The documentary was released this Wednesday and to access it, you have to pay $15.
Both Finney and Sassaman left this world, but their connection to Bitcoin is indisputable.
This Wednesday, April 22, it premiered worldwide «Finding Satoshi», a documentary directed by Matthew Miele and Tucker Tooley that claims that cryptographers Hal Finney and Len Sassaman are the people behind the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.
The documentary, which lasts 1 hour and 41 minutes, was presented as the culmination of a four-year investigation based on evidence and exclusive access to the protagonists of the digital asset industry.
According to the audiovisual piece, Finney was the one who created the Bitcoin code, while Sassaman was in charge of preparing the white paper (whitepaper) of the protocol that transformed global finance almost 18 years ago.
To access the content, users must make a payment of $14.99 through digital platforms, where the piece is available in several languagesincluding Spanish, English, French and German.
The narrative core of «Finding Satoshi followed the work of investigative journalist William D. Cohan and private investigator Tyler Maroney. Both—apparently—traced the origins of Bitcoin through original reports and intimate conversations with early adopters and architects of the ecosystem, concluding that Finney and Sassaman are the ones really behind this protocol.
Hal Finney was a renowned cryptographer and the first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction directly from Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. As a pioneer of the systems Proof of Work (Proof of Work) and a key developer in the beginnings of the code, his link with the birth of the protocol is indisputable.
Sadly, Finney passed away in 2014 due to complications from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Faithful to his futuristic vision, his body was cryopreserved by the Alcor Foundation, in the hope that future medical technology can bring him back to life.
For his part, Len Sassaman was a brilliant privacy advocate and cryptography expert, recognized for his work maintaining PGP software and anonymous message relay systems (remailers). Theorists maintain that his writing style and academic training coincide with the rigor of the whitepaper of Bitcoin.
Sassaman tragically passed away in 2011just months after Satoshi Nakamoto sent his last public message and disappeared from the forums, a temporary coincidence that has fueled for years the theory that he was the mastermind—or an essential part of it—behind the project.
The release of this documentary occurs in a context of high sensitivity and debate within the community. The premiere occurs just weeks after the American newspaper The New York Times published, on April 8, 2026, an extensive investigation that pointed to the British cryptographer Adam Back as the real Satoshi Nakamoto.
Likewise, HBO’s precedent in 2024 with the documentary Money Electric, where it was claimed that developer Peter Todd was the creator of the digital currency, left a trail of skepticism. That conclusion was widely questioned and denied by the technical community, as documented by CriptoNoticias.