An obscure firm using the storied “Salomon Brothers” name has ignited one of Bitcoin’s strangest ownership fights to date: a mass “dusting” campaign that blasted tens of thousands of legacy wallets with on-chain “legal notices” embedded in OP_RETURN messages. In a detailed forensic study, Galaxy Research links the messages to a coordinated attempt that may be laying groundwork for abandoned-property claims—though it remains unclear how any claimant could ever take control of coins without the private keys.

Bitcoin Dust Attack Sparks Legal Chaos

According to Galaxy’s analysis , an unknown, sophisticated actor sent 41,523 OP_RETURN messages from 3,738 sender addresses to 39,423 recipient addresses that collectively held about 2.334 million BTC when targeted. The vast majority—98.82%—we

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