I strongly support this, even as a non-shareholder.
Let's see, how far we can go with the probably first crowd funded Bitcoin lawsuit.
You are 4 years too late. Do you collect posts for raising your account level?
This case is probably hopeless. The italian police looks to be inept. The lawyer is hard to reach and waits for the police. And these fuckers look like they are so stupid that they lost all the scammed coins long ago. Not sure if even finding them and... speaking with them would yield anything. They are trash. Their mother has money but looks like she was shocked after hearing the damage they made.
So not so much hope for the money but still it would be a pleasure to see this scum going to jail.
I feel you. It would be nice (and a historic first) to see a BTC thief/scammer brought to justice and the stolen BTC returned, but I'm afraid that may never happen. In this case or any other.
It's hard enough to collect from regular fiat based frauds... if the money is gone, it's gone. If the thief has no other way to raise funds than scamming they ain't ever going to be able to pay anything back. Add BTC's stealthy easily moved, easily hidden properties it's even harder to protect from frauds and scammers. Factor in how easy it is to steal, how naive newbies are when handling it, how "Wild West" the whole ecosystem is at this point and how greedy for ridiculous overnight profits plenty new users are... doesn't look like BTC will ever have any long term use except for scamming stealing and ripping people off.
But it worked out.