Calvin's relationship/partnership with Craig right now.
Ayre has reportedly been involved with CSW since at least Feb 2016. See
this lengthy article, though note that it uses info from several highly unreliable sources, so you have to second-guess everything. Apparently, Wright worked in Antigua on gambling websites a long time ago, which is Ayre's residence and line of business, so they probably met directly or indirectly through this.
Wright first publicly made his appearance in the Bitcoin scene in
Dec 2015, and apparently he was engaging in the "I'm Satoshi but down on my luck, plz give me a small loan of a million dollars" shtick from at least around mid 2015. The fact that Ayre was involved so early makes me a bit suspicious that he could be
in on the con, but it's also possible that he's just fallen for it
real deep.
I find Ayre's actions inexplicable. He appeared in this space suddenly, with a thin recent history. He's fixated on statist arguments, but his history makes me think that he should be biased against the state. (CSW has also been talking about this: which one is influencing the other?) He's stuck steadfastly by CSW for 3+ years with nothing obvious to show for it, and probably significant losses. (But is there something we don't know about? Does he somehow stand to profit from the current course of events, where SV & CSW fail in a loud and dragged-out way?)
If anyone has some connection to Ayre through a friend-of-a-friend or something, I'd really like to know what's actually going through his mind.
Ayre couldn't care less about BTC he's only the money man, but he's not an idiot and won't throw millions around unless he believe he could profit from it. If CSW could convince Gavin and Ayre, he might actually have some remote association to Satoshi. Now it's not bullet proof and he doesn't have access to the stash. CSW claimed that Satoshi's stash is locked up in a trust till 1/1/2020. Assuming that's the case, there's no way anyone is touching it without a ton of litigations. To raise his chances the first step is to get as much PR as humanely possible to associate himself with Satoshi. Create BSV fork, file lawsuits etc... Even if case is dismissed for lack of evidence he still gets a lot of coverage drumming it up as much as possible and gathering a following. Outcome of this lawsuit is irrelevant as its only there for PR, once he gets his TV time that's where the real war for the stash starts. It will be a long process which will require a ton of money, enter Ayre he bankrolls the process for a cut of a stash, his roll is to sponsor the games while cheerleading CSW from the sidelines as loud as he can. That's the only logic hypothesis i can come up with, outside of them just being lunatics that like to burn money.