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Trump has already made it clear that he's a Russian asset. The only question that remains is if he doing their bidding knowingly.
How would he go about transferring wealth to Putin & pals? He can't do business with them, because sanctions.
Russia already owns 12% of the world's crypto.
Trump can inflate their value by pulling shit like this.
Russia: profit.
There is speculation that a secondary goal here would be to weaken the US dollar as a defacto exchange currency standard worldwide if Bitcoin were to gain prominence.
That would be highly beneficial to certain "very good friends" of Trump like Putin whom would much prefer an unregulated currency that the US cannot impose controls over when presidents change.
It's not really speculation that they want to weaken the dollar and dethrone it as the world's reserve currency; it's in Project 2025. Stated goal is to transition the US back to a manufacturing-heavy economy, instead of service, tech, finance, etc. Probably won't work well, but that's what they're trying to do.
Would it surprise you if the Russian state turned out to be Satoshi and holding on to all those early mined blocks?
It would very much surprise me if Satoshi turned out to be Russian (is that what you're asking?). His whitepaper proposal is written in very fluent English, as are his other communications on SourceForge etc, also Russians are not known for their technological entrepreneurial aspirations - at least not for the last ~40 years.
To be honest I would not be surprised if whoever Satoshi is has died, rather than craftily holding onto the early minted blocks. Only time will tell if they ever get transacted.
I wouldn't think it's one person. More like a state-funded project. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, but it feels like russiayhas been playing some good 4D chess lately. Feels like the pieces are falling into place for a revelation like that.