But if an agency has access to that wallet, then any transactions would be visible to everybody. Activity on Satoshi's wallet after all this time would shake up the Bitcoin world pretty hard.
I don't know how sudden activity on this known-inactive wallet would accomplish any of those things.
And if the Fed had it, why would they sit on it and not say anything? the whole point of the Fed is stability, and sitting on unstable currency -- which would get even move volatile if people found out about their hidden supply -- would be a waste of time.
nothing but conspiracy mongering bunkum here
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...
Many reason to believe the NSA would be behind the digital crypto currency fad, they need the tech, and it needs to be as secure as possible
To me this sounds more plausible than the "a random dude from SF" theory
https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/884
https://www.tsa.gov/digital-id
If that's a governmental agency, it's perhaps to
- crowdfund the development of multiple technologies
- harden the security by allowing people to make money (to attract evil entities)
- mainstream the idea of a digital wallet/identity
The "bottom up" psyop