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RE: Pro Bono Legal Opinion for Victims of Steem HF23 & Bittrex

in #hf235 years ago

In general Courts will have jurisdiction if either the victim or perpetrator of a crime is within their jurisdiction. In this case there are quite a few jurisdictions that meet this criteria including Texas, other US states, the UK and Australia.

I think you mean obiter dictum comments relating to Bitcoin. As far as I know there are no Courts in orbit yet :-)

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Yes, obiter, it was auto corrected. And the hacking of @community321?

@community321 was attempting to returning stolen property to its rightful owners so his his/her actions in pursuit of this are legitimate.

While the actions of @community321 were clearly not expected by the conspiracy of thieves that implemented HF23, it is quite possible that he/she had control of the keys legitimately and simply refused to comply with the illegal instructions to participate in a theft.

For example if he/she was an employee or contractor of Justin Sun or Steemit Inc and had the keys as part of his/her job, it was entirely proper to refuse an illegal instruction and instead attempt to return stolen property to its owners.