13-year-old Bitcoin wallet moves $33.4M amid Noah Doe case

A Bitcoin wallet classified by Galaxy Research as 13Coop and Noah Doe 970 transferred 411.45 BTC, worth about $33.4 million, yesterday after more than 13 years without a transaction, sending the funds to a single new unnamed address. The wallet is among 39,069 dormant addresses that a New York lawsuit filed this year by pseudonymous plaintiff Noah Doe and two Wyoming corporations seeks to treat as abandoned property under the state’s finders law. The suit covers wallets holding nearly 3.8 million BTC, but the plaintiffs do not have the private keys; moving the coins shows the address was actively controlled, contrary to the claim.