I'm not implying the guy is Satoshi, just saying that we probably figured out who had the privkey's for that address without writing a bad paper in the process. When you look at the guys resume it's not surprising he would have heard about it early on and been interested - security consulting.
It's official for more than a month.
I can't blame the "scientists" for having the suspicion that Dustin Trammell is Satoshi. I thought so too, because the owner of 12higDjoCCNXSA95xZMWUdPvXNmkAduhWv mined a coin when the blockchain was only 10 days old, just one day after Satoshi sent his very first test transaction to Hal Finney. I blame them for connecting the owner of this address to SR though.
Facts we know for sure:
Dustin D. Trammell a.k.a. I)ruid was a member of 'The Cryptography Mailing List" and (one of) the first miner(s). He is the owner of 12higDjoCCNXSA95xZMWUdPvXNmkAduhWv and dumped his coins in June 2011 (worth $1.7m then) when Bitcoin was very volatile (after the first media attention of Silk Road and Bitcoin) on Bitcoin OTC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=311216.0It's not suprising that his coins went throgh SR because back then demand for Bitcoin was mainly driven by SR users. It's very likely that he sold to people who spent their coins on SR.