By decision of the court, they want to recover $ 13.8 million from the Bitcoin network

The New York Supreme Court has ordered $13.8 million to be paid to a trust for Bitcoin scam victims.plaintiff's lawyers intend to cryptocurrency online, Fortune reports.

The victims represented by the trust lost funds inas a result of wallet hacks and Ponzi schemes. The defendant in the case was a certain organization Bitcoin Voluntary Associations, which, according to the plaintiff’s lawyers, is “the same as the crypto-enterprise Bitcoin.”

Court ruling based on voluntary recognitiona man named Frank M. Pohole. He said that, as a representative of the Bitcoin Voluntary Associations and the full Bitcoin node, he pleads guilty to the cryptocurrency network, which owes $ 13.8 million to the victims.

The trust's lawyers plan to recover damages,collecting them from node operators and miners. They argue that since Bitcoin is an association that is governed, everyone who receives transaction fees and operates the network should be held accountable.

It is noteworthy that the representative of the victims' trustis Christopher Earl Strunk, a New York resident who was previously prosecuted for abuse of filing a lawsuit. In 2013, he was fined $177,000 for trying to exclude Barack Obama from the presidential election based on doubts about the candidate's birthplace. The judge described Strunk's lawsuit as "far-fetched, delusional and irrational."

In addition, the plaintiff’s lawyers do not deny that Strunk and Pohl are familiar, which creates a conflict of interest.

Therefore, the American publication believes that anyan attempt to obtain funds from miners or someone else in New York and other jurisdictions by a court decision will inevitably be easily reflected in litigation.