Legal Doctrines Test Whether Self-Custody Is Property
Courts and legislators increasingly contest whether self-custodied crypto can be treated as abandoned, lost, or forfeited property simply because coins sit unmoved, making statutory protection of self-custody rights a recurring US policy battleground.
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A lawsuit is seeking to claim dormant Bitcoin as lost property while a draft CLARITY provision would bar treating a self-custodied asset as abandoned or forfeited merely because its owner has not moved it. The clash of a legal claim and a legislative fix opens a distinct property-rights front for self-custody.
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Supporting · July 27, 2026
A Lawsuit Claims Dormant Bitcoin as Lost Property, and Congress Moves to Close the Opening With CLARITY
A lawsuit is seeking to claim dormant Bitcoin as lost property while a draft CLARITY provision would bar treating a self-custodied asset as abandoned or forfeited merely because its owner has not moved it. The clash of a legal claim and a legislative fix opens a distinct property-rights front for self-custody.
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