The Mystery Behind Bitcoin Just Got a Lot More Interesting with New Documentary, Finding Satoshi

For seventeen years, the person who invented Bitcoin kept one of the most remarkable secrets in the history of modern technology. They built a financial system worth trillions of dollars, corresponded with developers under a pseudonym, and then disappeared in 2010, never to be heard from again. The wallets attributed to them hold over a million Bitcoin. Not one coin has ever moved.

Finding Satoshi, released exclusively on FindingSatoshi.com April 22nd, was the first documentary to present a definitive conclusion about who that person was, backed by four years of forensic investigation.

The film was directed by Matthew Miele and Tucker Tooley and produced by Tucker Tooley, Jordan Fried, and Happy Walters. The investigation followed William D. Cohan, a New York Times bestselling author, and Tyler Maroney, a private investigator whose firm Quest Research & Investigations has worked on some of the most complex cases in recent American history.

The film brought in Kathleen Puckett, the former FBI behavioral analyst whose prior work included helping identify the Unabomber, to apply a profiling methodology no prior Satoshi investigation had attempted. She was joined on screen by Bill Gates, Gary Gensler, Kara Swisher, and Michael Saylor, whose combined perspectives stretched from the earliest days of personal computing to the halls of financial regulation.

“Most investigations into Satoshi have been clownish, done by tourists, or disrespected the subject matter,” said Nic Carter, a widely respected voice in the crypto world. “This is the first one that is good.”