A New York attorney has asked a state judge to unmask an anonymous claimant who wants to take legal ownership of roughly 3.8 million BTC, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s holdings.
The request landed in the New York State Courts Electronic Filing system a few weeks before an in-person hearing on July 14.
Soon, a judge will have the ability to decide whether one of the boldest property claimants in crypto history — seeking ownership of near a quarter trillion dollars worth of BTC — may keep its mask on.
The claimant calls itself “Noah Doe,” an obvious play on the John and Jane Doe placeholder names for legal procedures. Alongside two unnamed Wyoming companies, listed as “ABC Company” and “XYZ Company,” Doe sued in New York County Supreme Court.
Doe wants to obtain legal title to approximately 39,000 supposedly “dormant” crypto wallets holding roughly 3.8 million BTC.
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Let's hear from the lawyer himself, @BitcoinLawyerGuy. We can't expect him to jeopardize his case with any inside SN info, but it's nice to know he's here.
I had no idea he hangs out at SN. How did you find that out?
I introduced him to SN at a local meetup. He has made a few posts.
good luck with that scam. Will be like declaring "I own this piece of land on Mars because I say so"...
If the court goes in claimants favour, how can they actually force the property transfer?
The only thing I can see come of it is if one of the wallets wake up and transfer funds to like Coinbase and then the claimant can say "hey those are my coins, a judge said so, freeze that and return it to me!"
Either way it's all unlikely clown scenarios
bullshit
They can't. Will be just a worthless paper where it says "you are the owner of this piece of land on Mars". Good luck.
But scammers will find ways to fool idiots with that piece of paper.
Like this example
Ain’t there any chance they go after the core devs and miners?
No. They have nothing to do with this. None of them can have access to those keys.
Is it only with a hard fork that they can move funds? I remember someone posting here that there’s gonna be a Bitcoin hard fork and they’re gonna use the “lost” coins for funding.
Yes, something like that. Like Vitalik did in the past with ETH.
So literally worthless.
Good luck with that...