I think this is a good question to ask.

I seem to be a rare individual in giving people the benefit of the doubt, especially when they have put forward an argument and I have not been able to refute it. I have been looking around to see if anyone at all who has an opinion on the matter has a refutation of that numerology-based proof. The idea is certainly is akin to the way Bitcoin works and it seems difficult to arrive at the equivalences he has shown. (Yes, choosing the right lowercase letters helps, but still.)

Perhaps I am not very intelligent but I find it strange that all I can find is educated guesses, at best. I feel this relates to how people dismiss the personal aspects of these accounts (including Wright's). Say these people are right and they're Satoshi; you have just insulted someone who has opened up in public from your position of safety or anonymity (congratulations).

At the moment, the only reasonable hypothesis I have of the claim that this is a fraud is to imagine that someone with great literary skills has come up with this personal story, with numerology to boot, and then picked the random guy who registered thebcci.net back in 2008 as the main character. Any better ideas?