>Sure, but Occam’s Razor applies. Why go to such lengths to sow disinformation in a private communication? It would have been far simpler for Hal to have just responded at a different time rather than leaving this proverbial needle in the haystack that would have never been revealed had Hearn not published the emails.

Occam's Razor, as the author enjoyed using, would suggest that someone knowingly creating a rival to a hegemonic currency system would need plausible deniability as to who they are and what they are doing. Having a partner in crime would not be inconceivable and they wouldn't need to be Satoshi.

"Hal used tabs while Satoshi used spaces (this is a massive never-ending debate between developers)

Hal preferred his debug statements not to be indented while Satoshi’s maintained indentation with surrounding code

Hal made comments with block style multi-line markers while Satoshi preferred to create many single-line comments with double slashes

Hal used snake_case for his function names while Satoshi used camelCase

There are probably far more differences that are more subtle, but these jumped out from just a few minutes of eyeballing the codebases."

These are irrelevant. Someone of Hal's intelligence and skill who was a decades long cypherpunk would understand the importance of obfuscating ones own styles. Lastly, I find it interesting that the Silicon Valley elite did the ice bucket challenge 2 weeks before Hal died.