Previous reports have suggested early Bitcoin enthusiasts Hal Finney, Nick Sabo, and Adam Back as potential inventors of the cryptocurrency, as well as others who have been working on similar technology since the 1990s. The group also includes the so-called “cypherpunks,'' but all of them deny that they are Nakamoto.
A cryptocurrency wallet believed to belong to Nakamoto holds around 1 million bitcoins worth more than $60 billion (£46 billion). Their contents are not mentioned.
A 2014 Newsweek article credits Dorian Nakamoto, a Japanese American living in California, as the author. However, he denied knowing anything about Bitcoin.
In 2016, Australian computer programmer Craig Wright told the BBC that he was the inventor of Bitcoin. Wright subsequently filed a series of defamation lawsuits against rival cryptocurrency developers who disputed his claims.
However, a High Court judge earlier this year ruled that Mr Wright was not Nakamoto and had “massively and repeatedly lied” and “massive fabrications” to support his claims.
The claim that Todd, who would have been 23 years old when he wrote the Bitcoin white paper, was Nakamoto was met with skepticism from cryptocurrency experts.
In the documentary, Todd says the suggestion that he is Nakamoto is “ridiculous,” before adding: Of course, I'm Satoshi Nakamoto and I'm Craig Wright. ”
