Approximately 16,000 Chinese investors joined civil recovery proceedings under Section 281 of Britain's Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 seeking proprietary rights to the seized 61,000 bitcoin.

How governments worldwide set rules for digital assets through legislation, agency rulemaking, licensing regimes and court fights.

The first and largest cryptocurrency, spanning its price and adoption, mining, protocol politics, and its contested role as digital money and inflation hedge.

Court decisions that shape digital-asset law, from Ripple and Coinbase rulings on securities status to criminal verdicts against exchange founders.