[mappum]

> maybe Satoshi sold his private keys to this guy to avoid problems in the future?

That's the best theory I've heard so far. That would explain why he chose a weak verification message (the Sartre quote, instead of a message that proves the signature to be recent). The real Satoshi would have chosen a different proof, but Wright doesn't know any better.

[xorcist]

> why he chose a weak verification message

So far, he hasn't published the verification message in full, and no signature either. The ones in the blog are dummies.

[pliny]

>The real Satoshi would have chosen a different proof

How could you know what the real Satoshi would do?

[TD-Linux]

The Bitcoin genesis block includes a newspaper headline from that day to prove that it wasn't constructed earlier ('premined').

[draugadrotten]

> How could you know what the real Satoshi would do?

mappum is - or has access to - the real Satoshi of course!

[raverbashing]

From reading the blog post referenced here it seems Craig signed other messages besides the JPS one to Gavin Andresen and other people