Jun 7, 2026 5:23 PM
Your dormant Bitcoin isn't a "long-term hold"—it’s lost property. Under New York’s lost-and-found laws, reporting inactive wallet addresses to the police can grant a finder legal title to $293 billion in BTC if the owner doesn't respond within 90 days. Inactivity is legally equivalent to abandonment, making thousands of Satoshi-era wallets fair game for the first person to "find" and report them. Should silence and inactivity mean you lose the legal right to your assets?
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