I often hear bitcoiners say if Satoshi returned he would be powerless to change bitcoin. That people would not defer to him. Of course I understand that Satoshi doesn't have special power technically and would just be another node on the network. Another developer who could fork bitcoin. I think bitcoiners overstate the case a bit here. Satoshi would have influence over people because most humans are easily influenced by reputation and personality. Here's my case. Even though Satoshi is missing people defer to his position or at least what they claim his position would be. Well, Satoshi meant this.. or that. What would Satoshi do? Think about how much influence Michael Saylor has. Matt Odell? Many others. I'm not saying if Satoshi came back and started shilling blockchain we'd all sell our bitcoin. I'm just saying he would have some influence. We don't need to overstate the case.
What do you think?