Highly unlikely and looks like a creative fiction writing exercise. Author did some homework (looked at the Bitcoin prototype, Trammell & Dai emails, and forum analyses) but not enough, and makes some pretty glaring omissions: where's the goldbug aspect? Why was he so interested in online poker? Why does the PDF author claim to have not known of Usenet timestamping initially, when reading the Trammell emails shows he clearly was familiar with Usenet before it came up? Why the lame excuse 'my writing style has changed' (much for the worse, as well) for why it sounds nothing like Satoshi? Why the casual mention of AS without mentioning that the sum total use of AS would have been a boatload of money for a 20yo, especially one also supposedly paying for a bunch of servers doing CPU-mining for years? Why the antiquated C++ coding style especially if he is supposedly super young? Why use AWS, which is hardly very anonymous? And he's switched wordprocessing software too? etc.<p>(A lazy exercise too. At least the 'Satoshi Nakamoto' from last year went to the trouble of providing 'draft' whitepaper and sample source code, rather than a rambling 20-page memoir which hasn't been spellchecked.)
Dumb fraud. True and indisputable verification is so easy that any cloak and shadows semi-believable mimicry lacking proof can be simply dismissed out of hand.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is another hoax. If it genuinely was Nakamoto they would not provide such detailed family information. There cannot be many publishing companies, even small ones, created by a woman, we would assume 50 years ago if it was his grandmother. Then we are looking for one with a daughter who is an author and narrow down from there based on whether they had children of a relevant age.
A great case in point for Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...</a>