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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: 0s | 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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af78 ◴[03 Apr 25 14:25 UTC] No.43570166[source]▶
This is the opinion of Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman too, in his post Crypto is for Criming https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming.
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1. yayitswei ◴[03 Apr 25 15:17 UTC] No.43570978[source]▶
Same Krugman who wrote "Bitcoin is Evil" in 2013.