Lighten up.  This is a CONSPIRACY thread.

That means any marginally plausible posts are to be expected.  Sheesh, some of you actually believe posters are truly pushing substantive ideas.  [We're not, btw]

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Now, as I was saying:  The "satoshi" name was a brilliant misdirection which some appear to be falling for wholesale.  Same goes for the other misdirections.

Why would Treasury or the Fed do it?  Because there is no other way to pull all those trillions out of the system without blowing up the global economy.  The dollar (and all fiat) boat has been sinking since 1913 when a dollar was actually a dollar.  Today's dollar will buy what $.03 would have bought in 1913.  This is not new news; and there are plenty of smart people who have known for quite some time that propping up the global economy by printing (globally) $100-200 billion per month is unsustainable. 

Creating an entirely new government-neutral currency is a brilliant way out for any country wanting a way out of the fiat farce.  It's actually the USD that will benefit most (or is adversely affected the least) because as the current dominant reserve currency, when all the others go tits up, people will still be converting BTC to/from the USD.