@Lauda - I empathize w/ Greg now. Go through some of my recent posts here, I listed Greg as preferred Satoshi candidate of mine.
You [edit - I think I meant Franky here] are correct about not having linked writing styles conclusively - although I'm not sure even the best stylometry software can do that. I haven't run the software yet b/c IRL duties; when I made the post last night, it was really late. I will also agree w/ you that my initial post is just a musing - I'm not betting Greg is Satoshi one way or another. I just think it would make sense if he were and that it is plausible.
About explaining this past year - 2015 and 2016 have had the scaling debate front and center to the extent main stream news has covered it. There have been intense debates. I think if Greg were Satoshi, I'd have a lot to reflect on especially from 2015 and 2016. Remember when Greg got called out for claiming credit for some of Satoshi's commits on Github? Remember how Gavin came to the rescue to explain that away? Such blips from the recent past take on new meaning if Greg is Satoshi.
https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4550sl/greg_maxwell_unullc_given_your_valid_interest_in/https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/45g3d5/rewriting_history_greg_maxwell_is_claiming_some/http://www.coindesk.com/gregory-maxwell-went-bitcoin-skeptic-core-developer/via @Midmagic, these tweets are interesting if Greg is Satoshi (and midnightmagic):
https://twitter.com/midmagic/status/674514614772563968 (
http://archive.is/R0R4j)
https://twitter.com/midmagic/status/76112785175617536 (
http://archive.is/jsdlW)
https://twitter.com/midmagic/status/139822645301616640 (
http://archive.is/TkuGg)
http://bitcoinvox.com/article/1041/satoshi-asked-wikileaks-to-avoid-bitcoin-in-2010https://twitter.com/midmagic/status/22863783508 <--- One of the most interesting to me, tons of reading + Jstor dump maybe offers insight into how Satoshi found an obscure 1968 article on transit networks (
http://archive.is/esGvo)
@Franky
If Satoshi was worried about being discovered from the beginning, its very possible he wrote in a way that would make author attribution analysis very difficult (i.e., mixing up spelling, punctuation, word choice). Its not that hard to copy and paste american english text into a translator that converts it into Aussie or Brit english. You can even make the text take on a pirate dialect. argh. People also take on words used by their friends. So, for example, if Greg were talking to a lot folks in the UK via ham radio, I could easily see him picking up British words:
http://www.interceptradio.com/ham.php?call=NT4TNhttps://wdtn.co.uk/2014/09/14/nt4tn-launch-event/Ham radios are very John Galt-ish, by the way.