Were this to happen, we would see an attack on bitcoin like nothing we have ever seen. And now.. they would have a face to attach to it.
Think about it. The guy who invented the Silk Road has been convicted for creating a website that allowed anything to be sold without censorship. Sure, they are saying he did much more than that but the main reason for attacking him is the website.
Bitcoin is finance without censorship. It allows any illicit transaction to happen without any kind of censorship. Revealing Satoshi's identity may lead to an insane trial. All of this for a curiosity of ours.
Not only that. A group of people or even the government could force him to re-edit codes and will take him 1M BTC or probably add more 21B BTC before killing him.
That would not work, unless they had a time machine to force him re-edit the lines of code before actually making Bitcoin a thing. The beauty of decentralization is, you can only modify the real Bitcoin if the community decides it is for the better. He may have influence, but at the end of the day look at Bitcoin Cash. If no consensus is brought, there is a fork and you get to still support whatever Bitcoin was before. Even with influence and a different Bitcoin, there will be an alternative. It just would not work.
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