The Department of Defense has DARPA.  The CIA has multiple Black Ops.  It is not impossible that those at the Fed, Treasury, or CIA had the foresight to have created their own DARPA equivalent plans and responses, then seeded those responses as a response to the ongoing crisis.  Low and behold one of them actually took root and now we are where we are with it.

Satoshi is thought to have mined almost 1 million BTC?  Really, now...what real life person or group of people would have the discipline to resist so much temptation?  Sure, it could be those early coins were tossed away on a HDD, but I give such a genius or geniuses more credit than that.  Well, people are watching those coins now.  Perhaps someday, all will be made known.

As per my previous post, Treasury has more to gain than any other person or entity.  Follow the money...