do you think they also got Satoshi's stash?
i have to believe if the US government knew him already then he could be under their watch all the time or he must have been detained underground already or buried under the desert. for the US government, the world is just too small not to see everyone actually. the world is just like their small village with 7 houses.
I don't know all that. I don't even know if they really know satoshi's identity. I am just making an educated guess. The chances are they know it because their power has no limits compared to a single individual no matter how smart that individual is.
Satoshi does not control bitcoin and bitcoin is controlled by the community, so whether there is Satoshi or not, bitcoin will still operate in a decentralized.
satoshi owns 1 million btc. If those coins move, it will be catastrophic.
We all think and act like satoshi's coins aren't there. Like they are lost coins. If they move, we'll know then somebody can dump it on the markets. People will panic sell. Bitcoin might not recover from it again. 1 million coins we are talking about here. The devs will have to do a hard fork to prevent this probably and forge a new chain where satoshi blocks don't exist.
Even if the main dev team (core) don't do it, some miners can form a minority chain like how they did it with bcash years ago. Either way it won't be good. Again it will create another war.
Team 1: We are betrayed, satoshi betrayed us!!!
Team 2: This is the original chain, satoshi has to eat as much as anybodie!!
If BTC drops down to $1000, some people will buy the dip.
On the other hand, tons of miners will be forced out of business... maybe GPU mining will become profitable again, who knows.