Wasn't there some article some time ago that Satoshi has been discovered? Was it shown to have been fake? At least on FB/G+ it went quite viral and I haven't seen anything since.
The most high-profile speculation to date came in a March 6, 2014, article in the magazine Newsweek,[30] when journalist Leah McGrath Goodman identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, whose birth name is Satoshi Nakamoto.
What's funny is, most of HN and most of the Bitcoin subreddit posters were saying that it seemed like the article was legit in the first 2-4 days of its release. And yet as I was reading the article, the day it came out, I seriously thought their correlations sounded way off and that they had the wrong guy.
I made a bunch of HN and reddit posts and even threads saying the Newsweek piece was very probably wrong, and was told to stop being a conspiracy nut. I even went into the official Bitcoin IRC to debate it with people, and found only 1 person agreeing with me and about 10 people against me.
It's scary to think that terrible journalism can be published and believed so easily.
- If Dorian was the real Satoshi, he would of course have used his 'real' account to try to disprove the claim.
- If not, the only to way to know for sure that he is not the guy is for the other 'real' Satoshi to prove that it couldn't be Dorian.
Simple as that. I agree that in the second case, the real Satoshi would not have a lot of incentive to prove the mistake. I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm just saying that it has not been proven that Dorian is not the guy.
