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Craig Wright 2006

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Because holding the keys does not prove ownership.
If I have your car keys, it does not prove I own you car.
On top of that many people can hold the same keys.
He does not want to set a precedent that keys = ownership because then all you have to do is steal someones keys and they are yours.
Let's say he did sign for the general public. They would just say that he stole the keys or cracked the password. It wouldn't prove anything.
So first he needs to prove that he is Satoshi and then he can sign.
On top of that if he did sign, that automatically would bankrupt thousands of people and make him the richest man on planet earth. It would put his life and the lives of his children in danger. he has to be strategic about it. He has to prove in a court of law that he is who he says he is.

He owned 17% (that we know about) of all Bitcoin in June of 2011.
https://youtu.be/IUjoeQmfjRw?t=138

Time will tell. I for one believe he is Satoshi.

Craig Wright talks about encryption of email with quite a deep knowledge of how the encryption process works behind the simplification that is private keys. This was in 2006 btw.