Sure, but on 2025-07-02 address gets dusted with OP_RETURN saying "Our client has taken constructive possession of it" and then two days later on 2025-07-04 it gets emptied, after staying dormant for 14 years since 2011. I think the timing couldn't be more suspicious
I missed the timing indeed, I thought the dust spam happened after it was emptied, but it happened earlier. The link in their OP_RETURN doesn't work, it needs "-" instead of "_". It sounds like they're trying to make up some legal mumbo jumbo to justify
stealing 6 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin, giving the owner 90 days to respond.
How is this not
the subject of the week on Bitcointalk?
It doesn't make sense to brute-force legacy private keys, so the most logical thing would be the owner created this little scheme by himself. They've sent many similar OP_RETURN messages to other (rich) addresses, but so far I haven't seen those funds move. It could also be a little scheme to scare the shit out of Bitcoiners if they receive such an OP_RETURN on one of their addresses. It's weird!
Interesting, not 100% but think the link from OP_RETURN worked for me before, now gives me 404 but like you said changing "_" to "-" works. Indeed when talking about billions of dollars in BTC i'd think a lot of reporters would be all over Salomon Brothers asking for comments seeing how they're giving "October 5, 2025" as a supposed deadline.
Agree everything is weird about this, and the fact that OP popped up but not providing any additional info doesn't help.