Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor's $2.5B lawsuit can go to trial

Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor's $2.5B lawsuit can go to trial(reuters.com)

3 points by yuriko 3 years ago | 2 comments

tromp 3 years ago |

> Australian computer scientist Wright is suing 15 developers in an effort to retrieve around 111,000 bitcoin – currently worth about $2.5 billion – after he lost the encrypted keys to access them when his home computer network was allegedly hacked.

> Judge Colin Birss said Tulip had a realistic argument that cryptocurrency is “entrusted” to network developers, who could therefore have a duty to, for example, “introduce code so that an owner’s bitcoin can be transferred to safety”.

If you lose your private keys, then you're no longer the owner of the bitcoins. Same as when you lost a dollar bill years ago. Would the judge rule that the developers of dollars. i.e. the Fed, has a duty to make everyone whole who lost their dollar bill?

andirk 3 years ago | |

Wright is quite a piece of shit at least in the way he acts. Kind of odd that such a secretive person(s) who dodged the limelight intentionally for so long turns out to be this loudmouth bitch who claims it's all his coins. I don't know the details of the case but what kind of moron would leave 111,000 BTC in one place _even if they were each only worth $1 USD_. Am I missing something here??