John Carreyrou

I've been fascinated with this for a long time, for probably more than a decade.

And then in early 2022, I decided to try my hand at solving the mystery.

And I started researching a book about it for several months, realized pretty quickly that I was out of my depth and gave up.

And then two years later, in the fall of 2024, something happened that reignited my interest.

Well...

I was sitting in the car with my wife in traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

And I always play this jazz funk station in the car.

And she got annoyed and tired of it.

And she turned on this podcast that we both like.

Which happens to be a New York Times podcast.

The popular tech show Hard Fork.

And I was immediately riveted because the hosts were discussing a new HBO documentary that claimed to have unmasked Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

We drove home.

As soon as we got in, I logged into the HBO Max app.

and pressed play and watched it.

In the end, I wasn't convinced.

By the film's conclusion, they singled out a young Canadian software developer named Peter Todd, and I felt like their evidence was too thin to justify, you know, asserting that they had solved the mystery.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's an entertaining romp through the world of crypto.

But what really caught my attention was the scene in the middle.