It is true tha te name/identity of Satoshi is not requried and should have no impact on Bitcoin itself.
However, it may be exciting for some of the members of bitcion (a minority) to find out who satoshi actually is having kept his identity secret for several years.
Dr Wright says he wrote the first blog post to show off his intellectual capabilities. Forcing everyone to read that wall of waffle just annoyed us all, especially when it contained zero proof. He should just sign a message from the genesis block and post it on his blog, if he can.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36193006The trouble is that Dr Wright's blog has not convinced the wider public.
He had told me last week that he intended it to be convoluted. He wanted to show those who doubted his intellectual capabilities that he really knew what he was talking about - instead he has managed to make them more suspicious.
That is probably because the wider public have not seen Dr Wright's Blog