“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

Spoiler alert: This episode contains spoilers for the documentary Finding Satoshi.

Bill Cohan and Tyler Maroney unpack their new documentary Finding Satoshi, a four-year investigation into the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

They explore why Satoshi’s identity still matters, the cypherpunk roots of Bitcoin, the public interest behind the mystery, and what the search reveals about privacy, money, power, and the mythology at the heart of crypto.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:17 Did We Find Him?

6:32 Why Find Satoshi?

11:54 Why OGs Didn’t Care

14:57 How Hard was the Investigation?

18:20 Talking to the Early Cypherpunks

19:58 Public Interest

26:08 Cypherpunk’s Ideology

39:07 Spoiler Alert: The Aha Moment

51:30 Satoshi’s Death

1:00:59 Bitcoin as a Public Good

1:05:23 Will Satoshi Come Back?

1:10:39 Was it All Planned?

1:11:52 Quantum Treasure Hunt

1:14:00 What would Satoshi think of Bitcoin Today?

1:17:09 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

William D. Cohan