Is the Bitcoin entrepreneur buried in Leuven? A new documentary features a doctoral student who died 13 years ago

Sassaman was an American computer scientist, specializing in privacy, who received his doctorate at KU Leuven. ‘Yes’, because the man died in 2011 at the age of 31 and was buried in a cemetery in Heverlee. And it is only that time that calls him a potential inventor of Bitcoin.

“The nickname Satoshi Nakamoto was very involved in all discussions about the cryptocurrency at the beginning of Bitcoin,” explained Bart Preneel, professor of computer security and cryptography at KU Leuven, in De Wereld Today on Radio 1. Preneel was Sassaman’s supervisor as a Ph.D. a student “In 2011, Nakamoto suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth. That time roughly coincided with Sassaman’s death.”