From my understanding DPR wasn't that skilled in coding, then there was the opsec fails that are absent in Satoshi's situation.

Satoshi seemed extremely meticulous about his opsec, making sure to go to great lengths to never reveal his identity. I'm sure there are a few out there that know, but only because they were close to him during this time.

DPR from my understanding was a "crash course" programmer, meaning he learned as he went and alot of his peers were the ones to point out obvious security holes. He also had many different threads on "Stackoverflow" asking for help on how to create things that were then used against him later on because he copied the code verbatim. He created websites using his real email address (if it is to be believed) and that's how they caught him. I'm sure there was more to it than that, the story reads better than any movies I've ever seen... BUT, I definitely don't think it was Satoshi at the helm, Satoshi was just too meticulous.

I am very interested in the early mined coins though, that is an interesting lead that I've always wished we could find more about.