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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Is Len Sassaman Really Satoshi Nakamoto? HBO Documentary Reignites Bitcoin Inventor Speculation
Oct 05, 2024 at 08:01 am
Deceased computer scientist and privacy advocate Len Sassaman is unexpectedly in the limelight as bettors speculate on the upcoming HBO documentary that advertises itself as revealing the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin.
Deceased computer scientist and privacy advocate Len Sassaman has unexpectedly found himself in the limelight once again as bettors speculate on the upcoming HBO documentary that advertises itself as revealing the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin.
Whether he was the real Satoshi Nakamoto or not, Sassaman was an interesting character. Here's a look at his life and work.
A troubled prodigy
Information about Leonard Harris Sassaman’s early life is scant. He attended the tony private school The Hill School in his native state of Pennsylvania and was a cryptography wunderkind by the time he was in college, according to multiple accounts.
While still in his late teens, Sassaman was drawn to San Francisco, California, and fell in with the cypherpunks — computer privacy pioneers who formed something of a movement in the late 1980s. He eventually went on to study under blockchain inventor David Chaum.
Sassaman worked on such projects as the Pretty Good Privacy software and its update GNU Privacy Guard. He and his wife, computer scientist Meredith Patterson, founded the SaaS startup Osogato.
Sassaman was a doctoral student in electrical engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium when he died by suicide on July 3, 2011, at the age of 31. A memorial to him was encoded into Block 138725 of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Tribute to Len Sassaman on the Bitcoin blockchain. Source: Evan Leung Hatch
Related: Polymarket odds on who HBO will out as Satoshi Nakamoto favor Len Sassaman
Len “Satoshi Nakamoto” Sassaman?
Sassaman and Patterson married in 2006, and they remained married until his death. Patterson has stated that she does not believe her husband was Satoshi Nakamoto.
“I’ve seen the speculation, but I can say definitively that my husband, Len Sassaman, was not Satoshi Nakamoto,” Patterson stated in 2022.
There is circumstantial evidence to support the theory that Sassaman was Nakamoto. Sassaman left behind an impressive list of publications, conference presentations and other academic activity — certainly enough to convince a nonspecialist of his capability of inventing Bitcoin. He was a member of the International Financial Cryptography Association and regularly spoke on financial cryptography.
Among other circumstantial evidence, linguistic analysis provides evidence that Sassaman could be Bitcoin’s inventor. Nakamoto went silent two months before Sassaman’s death.
It is also noteworthy that no one has ever touched the $64 billion in Bitcoin BTC $62,102.89 held by Nakamoto.
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