I don't think creating Bitcoin was an illegal act because it was not promoted as a currency but as an Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash system.
But if this text is real and it's him, he was a bad guy in 2005:
What the chain says
- Block
- 679 834
- Time
- 2021-03-24T10:18:27Z
- Signer
- 1Hc7k8iR1SsAP62wCCKZ6U4MEYXvb5ohoh
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
Signed by
1Hc7k8iR1SsAP62wCCKZ6U4MEYXvb5ohoh Verified