A New Lawsuit Is Trying To Claim Ownership Of 3.79 Million Bitcoin

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Dormant doesn’t necessarily mean abandoned.

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Bitcoin doesn’t have an admin button for situations like this.

[ChewBeast]

Ownership without access is a fascinating crypto problem.

[GummyBear]

Traditional property law meets immutable code.

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Even winning the case might not move a single satoshi.

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This could set an interesting precedent even if the BTC never moves.

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The protocol doesn’t care who won in court.

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The former CEO of defunct crypto lender Hodlnaut, Zhu Juntao, has been charged in Singapore with six counts of fraud for allegedly lying to investors about hiding $190 million in losses from the 2022 TerraUSD collapse.

[Melissa Way]

Good luck getting a court order through code—"not your keys, not your coins" still rules the network.

[Krabik]

Interesting case, but without the private keys, legal ownership means very little on the Bitcoin network.