I read the article and I think that they state clearly that the connection between DPR and Satoshi is pure speculation. It is true that they could as well not have mentioned it, but hey, it makes it for a more interesting reading, and as long as the journalists don't get a hold on the paper and print "DPR = Satoshi", no harm done.
>It could represent either large scale activity on Silk Road, or some form of investment or partnership, but this is pure speculation.
It's done up in clean paper form. It's got the name of a major cryptography researcher on it. It has an abstract.
Does this mean I can sit down and write a similar-form paper consisting of wild speculation about Shamir being financially in bed with the Citi Foundation specifically to write hatchet-job pieces linking trivially-discoverably innocent people to black market drug bazaars?
No, of course not. I'm a nobody. But when Shamir does it, dozens of people spread it to thousands of others and now I}ruid is almost certainly wondering whether he's going to get a knock on his door.
How much more of a dick do you have to be before people in general just agree that it was a shitty thing to do with so little evidence?
It's not interesting, it's reputationally dishonest, and damaging.
>It could represent either large scale activity on Silk Road, or some form of investment or partnership, but this is pure speculation.