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Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat

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125 points Bostonian | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 13:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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Kapura ◴[03 Apr 25 14:00 UTC] No.43569809[source]▶
When i look around at all the positive innovations cryptocurrency has failed to deliver, it really does seem like they invented a currency exclusively useful for doing crimes.
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1. mhluongo ◴[03 Apr 25 15:04 UTC] No.43570801[source]▶
This is so incredibly ill-informed it's hard to respond to. Thanksfully, it's incumbent on the person making the extraordinary claim...

> currency exclusively used for doing crimes

... to provide extraordinary evidence.

On my end, my home is financed by a trust-minimized loan against my BTC, using a stablecoin. And I greatly prefer stablecoins to wires for paying international vendors.