I have to wonder if anyone's considered the idea that in some deep state team, they were developing the means of doing a controlled CBDC, and along the way, someone decided to take what they had and put out a liberating standard instead of going forward with it.

Alternatively, we could get paranoid: it's a deep state project all along, designed to bring people into developing the more controlled systems, and at some point Satoshi's coins will "leak" all at once, causing a flash crash as a huge flash of liquidity floods the market. This isn't terribly unlike the prospect of what happens when quantum computers break the early wallets (and really, could happen all at the same time, as presumably Satoshi's coins aren't using modern solutions aimed at mitigating the quantum threat). At the end of the day, provided enough wallets ARE safe from the quantum threat, this would likely just be a bit of volatility (and the biggest buy-on-dip opportunity in a long time), but wouldn't necessarily be a kill shot. Time will tell.