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The beginning and the end are one in the same.

At a price of zero.

Alright. So, first of all, what's this about. Anyone know their manga?

We have the genesis of a new century. So, that's what that's about. This is genesis of a new century.

I'm less and less convinced that this is just an elaborate hoax. And believe me, I want SN to stay anonymous, because a myth around Bitcoin's creator will always be way cooler than reality. Time-travelling AI, Aliens, you name it ;)

I can't explain the PGP thing, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone comes up with some scenario/explanation that would make it less of a "smoking gun".

Wright is the CEO of CLOUDCROFT PTY. LTD. [1][2] (founded in 2011) and they do own the fastest privately owned supercomputer in the world, worth presumably over $100m [3]. And they seem to be running bitcoin network simulations on it. [4]

A lot of money for a small, privately owned, company. Maybe he sold ~100k bitcoin and just went and bought a supercomputer with it. The first listing of the supercomputer in the top500.org list is exactly one year after the bitcoin price ATH.

/u/nullc did a fine job of showing inconsistencies in the story, like the above mentioned seemingly backdated PGP key. But even he said that Wright's comments may be a poor job of explaining something pretty complex [5] suggesting that he is a few steps ahead and may have more information. He could also just be wrong, even as Satoshi! :P

Then we have the techcrunch comment from early 2014 by Louis Kleiman asking for any info regarding his sons involvement in Bitcoin (a little less than a year after he died). [6]

Now suddenly some people seem eager to assert that in fact Kleiman was Satoshi, not Wright, but I think that's mainly driven by the fact that they don't like the idea of Wright being Satoshi. Maybe they both were SN (or neither), but with the information we currently have, I think we can assume that academically, Wright is more likely the bigger influence of the two. But that's just my opinion at this point.