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BREAKING: The Craziest Bitcoin Lawsuit in History
A man using the name "Noah Doe" has filed a lawsuit in New York to legally claim ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets.
These wallets hold around 3.79 million $BTC, worth nearly $285 billion. They include early miner addresses, one tied to Satoshi, and the famous Mt. Gox hacker wallet.
Here is how he did it:
He built an algorithm to find abandoned wallets. He reported them to the NYPD as lost property. He sent on-chain notices and ran a public claim campaign for over a year. Nobody came forward, so now he is asking the court to declare him the legal owner.
But here is the catch most headlines miss:
Even if he wins, he gets ownership on paper only. He still has no private keys. That means the Bitcoin can never be moved or spent. This is a legal title fight, not a recovery of $285 billion.
Analysts also flagged that many notices went to empty address versions, while the real BTC sits in older wallet formats.
This case could shape how courts treat dormant crypto forever.