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Debunking the "Finding Satoshi" Documentary
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- Apr 27, 2026
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- 1561
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- https://ftapon.substack.com/p/the-finding-satoshi-documentary-is
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Summary
Warning: this show has spoilers! Watch the video of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd-jGXonSzM TIMELINE 00:00 Spoiler 01:00 Three positive features 02:00 Fatal Flaw 1 03:30 Fatal Flaw 2 05:10 Sleep schedules 06:00 And then there were 2 08:00 Confirmation bias 10:20 Hal Finney is NOT half of Satoshi 18:00 Widows 19:33 Benjamin Wallace's 5 points 22:00 Conclusion Watch the trailer for Finding Satoshi . In April 2026, Finding Satoshi is the only place where you can see the full movie. I used the code NATALIE and got a small discount (the total price was $14.31 after the coupon). The code may have expired or been used up by the time you read this. It's expensive, but it's a high-end production. Although I disagree with the film's conclusion, I enjoyed watching it. I hope one day it will appear on the streaming services. Benjamin Wallace’s Take After only seeing the trailer, Benjamin Wallace emailed me his first impressions: They interview some of the same people I did, including Will Price (who supervised Hal Finney), Jon Callas (who worked with Finney and was a close friend of Sassaman), and Meredith Patterson (Sassaman’s widow). When I first spoke with Will and Jon, I, too, had a thrilling eureka feeling that I had cracked the mystery. Alas, there were too many confounding factors to remain confident in this theory: 1. Len Sassaman was very critical about Bitcoin, and Meredith said the criticism was sincere; 2. it’s far from certain that Satoshi’s 2014 “I am not Dorian Nakamoto” message, 3 years after Sassaman’s death, was from a hacked account; 3. Jon Callas and Ben Laurie both told me that Sassaman wasn’t a naturally modest person, likely to conceal his involvement in the creation of a revolutionary technology, 4. and both Callas and Bram Cohen, creator…