While I *in principle* agree with the spirit of what @rizzlarolla is saying, perhaps there are other scenarios that should be explored, for example who would want to discredit BitCoins? Real Banks or even law enforcement who might perceive (without understanding the power of BlockChain), that crypto currencies are a threat?
Could be, but i don't believe satoshi was involved. Therefore, it was not the original setup.
Maybe theymos sold the forum. We would not know that?
But could equally be someone who loves btc. Just got greedy. Wants loads of Bitcoin.
i think that the degradation of Bitcoin is only a temporary side effect, not the long term goal.
(in such a case, they probably wont think they are degrading bitcoin?)