A New York lawsuit filed by Noah Doe and two LLCs seeks ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses, potentially holding $285 billion, raising questions about abandoned property laws and Bitcoin's legal treatment.
A Welsh couple were forced to pay their £2,000 monthly mortgage twice after PM Property Law collapsed before completing their remortgage from Halifax to Nationwide. Gabriella and Kurtiss Smith of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, had to borrow £6,000 from family and friends to cover payments to both banks while the solicitors' firm shut abruptly in February. The law firm's parent company, PM Law Group, is under investigation by South Yorkshire Police and the Solicitors Regulation Authority for suspected fraud involving almost £40m in client funds. Halifax has since refunded the additional payments and apologised.
