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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: 0.201s | source
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horacemorace ◴[03 Apr 25 14:01 UTC] No.43569825[source]▶
If cryptocurrencies are self-regulating, aren’t the techniques used by these hackers actually the best and most effective way to play the game by its own rules? Calling this behavior “cheating” smells of sore-loserism.
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1. metalliqaz ◴[03 Apr 25 15:05 UTC] No.43570819[source]▶
It appears crypto is just speed-running the last few hundred years on their way to modern financial regulation