Excellent read. I think Satoshi doesn't need to be affiliated with anyone really. Reason? He assembled publicly available knowledge from systems that pre-existed. He just refined and merged the designs (public designs).
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I agree to an extent although there are also ramifications depending on who was involved. Besides that I think some people miss that really bitcoin is just an experiment that is set for blind peer review like any other properly done presentation of a theory. Its just that the nature of the conjecture is such that the experiment could not be done in a lab (otherwise people would just say, "sure it works in the lab, but governments will just shut it down in real life".