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James Halver

New York lawsuit asks court to award 39,069 allegedly abandoned Bitcoin wallets

A New York man identified in filings as Noah Doe has asked the Supreme Court of the State of New York to declare him the legal owner of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets that he says were abandoned. The First Amended Complaint was filed May 1, 2026 (index No. 153119/2026) after he reported wallet-address data to the NYPD and said he spent more than a year trying to locate the owners. The dispute centers on whether long-dormant, self-custodied wallets can be treated as lost property under New York law.