Today, Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized digital currency, whose history began in 2008 when Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper where he first introduced the concept of a decentralized digital currency independent of banks and governments.

HBO documentary film maker Cullen Hoback has named Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer who has been involved with bitcoin since 2010, as who he believes to be the real-world identity of Satoshi

Meme coins named after them debuted ahead of the documentary and saw huge swings as traders placed bets on whom it would name.Todd, an applied cryptography consultant at GitHub, has been mostly overlooked,