Why would anyone claim to be Satoshi?

[LordCoder]

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

[--Encrypted--]

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.

[RealBitcoin]

• 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)

[SebastianJu]

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.

[enhu]

• 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)

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.

[Jet Cash]

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

[~Bitcoin~]

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.

[mindrust]

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.

[RodeoX]

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.  

[akumaburn]

Boy, are you Sirs gonna feel foolish when it turns out that Dr. Wright is really Mr. Satoshi.

And if he isn't? 

[ibminer]

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

[popovicbit]

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

[nihilnegativum]

aren't we all Satoshi?

[Kprawn]

Boy, are you Sirs gonna feel foolish when it turns out that Dr. Wright is really Mr. 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. 

[akumaburn]

Boy, are you Sirs gonna feel foolish when it turns out that Dr. Wright is really Mr. Satoshi.

And if he isn't?  

This:

	Is Satoshi	Is NOT Satoshi
You denied Him	Lose infinitely	Win very little
You didn't deny	Win very little	Lose nothing
Result:	Infinite loss	Meh, 0. Nothing lost

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.



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

[Cryddit]

Craig Wright is not Satoshi.

[coinzat]

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

[spazzdla]

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.

[h3rlihy]

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

[DuckKeeper]

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

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.