Wasn't there some article some time ago that Satoshi has been discovered? Was it shown to have been fake? At least on FB/G+ it went quite viral and I haven't seen anything since.
The most high-profile speculation to date came in a March 6, 2014, article in the magazine Newsweek,[30] when journalist Leah McGrath Goodman identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, whose birth name is Satoshi Nakamoto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Dorian_Nakamot...
- If Dorian was the real Satoshi, he would of course have used his 'real' account to try to disprove the claim.
- If not, the only to way to know for sure that he is not the guy is for the other 'real' Satoshi to prove that it couldn't be Dorian.
Simple as that. I agree that in the second case, the real Satoshi would not have a lot of incentive to prove the mistake. I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm just saying that it has not been proven that Dorian is not the guy.
Not saying he would, just saying it would work.
I made a bunch of HN and reddit posts and even threads saying the Newsweek piece was very probably wrong, and was told to stop being a conspiracy nut. I even went into the official Bitcoin IRC to debate it with people, and found only 1 person agreeing with me and about 10 people against me.
It's scary to think that terrible journalism can be published and believed so easily.