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Filmmaker Cullen Hoback spent the last three years making ‘Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery’ which documents his journey to find out who created the first and most valuable cryptocurrency. CNN’s Jon Sarlin spoke with Hoback to find out why it’s important their identity does not remain a secret.

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