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

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125 points Bostonian | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 13:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.017s | source
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ForHackernews ◴[03 Apr 25 14:30 UTC] No.43570239[source]▶
Kim Jong Un's keys: Kim Jong Un's coins.

Blockchain is a perfect, transparent trustless global ledger that can't be hacked, so it's a misnomer to characterise these transactions as "cheating", "crimes" or "theft".

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cvoss ◴[03 Apr 25 14:51 UTC] No.43570603[source]▶
If you unlawfully or immorally gain access to information, such as my private keys, and then use that information to move money, you have absolutely committed a crime, cheated, and/or stolen from me.

If you deceive me into executing a transaction voluntarily by misrepresenting the destination (which is immoral and often illegal), you have absolutely committed a crime, cheated, and/or stolen from me.

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1. dwater ◴[03 Apr 25 15:07 UTC] No.43570832[source]▶
What laws are a North Korean subject to that they have broken? Who decides when a transaction was cheating or stealing without a central authority and enforcer?
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2. cvoss ◴[03 Apr 25 19:43 UTC] No.43574432[source]▶
Moral laws and natural law, and moral people in a candid world. It's the same principle by which one people accuses another, over which they have no jurisdiction, of crimes against humanity or war crimes or of violating Nature's Laws. See the US Declaration of Independence for a short treatise on this topic.