If bitcoin was controlled by satoshi or even if bitcoin had an active owner, we would not have seen such rise in bitcoin prices. You can compare the prices of altcoins which are controlled by the owners as they have a major portion of the coins that they can dump on us anytime or change algorithms.

These days if you hear bitcoin manipulated by whales or exchanges, it only means that they have bought a lot of bitcoins and therefore the pump and dump from them have a large impact on the order books.

- Who knows though? If we're to talk about conspiracies, anything is possible. If He/She or the team behind the name satoshi is still really out there breathing, I highly doubt that they have no idea why these fluctuations are actually going on and may even be a part of the whole thing. Pretty fun to speculate about honestly.

- Indeed. I even say most of the time to just ket the guy(s) be because they clearly don't want to be found considering how they tried to hide their presence to this extent.

- Each to his own I guess. Because despite respecting their decisions of not wanting to be found, or not wanting to encourage people who seeks attention, I myself am still very interested who the brilliant mind(s) really are that started all of this and made the existence of this industry possible. My curiosity when it comes to this subject is just very wild; wanting to know how they started out the very thought of bitcoin, what type of person or people they are, are they like most geniuses out there that are different like Elon, Vitaly, etc., or are they normal people like us who loves to socialize, have fun and so much more. Most of all, I guess I want to really hear a deeper explanation about the plans they had, what things they expected and did not expect to happen when they started along with their hopes for bitcoin in the coming years and what they would want to change about it if they could.

Lol, I seem to have blabbered too much. But again, each to his own xD