Why are these people obsessed with being identified as Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin? In 2019 this
website reported a list of self-proclaimed bitcoin founder;
- Ronald Keala Kua Maria
- Pakastani Bilal Khalid and his PR firm Ivy McLemore
- Debo Jurgen Etienne Guido
- Jörg Molt
- Craig Wright
- Paul Calder Le Roux
There are more who have claimed to be Satoshi but why? Why do they want to be Satoshi so bad they look stupid to the public with all their self proclamation. In fact there are so many dangers in being Satoshi because he would be the center of every backlash, investigations, arrest warrants, and what have you. And besides, it would make no difference because he, Satoshi technically would have no say on how the bitcoin network should or should not run based on the consensus. Which other faketoshis do you know? And have you ever taken any of them seriously?
It is very simple, they want the credit regardless of any consequences they may suffer from it, now I know this does not make sense for people that are rational, however that is just the way it is, when high profile crimes happen the police gets a bunch of people that claim they have the evidence to solve the crime and it is a lie, and what is even worse, they get a lot of people providing false confessions about crimes they did not commit, and once you understand such a thing people claiming to be Satoshi is not surprising anymore.