By owning a lot of bitcoins you can influence the price of bitcoins and proof of stake rewards you proportionaly more. My concern was about plutocratic centralization and not a technical one, the effects can be the same though which I wrote, but edited it to prevent further misunderstandings. A monetary centralization can also lead to a 51% attack, imagine Satoshi selling a significant part of his stake, with one transaction he could drive a lot of miners out of business and buy up their infrastructure for cheap.
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I get your point, your scenario is in a world where fiat is still king and bitcoin is a mere traded commodity. in your scenario, do you envision that miners will instantly stop mining the second that satoshi's address shows sign of movement that indicates liquidation? You really need to be more detailed rather than making brief open ended comments. There are a lot of people reading.
It was an example, there are a lot of people who can dump all their bitcoins at once and make bitcoin crash to a point when power costs will exceed the worth of the mined bitcoins. If someone offers you then a fraction of your investment for your infrastructure it could be seductice to cut your losses. I'm just pointing at a possible scenario. Of course its open ended, that is the nature of talking about theoretical future events, like your open ended comment about the mutability of a 51% attack and this whole article ;)