The revived Solomon -Brothers announced Thursday that it has completed the process of inserting up_return — Messages to Bitcoin
Wallets are assumed to be abandoned.
According to a press release shared with Coindesk, the New York-based investment bank will send the messages to prevent “frivolous states and criminal organizations with significant resources” from potential access to these wallets in the future.
The process itself has created a wealth of debate, with speculation suggesting that the Solomon brothers have ties to people like Craig Wright.
“[They] Uses Bitcoin’s own infrastructure as a bulletin board, “David Carvalho, CEO of Naoris Protocol, told Coindesk.” It’s very smart. And they go big and target some infamous wallets such as the “1FEX” address containing about 80,000 BTC. “
According to the Solomon Brothers website, assets that have been untouched for 14 years can be considered legally abandoned during a “doctrine of remission”, thus leaving the front door open with regard to repayment.
The method of accessing these wallets remains unclear, Carvalho told Coindesk that the Bitcoin community “does not” do what needs to be done “to prevent methods like Quantum Hacking.
“The draft bee -proposal is completely inadequate, and reaching agreement on a hard fork will take so long that it will be too late. Considering 6.51 million Bitcoin value of $ 700 billion is at stake, it is dizzying how slowly the Bitcoin community moves,” he added.
The Solomon brothers said its client, who remains anonymous, plans to assign part of the recovered Bitcoin to a fund intended for wallet owners who lost their keys whose details will be released in the coming months.
The messages sent to the wallet owners give a deadline of 90 days within which they can “demand ownership” of the wallets by sending a transaction or filling out a form on the Solomon Brothers website.
The press release notes that “Some owners responded to the messages by moving their digital assets to new wallets.”
