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This is very telling.

Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the most respected cryptocurrency experts around. He's somewhat of an idol in the crypto scene.

Its interesting to see that he refused to take part in the "verification" of Wright.

"About two weeks ago I was contacted and asked to offer security
advice for a project. I was asked to sign an NDA in order to discuss
the project itself, something I am reluctant to do, in general. Once I
received the NDA however, it became obvious that the project was
related to verifying the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. I immediately
declined the offer, declined to participate and declined to sign the
NDA.

I'm sure many people will think I was wrong to decline the
"opportunity" to verify SN's identity. From my perspective, the
request for me to verify his/her/their identity is in itself an appeal
to authority. It is replacing public cryptographic proof with
endorsement by a third party. If SN wants to "prove" their identity,
they don't need an "authority" to do so. They can do it in a public,
open manner. To ask people in the space who have a reputation to stake
that reputation and vouch for SN's identity raises many red flags in
my mind. I don't know if Craig Wright is SN. I don't care and I don't
want to know.

As I have expressed many times in the past, I think the identity of
Satoshi Nakamoto does not matter. More importantly I think it serves
to distract from the fact that bitcoin is not controlled by anyone and
is not a system of Appeal-to-Authority. Identifying the creator only
serves to feed the appeal-to-authority crowd, as if SN is some kind of
infallible prophet, or has any say over bitcoin's future.

Identity and authority are distractions from a system of mathematical
proof that does not require trust. This is not a telenovela. Bitcoin
is a neutral framework of trust that can bring financial empowerment
to billions of people. It works because it doesn't depend on any
authority. Not even Satoshi's.

Back to work."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hj1xu/why_i_declined_to_verify_sns_identity_two_weeks/