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An HBO documentary claiming to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto has sparked wild speculation online—and deceased cryptographer Len Sassaman is now in the spotlight.

Who Was Sassaman?

Sassaman wasn’t just any coder. The guy was a legit cryptography prodigy who cut his teeth in San Francisco’s cypherpunk circles in the '90s. He studied under David Chaum (yes, the blockchain pioneer), contributed to PGP and GNU Privacy Guard, and was pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering at KU Leuven when he passed away in 2011 at just 31.

Respectable résumé for someone allegedly building Bitcoin, right?

The Circumstantial Evidence

Here’s where it gets interesting:

Linguistic fingerprints: Satoshi went silent around May 2010—exactly two months before Sassaman’s death in July 2011. Coincidence? Maybe.

The paper trail: Sassaman’s academic output was substantial—publications, conferences, the whole deal. Dude clearly had the chops to architect a peer-to-peer currency system.

Blockchain breadcrumbs: A memorial to Sassaman was literally encoded into Bitcoin Block 138725. Pretty poetic for someone who wasn’t the creator.

The untouched fortune: Nakamoto’s $64 billion Bitcoin stash has never moved. If Sassaman was really Satoshi, that would’ve died with him—no heirs touching it.

The Counter

Sassaman’s widow Meredith Patterson flatly denies her husband was Nakamoto. And honestly? We may never know. The Satoshi mystery is crypto’s greatest unsolved case, and speculation like this is basically what keeps the internet alive.

What’s your take—does Sassaman’s profile fit the Satoshi puzzle?