Valletta features in new HBO documentary on Bitcoin creator

A new HBO documentary exploring the identity of Bitcoin’s mysterious creator is set to feature Valletta prominently.

Electric Money promises to reveal fresh details about the possible identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, although its trailer stops short of claiming to unveil the actual person – or group of people.

Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to Malta to meet Adam Back, a Maltese resident said to be one of the first two people contacted by Satoshi Nakamoto, the architect of the Bitcoin, the world’s first and most valuable cryptocurrency.

Mr Back is the founder and CEO of Blockstream, a technology company registered in Malta.

The trailer for Electric Moneys show Mr Back walking through Valletta’s St George’s Square and being interviewed in a living room with characteristics that are identifiably Maltese.

It even starts with Mr Hoback telling Mr Back: “We should start with an interview in Malta.”

A few years ago, the Maltese Government made a significant push to market Malta as a “Blockchain Island” – blockchain being the technology cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are built on.

As part of its efforts to attract crypto-firms to the country, the Maltese Government introduced landmark legislation that was the world’s first attempt at regulating an industry that is by nature something of a Wild West.

Malta’s Virtual Financial Assets law later served as inspiration for the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

Watch the trailer here: