Have you ever thought about that theory circulating about Len Sassaman being Satoshi Nakamoto? Like, HBO just released a documentary called 'Money Electric' that reignited this whole discussion.

For those who don't know, Len Sassaman was a serious cryptographer indeed. Involved with the San Francisco cypherpunks from a young age, he worked on heavy privacy projects like PGP and GnuPG. He co-founded Osogato with his wife Meredith Patterson. But in 2011, at age 31, while pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at KU Leuven, he passed away.

Now here’s the intriguing part: the documentary is suggesting that Len Sassaman could have been the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. I mean, the theory has some interesting points of truth. Sassaman’s academic background was impressive, with experience in cutting-edge cryptography, and some people are doing linguistic analysis of his writing comparing it to Nakamoto’s texts — and apparently, there are similarities.

There’s more: Nakamoto disappeared from circulation around 2010, a few months before Sassaman’s death. Coincidence? Some think not. There’s also that strange detail about a possible suicide note with ‘24 random words’ — and yes, crypto wallets use 24-word seed phrases. Kinda suspicious, right?

But here’s the problem: nobody knows for sure. Sassaman’s wife, for example, doesn’t believe in this theory. And there’s one more thing that keeps everything open: the $64 billion in Bitcoin that Nakamoto mined has never been moved. Like, if it was Sassaman, why leave it all there?

What do I think? Len Sassaman definitely contributed a lot to cryptography and privacy to be forgotten. But this story of being Satoshi is still full of mysteries. HBO’s documentary is probably going to add more fuel to this discussion. What’s your opinion — was Sassaman really the creator of Bitcoin, or is it all just speculation?