• firebyte@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’ve often heard about these legitimate fears, though why would revealing Satoshi’s real identity destabilise the bitcoin economy/make him a target?

    Genuinely unsure.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      2 hours 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.