North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance
www.citationneeded.news
Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $6.3 billion stolen. The rest exceeds Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.

Article is by Molly White, who you might recognize from Mastodon and web3isgoinggreat.com:

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/117526961419935070

I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out around $3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    There are still people who will insist it wasn’t a stupid idea to decide meaningless digital points like the ones you get for helping Pac-Man eat dots are real-life money now.

    • canaryWart@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      As someone who also disbelieves in crypto, I’m not sure why real-life money shouldn’t be considered fraught.