The Hunt For The Richest Anon (Premium E265)
Added 2024-10-31 19:34:14 +0000 UTCSomeone invented internet money, and we want to find out who they are. We’re not mad, we just want to talk.
For a decade and a half, the true identity of “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, has been a closely guarded secret. Several major publications have tried to uncover crypto’s founding father, including New Yorker, Vice, Newsweek, New York Times, and Wired. But definitive answers are elusive, despite the fact that Satoshi possibly controls over a million bitcoin worth tens of billions of dollars.
In the HBO Documentary “Money Electric: A Bitcoin Mystery” director Cullen Hoback makes an original case that the person behind Satoshi isn’t any of the usual suspects. Hoback, who also directed the docuseries “Q: Into the Storm,” believes that Satoshi is the Canadian Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd, who was 23 years old at the time of the whitepaper’s publication. Peter Todd, in the film itself and after the film’s release, denies that he is Satoshi.
We chat with Cullen about what inspired him to take on this project, why it even matters who Satoshi is, the evidence that convinced Cullen that he’s “very close to the answer,” and the internet mysteries he plans to tackle in future documentaries.
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Cullen Hoback
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The people who own the old wallets are not billionaires. The market for crypto is more shallow than the people hyping it want you to know. That’s why it’s so volatile: it doesn’t take as many trades to lower or raise the price. Even if you had 100,000 bitcoin right now, you could not sell all of them for the current market price. You probably couldn’t sell a hundred, or even half that, without absolutely tanking the price. There are simply not enough buy orders on the books or enough money flowing in to actually cash out at anywhere near to full price. Market capitalization is a poor measurement of bitcoin wealth.
Cumshitter
2024-11-09 09:12:41 +0000 UTCCicada. Yasss.
Justine Riekena
2024-11-06 21:57:21 +0000 UTCExactly I could not resubscribe.
Gallo Altanero
2024-11-06 12:43:47 +0000 UTCI don’t know that Liv’s comment about this registered with the others, but a DB Cooper documentary would be fantastic.
No Relation to Henry
2024-11-05 16:16:08 +0000 UTCDidn't they have multiple people who were The Stig over the years, and they came forward? I feel like I remember something about that, but I'm too lazy to look it up lol
KEGGY
2024-11-04 14:58:10 +0000 UTCI'm the Stig.
batlock666
2024-11-04 13:48:39 +0000 UTCYou have perfectly fused Democrat and Republican conspiracy theories and are now poised to unite the country behind you
No Relation to Henry
2024-11-04 07:55:47 +0000 UTCAs a linguist, it's the "specifically" in Peter's reply to Satoshi that gives it away. Starting a sentence with "specifically" like that is indication that you are clarifying a thought, not that you are correcting someone else's thought.
Brad Plumb
2024-11-04 00:37:35 +0000 UTCAdam's awkward silence during the confrontation scene is a pretty big crumb too. Compare that to how Peter behaved when Cullen was fake accusing Adam. Peter immediately jumped in and encouraged it. But when Cullen confronted Peter, Adam just clammed up.
Brad Plumb
2024-11-04 00:36:23 +0000 UTCCullen has a real gift for getting inside these communities and examining them on their own terms.
Brad Plumb
2024-11-04 00:33:13 +0000 UTCThe stigs are known, and anyone can look them up.
Suzie B
2024-11-03 17:04:24 +0000 UTCfunny how he knows they don't make sense sometimes but still goes with it.
ABAYARTS
2024-11-03 03:32:10 +0000 UTCCONSPIRACY THEORY: Putin is Q and recruited an elite team of Kremlin operatives to make these posts to disrupt US politics
Dani Moor
2024-11-02 23:42:25 +0000 UTCThe crumb I’m baking is the scene when Peter Todd and Adam Back are introduced together and Peter says “Satoshi is Everyone” and then in the car Peter says something about Adam being hesitant to bring Peter along to the company because “he didn’t want Everyone to work there”. He like gives Adam a knowing smile.
