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I mean, just to appear on the news around the world or what exactly?

money, fame, and adoration? (guess where I took those from)
though all you'll get is a lot of ridicules and a bit of infamy if you're unsuccessful.

• To sabotage or tarnish bitcoin reputation
• Craig has some debts and he can scare bitcoiners if they think he is satoshi and will sell his bitcoins to paid the debts
• To fool bitcoiners, and the mainstream media so that after that the media will just scare the non-bitcoiners
• Just plain attention whoring

You choose! (might be all the above)

Sometimes they do it to advertise a service of theirs... cheap advertising through media attention...

But at the end those persons have some problem in the head. They need attention. I think no normal person would do such thing except it's for a cool headed planned marketing campaign.

its funny because they really didn't give up and very timely that halving is coming. a certain big whale who may have thousands of btc sure can manipulate the price.
I suspect this is again another plot to make the price of bitcoin move down so they can buy more and profit come halving.

People confess to being mass murderers. Maybe killing banksters is the same thing. :)

To frighten the bitcoin whales and buying in dip caused by panic to the traders. Traders will be panic if real satoshi came in market, as satoshi still hold lots of bitcoin.

He wants easy money.

Since nobody claimed to be satoshi  till now, he thought "if i come up with a really good story then people would believe me" and it partially worked.

A good number of people know his name now. Successful.

Hmm. Good question. Or maybe a better question still is why would Satoshi claim to be Satoshi?

1. Recognition, prestige, to become a celebrity.
This seems unlikely since Satoshi has chosen to remain anonymous thus far. He has specifically chosen to not be tied to BTC.  
2. Because she/he is Satoshi and wants to dispute a competing claim.
But there is no other contender with any real evidence.
3. Because Satoshi wants to come out of the shadows and become publicly involved in the project again.
I have not heard Craig have any opinion on the questions within bitcoin. Maybe I missed it or he is going to make a statement after proving he is Satoshi.

I can imagine plenty of reasons why a faker would want to be Satoshi, but not why Satoshi would reveal himself.  ???

And if he isn't?  ;)

The real satoshi, if fully confirmed, has the power of persuasion... and a lot of bitcoins.

I am actually surprised more people have not come out of the woodwork to claim they are Satoshi.

aren't we all Satoshi?

I will be the first one to eat my words or my hat for that matter.... So many before him claimed the same thing and it turned out to be a ruse. I think the prestige amongst your peers.. will be the

highest reward for someone doing this. Just imagine the recognition a person will receive, when it turns out that you invented a technology that turned the age old fiat system on it's ass. You also

solved one of the biggest problems out there... Byzantine General's problem. This would be quite an achievement on it's own.  ;D

I don't lose anything by denying him.

I learn, I grow, it's how I've outpaced the others this long :)

Let me say this:

1. Craig Wright's personality is directly the opposite of Satoshi. Satoshi hated publicity, Craig Wright seems to adore it by the way he is acting.

2. Craig Wright's blog is full of errors and read's like a pretender's. The signature he provides is a fake, and the script he gives has a very obvious error too.

3. No one other than Gavin has been able to sway us into even considering him as Satoshi to begin with. We are basically debating all this on Gavin's word alone. Which isn't what Bitcoin's philosophy is about.

4. Craig Wright tried something similar to this back in December, and he pops up again now for Consensus 2016? Why?

5.

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-12-42-12-pm.png

Is more legit than anything we've seen from him so far pubically.

Craig Wright is not Satoshi.

Because he is an attention whore who wants to get some fame and appear in the news as he is that unknown guy .
I would not believe a person he is satoshi except the first tx ever was spent with a new fresh signature

So X group can push their agenda onto the BTC core.

I have a feeling the powers of old are attempting to use tatics that work on the mass.. utterly moronic... completely fucking retarded population.

It will not be so easy to push your agendas onto the core bitches.

At least it gets bitcoin talked about by the media again without it being a bad thing xD

Yeah it is obvious that people want to claim his name. They just want to appear on the news and this way they think that people are going to notice them.
They juts want fame it is as simple as that.

they want to be a popular all around the world,..
and of course self interest, ;)

i think only for fun. because only with claiming no one can become Satoshi. i think they are doing because they just want to get fame.

Probably to be famous and get a lot of attention from people
and also to gain some money for exclusive interviews etc.

Excellent question, answer: they wouldn't. One would expose oneself to an asston of risk, ESP if satoshi doesn't live in an established country. A corrupt gov or organized crime could take it all.

In other words, no one has an incentive to make this claim. Distrust those that do.

Fame and from there making money would be the only logic reason I think. Which is naive since we all know the got a lot of bitcoins already.
And being satoshi would mean you could prove it. If you can't prove it, it's prety stupid.

Maybe they want to be a popular all over the world.  because they will be like a sky rocket that media or any social network will spread out
 at once until they get the Fame. :-[

There are always people who want to claim that they are the maker of the bitcoin and that is not really strange because people want to own the bitcoin because the prise is rising like a idiot i see why they want to be satoshi XD

At this point of time every one wants to be Satoshi or wish they are the guy with all the fortune associated with being Satoshi but they need to prove that they are indeed Satoshi 100% because the world will not satisfy with the fake one..