Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 10:32:36 AM

Quote from: davemichaelson on Today at 07:42:58 AM

Lest you think I'm just blowing smoke here: I happen to BE an attorney willing to take such cases on a contingency basis. It looks like an area with a lot of need to me, and I can't stand the idea of companies committing theft through incompetence.

Then let me ask you: How would you prove a case such as this one?

I come to you and say "I used to have 15 BTC in my Blockchain.com account but now the website says my wallet is empty and the address holding those coins has disappeared". You contact blockchain.com and they say "That never happened". Even if I can point to an address which has 15 BTC in it, I cannot prove that those bitcoin are mine, that that address belongs/belonged to me, that it was part of a blockchain.com wallet, that it used to be part of this specific wallet, and so on.

I can log you in to my wallet and show you an empty wallet, which proves nothing. Does this not just end up in a he-said-she-said situation of my word against the word of blockchain.com?

The answer really depends on the venue of your case. But in general, legal cases DO NOT start with everyone knowing the facts - quite the opposite, in fact. Cases start with allegations. With you having made your allegations in a court of law, the defendant (the company) then has an obligation to preserve relevant evidence.

Then, provided that you have made credible allegations, the court allows you to obtain documents and other evidence from the company, and to interview ("depose") the person at the company who is most knowledgeable about your allegations. You can also request the custodian of records and get into issues of whether and how the company retains information about accounts and ownership.

But you should never start on the assumption that 1) you have to start with complete evidence; and 2) the company won't provide its records. Quite to opposite is true, if you get into a court of law.