.... governments are getting interested, banks are adopting the technology, discussions are going on and many more developments...
And people are watching with monkeys listening
Bitcoin price fall : For the same reason than the above reflexion, seeing that Satoshi has moved its bitcoins will create a panic as never seen. Imagine what could be said. People could say that Satoshi is back, but his bitcoins too. Those bitcoins that were never put on the market could from a second to another being put to sell on an exchange, and considering how big his stack is, the fall will be hard
The price fall is not a given
Unless he actually starts wildly selling his bitcoins (and he has somewhere around 980,000 of them, just in case), the effect might be quite opposite, i.e. price might actually surge on the euphoria that peeps might feel when they find out that he is still alive and kicking. Or it may rise when he decides that he is going to become a benevolent dictator (like Linus Torvalds of Linux fame) and direct the development of Bitcoin from now on
I agree with you, but we're not in the same case, so here comes the difference in our visions. I had the contradictory vision that in that argument he would simply move its bitcoins without revealing himself on TV shows and in the case of veneration he would have. You're taking the option that he would
I thought about that and came to a conclusion that moving his bitcoins without revealing himself is impossible unless he moves them between his own wallets. Say, he wanted to sell some part of his bitcoins. But how could he do that without revealing himself? He would necessarily have to reveal a lot of personal info about himself which would basically mean him revealing himself. He might register with some exchange through a Tor browser, sell a few bitcoins, and what's next? He would have to withdraw fiat, but that would be impossible without a bank account or a plastic card...
And after that his identity can be firmly established by the trace of the money
With all his wealth, he could just hire a couple of gorilla-sized bodyguards, and that would solve most of possible problems
Yes he might, and that would probably solve any kind of kidnapping, but that doesn't exclude the possibility to be killed a la Kennedy
Without grasping his bitcoins first, shooting him makes no sense since he is not a politician. But after grasping his coins, shooting him makes even less sense