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For me the Devil is in the behavior. Why would Satoshi go about proving his existence and identity is such a convoluted matter? Simply signing the genesis with

For me the Devil is in the behavior. Why would Satoshi go about proving his existence and identity is such a convoluted matter? Simply signing the genesis with a message and posting it pretty much anywhere (bitcointalk, /r/bitcoin, here) for people to verify is all it takes. Not a rambling blot posts full of screenshots and some back-alley interview. This is exactly the kind of 'slight of hand' that a conman utilizes, not a cryptographer of Satoshi's caliber.

gherkin0 10y ago
Didn't Satoshi also sign his earliest messages with a PGP key? If this guy's really Satoshi, couldn't he just sign a new message stating so with that same private key?
- aab0 10y ago
  No. Satoshi signed nothing with that PGP key that we know. Its purpose seems to have been for other people emailing him.
  - jessaustin 10y ago
    Even so, one who actually possessed that private key could sign a new message with it, and we could use the public key we know to verify that signature.