🚬 An unusual lawsuit has been filed in New York — plaintiffs want to obtain through court the right to 39,069 long-inactive Bitcoin addresses, where approximately 3.7 million BTC may be stored, including wallets of early miners, Satoshi, and the Mt.Gox hacker.

The logic is as follows: if coins do not move for years, they are trying to be recognized as "abandoned property" by analogy with old bank accounts.

But even if the court agrees, it's almost impossible to claim these BTC — without private keys, the Bitcoin network cannot transfer coins to another owner.

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