The passive voice in news articles is an accountability sink. Cullen Hoback[1] is the accuser.<p>1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen_Hoback" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen_Hoback</a>
I wonder if it's more than a coincidence that "petertodd" is one of the so-called "glitch tokens" for ChatGPT (<a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8viQEp8KBg2QSW4Yc/solidgoldmagikarp-iii-glitch-token-archaeology" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8viQEp8KBg2QSW4Yc/solidgoldm...</a>).<p>(Edit: the link does mention determining Peter Todd's identity and the fact that he has some involvement with Bitcoin - I had forgotten about this entirely - but it's still strange that this name ended up in the set of tokens that causes the glitches.)
Wow, this flippant hand waving by the documentary creator that the accused shouldn't be upset because the fears of being unmasked as a potential Satoshi being "overblown" as far as it being life threatening and disruptive is quite honestly disgusting. The documentary creator isn't the one to have to live his life fearing some unknown crazies harassing him for a potentially owned unfathomable amount of money. Nobody should have to live through that in the name of "public interest", how people can do that and live with thinking of themselves as some altruistic force of truth I'll never understand. How will he feel if his documentary ends up causing Todd real physical harm?
I'm pretty convinced Len Sassaman was one of the creators bitcoin.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman</a>
Some interesting comments from /u/petertodd on this topic here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783503">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783503</a>
There's plenty enough bad behavior to go around here. Hogback is willing to do whatever for marketing, Todd is a troll and reaping the consequences of years of prevaricating. And anyone who chooses to be involved on Bitcoin at this point should not be surprised to attract criticism.