The 2008 Bitcoin white paper, authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, described a financial system that did not require a centralized authority or identifiable founder. This was assured by its anonymous author. A new documentary titled Finding Satoshi offers a potential answer to the question the cryptocurrency community has been asking ever since.
Finding Satoshi, directed by Matthew Miele and Tucker Tooley and produced by Tucker Tooley, Jordan Fried of Fried Films and Happy Walters, is the result of a four-year investigation led by Wall Street Journal veteran and New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan and private investigator Tyler Maroney of Quest Research & Investigations, drawing on original reporting, forensic analysis, previously unpublished documents and interviews with more than twenty subjects.
Private detective, Tyler Maroney and investigative journalist, William D. Cohan / Courtesy of FINDING SATOSHI
The film, released exclusively at FindSatoshi.comfollows the genealogy of Bitcoin’s origins as an intellectual and human history rather than a technological one. He traced the whole history of ideas that led to the white paperfrom the cypherpunk movement through the creation of PGP encryption, Hashcash and Bit Gold, to the specific cultural moment of 2008 when the network debuted in the wake of a global financial crisis. Speakers include Michael Saylor, Fred Ehrsam, Joseph Lubin, Bill Gates, Gary Gensler, Kara Swisher, Phil Zimmermann, the developer of PGP, and Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent.
The work of Kathleen Puckett, a former FBI behavioral analyst, helped identify the Unabomber and she brought a methodology that none of Satoshi’s other investigations had used before. His investigation relied not only on forensic and journalistic work, but also on behavioral analysis.
The author of Bitcoin Principles, Vijay Selvam, called the film best bitcoin documentary there. Most previous studies regarding Satoshi’s identity were clownish, Nic Carter said.
