsoever that HBO will claim this. (And yes, I almost think Len's quite the right candidate, cf Evan "Leung" Hatch's article on Medium).

I read that Len was a heavy linux user with no Windows experience. Meanwhile, the first bitcoin implementation is done on Windows for Windows.

Some people may remember better this aspect.

New HBO Documentary makes unfounded sensational claim to call attention to new mediocre documentary by HBO. *fixed it

For what it’s worth, this is the histogram of Satoshi’s bitcointalk post times in GMT https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5...

Assuming he didn’t post from work (for opsec reasons), this is most consistent with living/working in central/eastern europe/africa. Len Sassaman lived and worked in SV.

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732985

This article is not great. You can see from a link that somebody else had previously named Sassaman, but there's no discussion of that. No discussion of why Hoback suspects Sassaman (although, probably too early for that). No mention of Hoback pretty convincingly naming Q in QAnon: Into the Storm.

Also it uses "cyberpunk" in place of "cypherpunk" at one point

This is not a new theory: https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-cypherpu...

There are several good much older articles and posts digging into Sassaman and Finley and the sort of cyberpunk scene from that region of the country. Hard to search it up right now due to article spam about this documentary.

Whatever you think of cryptocurrencies, the mystery is alluring and endlessly fascinating.

There is probably no single "Satoshi" individual, but that was their avatar "API boundary" with which to interface with the rest of the world. It was probably a scheme to financialize fintech (with an emphasis on tech) by 2-4 people who then held large amounts of the value they printed, making them covert decabillionaires able to escape press, kidnapping, pitch schemes, and taxation.

Then we can reasonably conclude that Len Sassaman was NOT Satoshi Nakamoto.

BTW, Satoshi Nakamoto translated to English = Central Intelligence. (Family name first in formal Japanese.) Fun coincidence.

Len isn't Satoshi. Len may have been employed by Satoshi at one point though.

does the documentary bring new elements?

They're wrong. It's me

And this will no doubt be good for bitcoin, especially in the long run. Pyramids never fall.

Don't underestimate the possibility of Satoshi being an anti-West nation state. They tend to have brainpower lying around, and have an enormous interest in currency systems they cannot be excluded from (see e.g. Russia's Swift ban.)

By retaining the large initial chunk, they keep the origin and rationale secret. They also retain the ability to cherrybomb it as needed. Lastly, if the origin was known, there might be a push to get everyone to agree to invalidate their holdings via a special case.

I like the theory of Steve Jobs being Satoshi better:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/apple-bi...