If this news is anything to go by in terms of how truthful it is, then I expect quite an amount of its effect on bitcoin but the reverse is what I am seeing from my end as the price is now tending towards $1200. However, we need to educate ourselves that bitcoin has grown beyond the dream and work of a man that everything ties around him. Bitcoin has grown to the point where banks and even countries are adopting the technology with several research going on concerning the subject matter for to come to an end as a result of the death of the founder if that is even true.