Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi's private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key. Nothing short of that would be believable by the crypto nerds.

If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi, or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access. Even if that person wasn't actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.

Unless it's Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.

"With great claims come great responsibility"

That guy from Spiderman, probably

I hate how this phrase has been abused so much. There's nothing particularly extraordinary here--we're not talking about bigfoot or aliens--and the whole point of a documentary like this is to lay out evidence.

That's the twist. It was actually ₿igfoot who invented ₿itcoin, don't you see?

Well no, it's an ad for the doc.

Guessing this is the one https://www.hbo.com/movies/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery
It hasn't released yet it seems, october 8. Though HBO does not seem to claim any of the above, I smell another flop.

That's... that's a Pornhub category right? "Watching people watching porn" has got to be a tab on that site. It's sounds too much like a kink to not be a kink.

[citation needed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_x6QmuJdms

Oh please.

The evidence for Szabo is circumstantial at best. I’ll give you he has the skills and experience and was working on digital currency at the time.

But Szabo was just one of hundreds of people working on different ideas related to digital currency around the time Bitcoin was released.

And how many hundreds of people developed their own cryptocurrency after getting the idea from the Bitcoin whitepaper? Clearly he not the only “person on earth who had both the skills and experience”.

Not to mention Szabo has repeatedly denied being Satoshi.

A single individual is the most likely way to keep a secret compartmentalized.

The government sucks at keeping secrets despite what the conspiracy nuts say.