Quote from: chennan on October 03, 2015, 05:50:52 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on October 03, 2015, 04:35:18 PM

Quote from: smooth on October 03, 2015, 08:01:28 AM

The argument has been made by quite a few people that satoshi's alleged stash is a cloud over the market since he could decide to start selling it at any unknown time.

Satoshi could also decide to reinvest his stash back into Bitcoin R&D, education, marketing, bootstrapping, etc.

Imagine the headlines if He started to pay people (in highly-collectible OG Bitcoins) to teach farmers/tutors/doctors/unbanked/emigrants how to use Bitcoin!

I really don't think it will make the "headlines" you're thinking about, when it comes to mainstream news picking up on it... but in the bitcoin community it would be huge news. But why would he pay people to "teach" them how to use his coin? That doesn't really make any sense.

I speculate that if satoshi is alive he/she values privacy and has little need for large sums of money. Therefore the coins may sit idle for many years before being used.