The doubling down is polarizing.  If you thought wright wasn't satoshi it makes you more sure of it, if you thought he was it also makes you more sure of it.

For a scammer this is a great move:  The people who are eligible victims become more vulnerable from their increased belief and the non-victims get further away and less likely to disrupt the scam.


He's made enough false claims of patent infringement, copyright infringement, etc.  (not to mention general defamation like claiming specific people fund terrorism or support child porn) that he's really set himself up to be targeted with a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgement against his random legal threats... only missing component is that the few people with the time and money to bother consider him much of a real threat-- or even a real irritation.  But it'll could take take one more case of him harassing or threatening the wrong party before attitudes on that change.

God knows when justice will come for this fraudster but if/when it does I expect it'll ramp up quickly-- he's basically built his entire life in a fleet of oily-rag filled dumpsters.  I'll only take one match.