Citing the New York Finders Law, a man from the crypto community sues to claim 3.8 million dormant bitcoin, including Mt. Gox stolen funds addresses.

Jinse Finance reported, citing market sources: A man identifying himself as "Noah Doe" took a USB drive containing information on 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets to the New York Police Department to register it as lost property and received an official receipt. Now, he has filed a lawsuit in New York, requesting the court to declare him the legal owner of these assets. The Bitcoins involved total approximately 3.8 million, with a combined value of about $286 billion. The man claims he developed an algorithm to independently screen for these wallets and is asserting ownership of the assets by referencing a 1958 lost property statute in New York State. The first address on the list is that of the hacker involved in the Mt. Gox exchange theft in 2011. This address holds roughly 80,000 Bitcoins stolen that year, which have had no transfer records for 15 years and are now worth about $6 billion. This address has also been a long-term focus of leading on-chain analysts globally.