Neither society nor facebook is to blame. The three foundational systems of our lives have been centralized and corrupted: money, information, politics. These systems are to blame, and the answer is decentralized systems. Decentralized money (Crypto), decentralized information (like HN), and decentralized voting (DAO's). Once we start using healthy systems, we'll get our power back and be able to fix our problems.
if he/she moves the original coins and proves that he/she is indeed Satoshi via technical competence and social consensus , then between the immense wealth and social status as the creator of Bitcoin their influence on the crypto world will be massive.
You can never decentralize power and wealth because they obey Power's law and also it happens organically and unspectacularly, it's simply a bunch of people agreeing that somebody is cool or what they are saying makes sense.
It snowballs from there and a couple of exponentials later that person is sitting on billions of dollars and a 70M people platform
Which claim? Our money is centralized via the Fed. Our information is centralized via corporate media. Our politics are centralized via Oligarchy.
These systems act to divide and conquer us, sapping our power. By switching to decentralized systems, we will be reconnected and rediscover our power. It's already happening via sites like this, crypto, etc.
Crowd-sourced content + crowd-sourced voting on visibility.
It's not perfectly decentralized of course, running on a server and centralized administration, but the general structure of the data flow is many to many.
