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The Peter Todd = Satoshi hypothesis from HBO 2024 "Money Electric." Frame: a Dec 2010 BitcoinTalk thread where Todd seemed to complete a Satoshi post. Counter: Todd was 22 and an undergrad in 2007.
HBO documentary Money Electric (Cullen Hoback) named Peter Todd as a Satoshi candidate, citing a 2010 BitcoinTalk reply about RBF and Todd's later BIP 125. Todd called the claim ludicrous.
Peter Todd participated in the Zcash trusted setup ceremony in October 2016 — driving across BC, shielding his laptop in a Faraday cage, and torching the hardware — then criticized the process.
Peter Todd announced OpenTimestamps, an open-source infrastructure using the Bitcoin blockchain to timestamp unlimited documents per transaction via Merkle tree aggregation.
BIP 125 formalized opt-in Replace-by-Fee (RBF), tracing directly to Satoshi's December 2010 BitcoinTalk replacement mechanism — the thread where Peter Todd made his second-ever forum post.
Peter Todd proposed BIP 65, introducing OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY — an opcode locking transaction outputs until a future time. Deployed as a soft fork, enabling escrow and payment channels.
Satoshi Nakamoto describes a possible design for transaction replacement — a higher-fee double-spend replacing the original. Later known as Replace-by-Fee (RBF). Peter Todd replied ~1.5 hours later.
Peter Todd's first BitcoinTalk post, one minute after registering as retep — offering $2 USD (not BTC, unlike others) for a Diaspora invite. His second post was a technical reply to Satoshi.