Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B.
Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal. Documentarian Cullen Hoback thinks he has the answer. His new HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” digs into the rise of crypto currencies and the effort to uncover the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the nom de plume used by the author of the 11-page white paper that set Bitcoin and the broader crypto craze in motion after it was distributed widely online on Oct.
31, 2008. For Hoback, diving into crypto-mania was a natural segue after he probed the netherworld of the internet in his 2021 HBO docuseries “Q: Into the Storm.” That six-episode series posited a theory about the people who are fueling the dangerous and delusional theories peddled under the moniker of QAnon.
Both “Q” and “Money Electric” stemmed from Hoback’s interest in how the digital revolution is changing culture and the social order.
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