John Swan
2024-11-02 18:46:19 +0000 UTCGreat "this is not that" @44minutes
glenn mohre
2024-11-02 16:53:25 +0000 UTCMe the minute he said "money electric": I siiiiiing the body eleeeeeectric! I celebrate me me that's to coooooome! I used to be so mad when that show would come on PBS
Laura
2024-11-02 15:32:50 +0000 UTCI’ll have to watch this docco now but most people I know who have been in the industry for a long time thought Satoshi was Hal Finney. Definitely not Craig Wright. Satoshi being Canadian tracks as Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum) is also Canadian (University of Waterloo special).
Laura Walsh
2024-11-02 10:10:38 +0000 UTCJohn TItor is Joseph Matheny
Tyler Rabbit
2024-11-02 04:08:15 +0000 UTCWe love our beautiful boy
Shivvy
2024-11-01 23:29:23 +0000 UTCJust remembered Jake showed feet on HBO
Shivvy
2024-11-01 23:28:29 +0000 UTCYa'll need to pay LivAgar more money so there is LivAgar on every episode.
Farbik The Olden
2024-11-01 21:27:17 +0000 UTCQ into the Storm is how I learned about this podcast. How has it only been 3 years?! Really missed Julian on this episode. Wishing him well!
Sarah Biggs
2024-11-01 17:04:50 +0000 UTCyuh. I want to care about this, it feels like a tiny freckle that could turn into the most virulent cancer, but god it is so boring my brain just skates right off it. Like fuck it, I'll just die, dont make me think about crypto.
Hanna
2024-11-01 14:35:02 +0000 UTCdamn, "coolguy43" is the pw for QAA patreon acct. Y'all should change that.
SM21
2024-11-01 12:49:38 +0000 UTCAgreed. My only issue is that Jake's comparisons humanize the minds of transnational vampires
SM21
2024-11-01 12:39:44 +0000 UTCerrybody gotta thank them for not solving any problem that matters to people
SM21
2024-11-01 12:35:25 +0000 UTCSatoshi? More like sad tushy.
SM21
2024-11-01 12:32:40 +0000 UTCMe too. My feelings about Julian are best expressed by the question that he shouted at Alex Jones: “Why are you so beautiful???”
S G
2024-11-01 12:24:15 +0000 UTCthere was one already: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21404860/
Michał Kosakowski
2024-11-01 10:16:51 +0000 UTCI mean... Ron knew Cullen was good at finding things out (because he found out about him being Q), so he knew he should ask him.
Michał Kosakowski
2024-11-01 10:15:52 +0000 UTCI couldn't do it either. I'm not puzzle brained
Maxim
2024-11-01 08:51:12 +0000 UTCJake, you are a light in this dark world
Lisa M
2024-11-01 07:35:43 +0000 UTCSome of the shrines are fucking annoying though
Leyland
2024-11-01 05:55:26 +0000 UTCHe mentioned he’s taking a break from the pod on Twitter. He knows how much we all miss him.
Leyland
2024-11-01 05:53:26 +0000 UTCJake’s poker face strategy works! I have the same problem/gift and it’s so annoying to other players.
Leyland
2024-11-01 05:50:26 +0000 UTCjake just isn't nintendo brained
ev
2024-11-01 05:39:12 +0000 UTCHave you collaborated with Spencer Sunshine before?
Xander
2024-11-01 05:11:44 +0000 UTCJake admitting that he couldn't beat the puzzles in BOTW/TOTK is the biggest self-report I've ever heard. Those games are for children Jake.. CHILDREN
Buttfarts
2024-11-01 04:38:09 +0000 UTCOmg guys! Yes! We need a QAA John Titor episode
Plop
2024-10-31 22:59:55 +0000 UTCJake, never stop with your half-baked comparisons, they're at least 30% of the reason I listen
HandOfYawgmoth
2024-10-31 21:56:21 +0000 UTCI hope Julian is okay :(
Ben Klein
2024-10-31 21:10:56 +0000 UTCI find crypto people utterly exhausting
Michael Vader
2024-10-31 20:53:27 +0000 UTCSo excited for more work from Cullen
Suzie B
2024-10-31 20:14:17 +0000 UTCliv agar
ev
2024-10-31 19:57:45 +0000 UTCI thought this was going to be about the absolute batshit insane CEO of Overstock who is verifiably deeply Q-pilled based on the title 😂
Justin S.
2024-10-31 19:37:05 +0000 UTC
