Heres a conspiracy theory for everyone. What if Satoshi was really a group of people that was comprised of the same people in the Bitcoin Foundation. What if this was all planned in the first place? Bitcoin, the Silk Road, MtGox, everything and then it had a life of its own.
Sometimes I cant imagine how Bitcoin became successful accidentally. There must be an invisible hand moving to ensure success.
My first and major concern about your theory - we know that Satoshi is owner of roughly 1.7% of all bitcoin in existence.
So tell me why he/they would want to go for all these trouble to gain petty money, compared to Satoshi's fortune?
That is why I doubt these events were planned in any way, it was simply series of unfortunate events.
But the objective is not to gain petty money. Its to ensure the success of the network. The group created their own currency out of thin air, created the first market where the banks have no way serving, so no competition for BTC and they bought and controlled the first fiat to BTC exchange which is MtGox. They also had this forum as a meeting place for offering jobs that pay in BTC.
It all started from there. I sometimes find it difficult to imagine that it was all an accident.
