That’s because those wallets belong to Satoshi Nakamoto and if his coins move, all hell breaks loose.
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Speculating About Satoshi’s Next Move Is Wargames for Bitcoiners
Governments frequently play out wargames in which they enact various doomsday scenarios.
Speculating about what would happen if Satoshi’s coins were to move is bitcoin’s wargames equivalent.
On the one hand, coins moving from Satoshi’s wallet would induce market panic at the prospect of one million BTC being dumped by their owner.
If the CIA or NSA created bitcoin, moving coins from Satoshi’s wallet is crypto’s very own Mutually Assured Destruction.
There’s nothing remarkable about a bitcoin transaction; it happens hundreds of thousands of times a day. But there’s one set of addresses whose contents are watched with hawk eyes. Should so much as a satoshi move from one of those wallets, it will spark global headlines and make the markets go loco.
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