if i had a satoshi every time some newbie advertises a shitcoin on bitcointalk as the "next bitcoin" i could have been a millionaire by now. they always do this, they find some useless junk that has copied a bunch of useless things from different places on GitHub and put them together like Frankenstein and fools newbies into buying it so that they can make profit!
You might be right but I just did a quick google search on the guy and he's actually quite notable in the space which might be saying something?
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/ he's mentioned a few times in these papers as ewll as his wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum