I've always been really turned off by this religious fawning over random crypto personalities.
the primary similarity is that fans get married to the first personality they get exposed to and elevate that person. just like religion. there is nothing objective about that, there is nothing important about Charles Hoskinson's "surprise Ask Me Anything"
Adam Back has always been floated as a creator for like a decade
“I’ve been very vocal lately on this. I think that first, it doesn’t matter but second, it’s probably Adam Back. If you look at the preponderance of the evidence, Occam’s razor applies and the most likely answer usually is, and there’s no mystique or magic there but he just fits the profile. You’re looking for somebody who’s in their 40s to 50s who created Bitcoin in 2008. That would fit Adam. English education, grammar, all that stuff, the right computer science background, exactly the right credentials you’d look for. You probably can get pretty far with code stylometry towards validating that.” [1]
The most credible candidate is someone who was very familiar with and keen on its technology, yet did not engage publicly in the first few years [2].
[1] https://tokenpost.com/Charles-Hoskinson-Believes-One-Person-...
[2] https://chainbulletin.com/the-unmasking-satoshi-aftermath