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Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Because there is a huge number of bitcoins in the wallets believed to belong to Satoshi.

A lot of the people in the bitcoin markets just assume that those wallets will remain dormant indefinitely, and if there is any activity on them it might unnerve enough of them to cause a collapse.