{"id":17885,"date":"2025-02-26T18:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/seeking-satoshi-the-mystery-bitcoin-creator-review-a-documentary-so-thin-it-features-the-creators-mum\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:07:54","slug":"seeking-satoshi-the-mystery-bitcoin-creator-review-a-documentary-so-thin-it-features-the-creators-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/seeking-satoshi-the-mystery-bitcoin-creator-review-a-documentary-so-thin-it-features-the-creators-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Satoshi: The Mystery Bitcoin Creator review \u2013 a documentary so thin it features the creator\u2019s mum"},"content":{"rendered":"

This attempt to discover the identity of the cryptocurrency\u2019s originator is clearly a labour of love. But all the information is old and it\u2019s so padded out it\u2019s the TV equivalent of a Zoom call that could have been an email<\/p>\n

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? It\u2019s a mystery that has vexed the internet since long before crypto went mainstream, via Silicon Valley bros and that weird period where celebrities got really into NFTs<\/a>. <\/strong>Finding out the identity of the person who designed bitcoin \u2013 the decentralised, multitrillion-dollar currency \u2013 would be a big (and potentially dangerous) deal. Think WikiLeaks, if Julian Assange was also a potential kidnapping target with a handsome digital ransom fee. It is also \u2013 you may be unsurprised to hear \u2013 a mystery that this digital two-parter from Channel 4 does not get to the bottom of. At the outset, its journalist host, Gabriel Gatehouse<\/a> (known for the BBC\u2019s Trump podcast, The Coming Storm<\/a>), warns viewers that: \u201cThe film you\u2019re about to watch \u2013 in fact, this whole series \u2013 consists almost entirely of middle-aged white guys talking about tech\u201d, as their middle-aged, white-guy faces flash up on screen. That wouldn\u2019t be so much of an issue if any of these \u201ccypherpunk\u201d pioneers \u2013 or Gatehouse himself \u2013 had anything to say that hadn\u2019t already been debunked on Reddit.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the interviewees\u2019 fault. Gatehouse blames a possible omert\u00e0 code for their silence, but with Satoshi potentially a target for all manner of cartels, criminals and governments, why would any of these computer scientists \u2013 namely fellow Briton Adam Back, who ducks and dives away from Gatehouse at a conference in Miami \u2013 give anything away? In lieu of revelations, we get an Adam Curtis<\/a>-inspired visual treatment to distract us \u2013 all film noir clips juxtaposed with old cartoons and animations of faceless automatons marching in lockstep.<\/p>\n

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\nThis attempt to discover the identity of the cryptocurrency\u2019s originator is clearly a labour of love. But all the information is old and it\u2019s so padded out it\u2019s the TV equivalent of a Zoom call that could have been an email
\nWho is Satoshi Nakamoto? It\u2019s a mystery that has vexed the internet since long before crypto went mainstream, via Silicon Valley bros and that weird period where celebrities got really into NFTs. Finding out the identity of the person who designed bitcoin \u2013 the decentralised, multitrillion-dollar currency \u2013 would be a big (and potentially dangerous) deal. Think WikiLeaks, if Julian Assange was also a potential kidnapping target with a handsome digital ransom fee. It is also \u2013 you may be unsurprised to hear \u2013 a mystery that this digital two-parter from Channel 4 does not get to the bottom of. At the outset, its journalist host, Gabriel Gatehouse (known for the BBC\u2019s Trump podcast, The Coming Storm), warns viewers that: \u201cThe film you\u2019re about to watch \u2013 in fact, this whole series \u2013 consists almost entirely of middle-aged white guys talking about tech\u201d, as their middle-aged, white-guy faces flash up on screen. That wouldn\u2019t be so much of an issue if any of these \u201ccypherpunk\u201d pioneers \u2013 or Gatehouse himself \u2013 had anything to say that hadn\u2019t already been debunked on Reddit.
\nIt\u2019s not the interviewees\u2019 fault. Gatehouse blames a possible omert\u00e0 code for their silence, but with Satoshi potentially a target for all manner of cartels, criminals and governments, why would any of these computer scientists \u2013 namely fellow Briton Adam Back, who ducks and dives away from Gatehouse at a conference in Miami \u2013 give anything away? In lieu of revelations, we get an Adam Curtis-inspired visual treatment to distract us \u2013 all film noir clips juxtaposed with old cartoons and animations of faceless automatons marching in lockstep. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This attempt to discover the identity of the cryptocurrency\u2019s originator is clearly a labour of love. But all the information is old and it\u2019s so padded out it\u2019s the TV equivalent of a Zoom call that could have been an email Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? It\u2019s a mystery that has vexed the internet since long …<\/p>\n

Seeking Satoshi: The Mystery Bitcoin Creator review \u2013 a documentary so thin it features the creator\u2019s mum<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}