Under the standard assumption that those coins will not reenter circulation, this act made everyone elses bitcoins very slightly more valuable. If that were th

Under the standard assumption that those coins will not reenter circulation, this act made everyone elses bitcoins very slightly more valuable. If that were the sender's goal it perhaps could have better been accomplished by provably burning the coins instead. So I'm dubious of that. I think it's either an accident or a publicity stunt or a very bizarre sideeffect of some deep bitcoin inside baseball.