IS LEN SASSAMAN SATOSHI NAKAMOTO?🤔

**Len Sassaman** was a computer scientist and a privacy advocate who came into the limelight after HBO advertised itself as revealing the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, premiering on **October 8**.

He attended a Tony private school in his native state of Pennsylvania and was a cryptography wunderkind. In his late teens, Sassaman went to San Francisco, California. He eventually went to study under blockchain inventor David Chaum.

He and his wife, a computer scientist named Meredith Patterson, founded the SaaS startup Osogato. Sassaman was a doctoral student in electrical engineering at the Kathilueke University Leuven in Belgium when he died by suicide on July 3, 2011 at the age of 31. A memorial to him was encoded into block 138725 of the bitcoin blockchain.

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Sassaman and Patterson married in **2006**, and they remained married until his death. Patterson stated that she does not believe her husband was Satoshi Nakamoto, but there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory that Sassaman was Nakamoto. Sassaman left behind an **impressive list of publications, conference presentations, and other academic activity**—certainly enough to convince a nonspecialist of his capability of inventing Bitcoin. He was a member of the **International Financial Cryptography Association** and regularly spoke on financial cryptography.

Nakamoto went silent two months before Sassaman’s death, so this also acts as evidence that Sassaman could be Bitcoin’s inventor. It should also be noted that no one has ever touched the $64 billion in Bitcoin held by Nakamoto.

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