here is a CIA conspiracy for you
everyone knows that googe, IBM, Microsoft all have government contracts (not the conspiracy im alluding to)

now.
imagine in 2013 it was set up that these public facing subcontractors of the CIA wanted to take over bitcoin.
they ofcourse wont have 1 plan, but several plans, multi fascited, bait and switch plans. (imagine the 3 shell game)

so here goes.
firstly get some of their own staff into the ranks of the development team. just to gauge the threat bitcoin can cause the IMF and other monetary competitors.
next set up some groups that show interest in growing bitcoin, getting the community engaged and discussing new possibilities for change. all while knowing your going to fail on 2 out of 3 of the groups. (purposefully) to win "sheeple victory" of the 3rd.

so you use your staff to move over to 2 groups you purposefully want to display as going against the grain of open public monetary freedom.
firstly XT. make it very public that they hate bitcoin(r3) and publicly state it will end(hearne) and something else will replace it. publicly known to be the bankers that caused the 2008 crises and the reason bitcoin wanted something different, that was not related to bankers..
you use the 3rd shell shills to make the community aware of the negative reasons not to keep the first shell, and to stick with shell 3, winning blind support for shell 3.
thus getting people angry at a small group that would never succeed anyway(shell 1), just to divert attention away from the real growing agenda inside shell 3

next you create a group that appears to do what the community want in terms of blocksize growth. but they have shady backers that are publicly looking corrupt. again its just a 3shell game to get people to look at the two shells, giving more time for the real agenda to grow under the 3rd shell unnoticed. which you know is the winner by default

eventually out of sheer exhaustion. the community throw away the first 2 shells and settle and accept the 3rd shell

now it time to lift the 3rd shell..
surprise: they too want to kill off bitcoin and replace it with something else.

now i will leave you with this:
core->blockstream->PriceWaterhouseCooper-> Google, Microsoft, IBM

(as i said its a conspiracy theory, so take it as a bit of comedy, but not complete fiction nor complete fact)

Does it really matter who he is? The most important thing is that he left us a valuable things and to be honest he has all the reasons to remain in private. so let's respect that wish.

@Mr.Felt - The wallet belongs to Dustin Trummel.

He wrote a detailed blog about the incident

http://blog.dustintrammell.com/2013/11/26/i-am-not-satoshi/

Had Ron and Shamir done even rudimentary research into the identities of said addresses, such as a search on the Bitcoin-OTC site, Bitcoin Talk forums, or even via a simple Google search, they could have easily found that the original very early source address in question (12higD) is, very publicly, one of mine and not one of Satoshi’s as they insinuate in their paper.  This has left many people on the Bitcoin Talk forums, Reddit, and elsewhere to speculate regarding the identity of the subsequent addresses that Bitcoins were sent to from my addresses, and the owners of such addresses, as Ron and Shamir’s paper insinuates that they are related to Silk Road.

doctor said we can check out of the hospital early tomorrow morning. my baby Zeniya was born last night, at 11:13pm EST, and weighed 8lbs and 6oz!

shes beautiful and im really really happy!

ill be back and around again tomorrow night!

I think all of his public profiles may have been compromised. After the satoshi@gmx.com email hack, I no longer trust anything. The only way I would trust satoshi is satoshi, is if he moved his legendary coin stack with a signature, but even that could have been hacked somehow.
I think at some point it will just be impossible to tell if satoshi is satoshi. Actually we may be at that point already.

your own fevered imagination, you mean.

on this subject; the topic is boring. It doesn't matter who Bitcoin's creator is... the design of the system was intended to eliminate third party trust; give it some respect by respecting it's creator's desire for privacy.

gmaxwell
hehe, trolls on reddit are sometimes entertaining:
2:32 am
"Personally I like the idea of hashcash if, and only if, it's structured like a real currency as opposed to simply proof of work. In the real world you pay for resources used. In many cases this should also apply to P2P and other computer systems.
2:32 am
Of course getting hashcash workable as a real currency is extremely difficult. I've thought of a scheme that would work (coins are signed by owner and can only be changed (signed to a different owner) by owner) except you need a decentralized "central" database of all the hashcash that's been minted. Unworkable. !@#$ spend-twice problem. " ... Peter Todd in 2001, on a mailing list with Hal and
2:33 am
Adam Back
2:33 am
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/bluesky/2001...
2:35 am

Doubt it.His view on block size debate is pretty different than Satoshi's