ATTENTION GRABBING. Cypherpunks != mathematicians. I find it very hard to believe that a mathematician who writes 500 page papers invents Bitcoin on the side. Mathematicians of this style live in their own world.
While somewhat plausible (and I have to admit I thought of the mathematician myself the first time Nelson presented his supposed properties), there is one reason to doubt this:<p>Building <i>both</i> Bitcoin <i>and</i> the vast framework to prove the ABC conjecture within a few years time would be too much for a single person, wouldn’t it?