$2.48B BTC transfers challenge ‘lost’ Bitcoin wallets in Satoshi lawsuit

A quiet legal maneuver to seize title to more than $200 billion in dormant Bitcoin, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s, has encountered a fundamental flaw. A lost Bitcoin wallet lawsuit in New York now faces direct on-chain evidence that supposedly abandoned addresses are actively transferring billions of dollars in BTC, fracturing the plaintiffs’ core legal premise. The dispute turns on whether dormant Bitcoin addresses c…