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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: 0.225s | source
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smallstepforman ◴[03 Apr 25 15:30 UTC] No.43571177[source]▶
Extraordinary claims with no way to verify, typical for WSJ. Now the question is which group benefits from policies aimed to combat this? Follow the money to see who misleads you …
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lern_too_spel ◴[03 Apr 25 15:49 UTC] No.43571436[source]▶
Who benefits from policies aimed to combat this? Western society.
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logicchains ◴[03 Apr 25 16:10 UTC] No.43571806[source]▶
Nobody in western society benefits from KYC laws, they make life hard for small business and destroy financial privacy while the big players get away with a slap on the wrist. There's absolutely zero empirical evidence of KYC leading to a reduction in the rate of any kind of crime.
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1. lern_too_spel ◴[03 Apr 25 16:23 UTC] No.43571992[source]▶
> There's absolutely zero empirical evidence of KYC leading to a reduction in the rate of any kind of crime.

We are discussing an article about a crime that KYC trivially solves.