EDIT: Dorian Nakamoto DOES speak English well and he ain't Satoshi, see article:

[SirWilliam]

http://www.businessinsider.com/dorian-satoshi-letter-and-train-2014-3

Read that, WTF?? Have any of you read Satoshi's posts? The is NOT THE SAME PERSON.

This could also explain the quote in the article. He probably didn't even understand what they were asking him, screaming at his door while the police were dragging them away. Then the editors "cleaned up" the English in the quote from Dorian.

Newsweek cover "scoop"=tabloid journalism hoax to try to bring their flailing "online only" rag back into print with a bang.

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[LiteCoinGuy]

yep, but we will have something we can talk about  

the real "satoshi guys" probably laugh about this.

[rmines]

I also do not believe he is the real Satoshi.
The real one would be smart enough not to reveal his identity and also like said before, his level of English doesn't match up what we have been reading in the past.

[eldentyrell]

He probably didn't even understand what they were asking him,

Or thought they were asking about the decade of classified government work he said he did.

[pbj sammich]

He probably didn't even understand what they were asking him,

Or thought they were asking about the decade of classified government work he did.

This is exactly what i thought as well

[rat]

it's him.

stop the butthurt.

[Vitamin]

I agree it's probably him.  It's kinda sad, this was funner when we all could dream up our own Satoshi Nakamoto.  I'd say boycott Newsweek, but I'm pretty sure nobody read it before this story anyway.

 

[amspir]

One method to answer the question of Dorian==Satoshi?  is for independent analysis comparing the known writings of Dorian and Satoshi.  

The reporter apparently used forensic analyst for the article as evidence of the link, perhaps more analysis would demonstrate more or less confidence in that link.

[HorseCoin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGdND_2b4s

[JoeyD]

Well he is Satoshi Nakamoto and he has to be the inventor of bitcoin, because he builds his own model trains. What more evidence do you need? The reporter even published his personal details, that is the best evidence you could ever get. Even his family say "things" about him.

What is a little issue like not being able to speak or write English correctly, what does that have to do with good journalism? Next thing you say and journalist should actually base their stories on facts.

[wobber]

Can anyone please start a new post with some proofs of the anonimity measures Satoshi took? I know he mentioned Tor but... that's not evidence he wanted to be that really anonymous. Maybe it's that train collector that started the project only as concept but it really took off.

[Celeris]

Haha. This unequivocally proves Dorian Sakamoto is NOT the founder of Bitcoin. Here's why:

1. Dorian's English is terrible, and the founder of Bitcoin's command of English is far superior to Dorian's.

2. According to the Newsweek article, Dorian "was pretty intolerant to incompetence." People that are fluent in English and intolerant to incompetence do not write public comments in broken, barely legible English. Especially if it is a complaint to a municipal government.

[snaxion]

Obfuscating one's digital tracks by changing one's writing style is done all the time. He even went overboard by starting sentences with lower case. Seems fishy.

[bitfreak!]

This is fairly conclusive evidence imo. I doubt he would have used such bad english on purpose knowing that this letter would be dug up at some point in the future. Plus why would he call the cops and then go outside and essentially admit to the reporter that he created Bitcoin? Makes zero sense...

[bananas]

Obviously fake Satoshi. News Weekk got in trouble.

[SirWilliam]

Wait, your saying he was obfuscating his tracks by writing letters to the editor about new railway lines in California and reviews of buttery cookies on Amazon, with his real name, while, and after, he was developing bitcoin? That is a pretty sophisticated strategy. Maybe he even got into the model trains and wore the cute hat so later when his identity was discovered then he could go back and point to those pictures to make himself look like an unsuspecting hobbyist who nobody would believe could be involved in bitcoin. The guy's a master

[amspir]

Obfuscating one's digital tracks by changing one's writing style is done all the time. He even went overboard by starting sentences with lower case. Seems fishy.

That's only one writing sample from Dorian.  It could be a fraud or an outlier.   A much bigger dataset would be required to increase confidence in the conclusion.  I'd be much more interested in the results from an algorithm designed to compare writing samples, rather than human analysis, which could be put up against control samples and other  suspected Satoshis.

[bananas]

Wait, your saying he was obfuscating his tracks by writing letters to the editor about new railway lines in California and reviews of buttery cookies on Amazon, with his real name, while, and after, he was developing bitcoin? That is a pretty sophisticated strategy. Maybe he even got into the model trains and wore the cute hat so later when his identity was discovered then he could go back and point to those pictures to make himself look like an unsuspecting hobbyist who nobody would believe could be involved in bitcoin. The guy's a master

That's possible. It also hard to believe that someone with a higher education degree obtained in the USA and being so many decades in the country writes so badly. But we have to consider that the japanese really has an issue with foreign languages.

[Raize]

Even his family say "things" about him.

I caught a relative telling friends that I created Bitcoin once. I had to explain a few things could never be said about myself and Bitcoin, and that was one of them.

[escrow.ms]

Do you really believe "Satoshi Nakamoto" is his real name when Bitcoin is pseudonymous.