I'm inclined to think there aren't many people in the world who possess the skills necessary and at the same time the need to preserve absolute anonymity at all costs.
The number of (non governmental) people in the world who intersect those two things really can't be more than a handful.
To be clear, I'm not saying I believe all this - just that there is a fair amount more to it than similar aliases. I'd be interested to see some analysis of the C++ code in both projects to see if they share any idiosyncrasies.
I don't think anyone is capable of faking that for long unless they tried to make it as generic as possible`.
The only link that the article mentions is that Satoshi used TrueCrypt. So what? TrueCrypt was the gold standard for encrypted drives which everyone in the tinfoil hat community used until it shut down.
It would be like trying to draw a link between a real person and a pseudonymous identity because both of them were known to have an iPhone.
It's no smoking gun but it's certainly interesting.
>It would be like trying to draw a link between a real person and a pseudonymous identity because both of them were known to have an iPhone.
Ridiculous. Having an iPhone is exceedingly common. Having the above mentioned qualities in common, while not unheard of, is certainly rare.