{"id":733,"date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvermillerlaw.com\/media-coverage\/30-million-in-bitcoin-ordered-returned-in-cryptocurrency-class-action\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:01:09","slug":"30-million-in-bitcoin-ordered-returned-in-cryptocurrency-class-action","status":"publish","type":"news_posts","link":"https:\/\/www.silvermillerlaw.com\/press\/in-the-news\/30-million-in-bitcoin-ordered-returned-in-cryptocurrency-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"$30 Million in Bitcoin Ordered Returned in Cryptocurrency Class Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Silver Quote : <\/strong><\/p>\n \nI’m just a little guy; and if I’m knocking at this door, someone eventually will knock louder and get more results, and eventually we will reach a tipping point. A tipping point is coming\u00a0\u2014 U.S. courts and federal court judges believe they have power to enforce their orders, and in the United States of America, that’s a true fact.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A federal judge has ordered the return of 11,000 bitcoins worth about $30 million in a decision considered the first of its kind.<\/p>\n The ruling by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida stems from a class action in which plaintiffs alleged that the defendant had stolen their money and fled to China.<\/p>\n In today\u2019s cryptocurrency world, however, the legal victory might only be worth the paper it\u2019s printed on.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m unaware of any other federal court, in a federal court order, transferring the ownership of a bitcoin from one person to another,\u201d said David Silver<\/strong>, one of the lawyers for the plaintiff class in Leidel v. Project Investors Inc.<\/p>\n