Call me cynical, suspicious, paranoid, whatever. But it seems increasing likely to me that the Hegelian dialectic will be invoked: a major crisis will be provoked somehow, sometime. And someone will step forward, perhaps even Satoshi himself will emerge from the shadows to do it, and propose a drastic or radical change to "save" us all
And it will all have been one big trick, and the joke will be on those that blindly follow through fear.
lol... the comment about satoshi emerging made me laugh... I don't care even if jesus himself shows up No-one in bitcoin community/devs/miners/hardware makers/exchanges/users or anyone will be able reach consensus because they all have different agenda which are contradictory to each other.
That was me, not The One.
And you're wrong. Or at least I believe you could be.
Satoshi turning up now would not make enough difference, I agree with that, there's no panic now (not among Bitcoin supportres, at least
). But in a serious crisis, Satoshi reappearing and telling everyone "do this" would be very powerful, especially if some kind of time limit was involved.
And it might not even be the real Satoshi, all one needs to impersonate Satoshi is access to a Satoshi email account, Satoshi's old PGP key and maybe his forum account here on Bitcointalk. Someone began to use Hal Finney's account recently in exactly the same way.
If Satoshi returns to "show us the way" when the clock is ticking in or on the way to a major crisis, it might not even be him. Do not underestimate the lengths that the money powers will go to to keep control of the money power. Trust yourself, trust your logic. You are the one you have been searching for.