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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: 0.318s | 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. ForHackernews ◴[04 Apr 25 10:30 UTC] No.43580313[source]▶
I'm sorry, on the Blockchain we don't recognize legacy concepts like dead-tree nation state laws or ancient superstitions purporting to define morality. The future is all about registering ownership information in digital ledgers.

If you wanted to retain control of your keys, you should have encoded them in a secure, nonfungible image of monkey on the Ethereum Blockchain. That way, everyone would know those keys belonged to you.