Digital Chamber Files Brief Over Dormant Satoshi Wallets
The post Digital Chamber Files Brief Over Dormant Satoshi Wallets appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Noah Doe sued for title to 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets he found by algorithm. Digital Chamber says dormancy alone cannot prove abandonment under New York law. Noah Doe never held private keys, so cannot access or move funds from any wallet. The Digital Chamber, the United States’ oldest and largest digital asset trade association, has filed an amicus brief in the New York State Supreme Court opposing a lawsuit that seeks to claim ownership of tens of thousands of dormant Bitcoin wallets, some of which are believed to be linked to Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. What the Lawsuit Claims A New York resident identified as Noah Doe developed an algorithm in 2024 to identify dormant Bitcoin wallets and ran it on his personal computer, identifying 42,001 wallet addresses that had seen no on-chain activity for at least five years. He copied those addresses onto USB drives