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How frustrating would it be to be this guy if his claims were true.
Then it would be trivial to sign a message using his known wallet address that could be cryptographicly verified. But he is lying so he can't.
I don't think this guy is Satoshi but no Bitcoin wallets known to belong to Satoshi have been active since their initial transactions. I think it's likely that the keys for those wallets have been lost. So I don't think the inability to sign these messages proves that he's not Satoshi, the fraud does though.
If the keys have been lost then so has Satoshi. Otherwise any random idiot can say they're satoshi. Sucks to suck.
Look at me guys! I'm satoshi!!!!!
/s
How can that be? I'm Satoshi!
If this was the actual explanation, that would be kind of funny (and possibly ironic?)
Just the pure distillation of, "protect the private key with your life." If it can happen to the person who literally created the thing, it can happen to you.