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Bitcoin's caused some hilarious lessons in what "decentralized" actually means. Bitcoin isn't controlled by some nasty evil central bank; it gets to be controlled by a mostly random collection of maybe intelligent and definitely lucky people with no oversight whatsoever.

He already did:

https://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-trustee-sells-400-million-bi...

The market was recovering from the crash when this happened, and it went down the toilet again right after that.

Funnily it recovered (to die soon after again), but we have seen the Mt Gox weight in action already.

turns out that if you build something that requires zero trust, you end up not being able to trust anybody. who knew