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If an HBO show suggested that I was the Bitcoin creator, I would be wealthy... from owning HBO, after my team of lawyers (who accepted the suit on contingency) was done with them.

Then there's Google editorializing a headline at the top of search hits:

> Top stories

> Bitcoin creator's identity revealed in new HBO documentary

Yet none of the headlines they show makes that claim:

> POLITICO.eu - Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says

> Bloomberg - HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd

> The New York Times - A New Bitcoin Documentary Reopens the Search for Satoshi Nakamoto

> The Crypto Times - Peter Todd Denies He is Satoshi Nakamoto as claimed by HBO...

> The New Yorker - Has Bitcoin's Elusive Creator Finally Been Unmasked?

In general (not just in this case), there should also soon be some huge lawsuits for robo-slander, robo-libel, robo-defamation, robo-reckless-endangerment, etc.

Government is getting a lot more tech-savvy, and "everything's legal, if you claim an AI/algorithm/computer/dog did it" isn't flying anymore.




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