The good doctor has been on my short list of possible Satoshis for a long time...
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/bitcoin-libertarian/"There will be alternatives to the dollar, and this might be one of them," said former U.S. congressman Ron Paul. If people start using bitcoins en masse, "it'll go down in history as the destroyer of the dollar," Paul added.
"Governments absolutely demand a monopoly on money and credit. They're not going to give it up easily," Paul warned. "They will come down hard."