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TRUSTING SOMEONE TO BE SATOSHI COULD MEAN THE END OF BTC AS WE KNOW IT.....
Trusting someone for being the real Satoshi might mean unknowingly trusting an entity who might want to destroy what the initial project meant to turn Bitcoin into and allowing a big change that may end up to be the death of Bitcoin as we know it.
You have made numerous good points, but I abbreviate your post to this and have a question.
When the Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer method of e-transaction that can operate WITHOUT TRUST, why does the question of TRUST AS TO IT'S CREATER even arise?
It should be improper on first principles.