Really interesting. So which jurisdiction does apply in fact? Where was the alleged theft perpetrated? In England and Wales, cryptocurrency has been deemed to be property in orbiter comments relating to Bitcoin. There are also issues relating to @community321 being hacked which would need to be investigated in my view. 💭
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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 :-)
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.