On the academic side of things, he has a very thin paper trail: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wright:Craig_S= http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wright:Cra

On the academic side of things, he has a very thin paper trail: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wright:Craig_S= http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wright:Craig_S= and http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81488659808&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0&cfid=779669783&cftoken=67111435 http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81488659808&coll=DL&dl=... I'm not saying the real Satoshi has to be an academic computer scientist, but if someone with a significant academic publication record in cryptography stepped forward, I would take it much more seriously. Of course, this is secondary to the fact that Wright has not signed a new message with the original Satoshi key.