But at first it just was a huge field of candidates to be quite honest, and it was all about eliminating. And this was the person who was always the strongest lead; he was from the start the strongest lead that we had. In the beginning I actually overlooked him, and it was another researcher who kind of said, What about this guy? Have we really looked closer? And we did, and then it began to build.
I wonder how they got Dorian S. in the long list in the first place. He is not an academic whose research could be connected to cryptocurrency. And on-line he is known by his current name Dorian S. Nakamoto, not Satoshi Nakamoto? Did they make the connection just based on the similarity of the names and later researched that he in fact has changed his birth name?