Given Craig's history of being cast aside as an outsider in the social sphere, I think it's quite understandable for him to want to feel accepted and recognised for his erudition, pretentious as it may be at times. He also worked in security for govt, who would appreciate someone with academic clout. His character flaw of talking about more things than he understands fully doesn't detract from his knowledge of the thing that matters here...bitcoin. Also, Craig has explicitly said he is not good at real-world implementation. 'You do not want a visionary accountant'. His narrative seems coherent to me, and being superficially knowledgeable about a broad range of fields fits his self-description as a visionary who's terrible at implementation. Thus, nChain with 94 employees. I'm not fussed if he's Satoshi or not, but I don't think 'academic minds are generally terrible at real-world problem solving' and a penchant for saying 'wicked smaht' things is a strong argument against him.