Just rewatched some clips from HBO's Money Electric documentary and honestly, the Len Sassaman angle is pretty compelling. For those not familiar, Sassaman was this legendary cryptographer back in the cypherpunk days—seriously brilliant guy who worked on PGP and GNU Privacy Guard. He co-founded Osogato with his wife Meredith Patterson and had an impressive academic track record at KU Leuven. The guy lived and breathed cryptography.

Here's where it gets interesting. The documentary is basically laying out a case that Len Sassaman could have been Satoshi Nakamoto. I know, I know—another Satoshi theory. But the evidence they present is actually worth considering. His cryptographic expertise was undeniable, and linguistic analysis shows some interesting parallels between his writing style and Nakamoto's posts. Plus, the timing is weird: Nakamoto went silent just two months before Sassaman's death in 2011.

What really caught my attention though is this detail about Sassaman leaving a suicide note with "24 random words." Some people in the community are connecting this to the 24-word seed phrases used in crypto wallets. Whether that's a real connection or just pattern-matching, it's definitely made people think.

Obviously, Sassaman's wife and others close to him don't believe he was Satoshi. And we have that massive fact: Nakamoto's ~$64 billion in Bitcoin has never moved. That's a lot of restraint for someone who created something so valuable.

But the mystery around Satoshi's identity is exactly why documentaries like this keep getting made. Whether Len Sassaman actually was Nakamoto or not, his contributions to cryptography and privacy are massive and undeniable. The guy was a pioneer.

What do you think? Does the case for Len Sassaman hold up to you, or is this just another wild theory in a long line of Satoshi speculation?