North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance
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Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $6.4 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.

  • sartalon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Exactly. Stocks weren’t meant to be traded as a way to make money. They were meant to represent ownership in a company that payed out dividends.

    But then finance bros being finance bros, figured out they could gamble against a stock’s value and potentially make even more money.

    Then it became normalized.

    At least there are rules now and some oversite. It used to be a literal secret group of men, in a room, deciding value and who gets what.