There is a common misconception amongst people holding stocks, crypto coins and other investments: that they equate to cash. You would not be rich if you had invested in Crypto, you would be rich if you had invested in crypto and had successfully liquidated your position.

That second bit is the hard part when you have a large volume of something since the liquidation tends to depress the price.

And in the world of Bitcoin you might end up with nothing if the exchange accidentally loses your loot (chance of which goes up as you have more money outstanding).

So any realistic scheme dealing with the liquidation of such an amount of crypto coins would be to spread out the sale over a longer period of time in small amounts to be taken back out.

Which makes me wonder how much the largest successful one-shot liquidation anybody on HN has ever done and how they did it?