From: Robert Stevens <robert.stevens@law.ox.ac.uk>

Sent: Thursday 9 January 2025 14:09

To: obligations@uwo.ca; ENRICHMENT@LISTS.MCGILL.CA

Subject: Bitcoin and Restitution

An amusing case, combining two of the things I am interested in.

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2025/22.html

The claimant, by mistake, in 2013 deposits a hard drive containing the key to his Bitcoin wallet in a landfill site in Newport. Claims that the Bitcoin now worth in excess of £600m (more than the value of the landfill site. Or, indeed, Newport.)

Seeks a declaration that either the council digs up the site to find it, or allows his team of experts to do so.

Claim is struck out. Lots of 'proprietary restitutionary' stuff.

Rob