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.
Any easy way to search all transactions by OP_RETURN to see how many contain salomonbros address, to check how many were sent out vs how many were actually moved after? Because they also dusted Gox's 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF