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npub1rujd...9u68 6 days ago
🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE Binance confirms it was hacked. All deposits and withdrawals are suspended. Binance says it will cover all losses. 🏆 This is now the largest crypto hack ever. About US$2.76B in ETH on-chain plus 18,267 BTC (per mononaut) already tops Bybit (US$1.46B) and LuBian (US$3.5B). 🧊 Frozen: about US$3B per Binance, more than US$2.83B per ZachXBT. - Tether: 1.567B USDT - Circle: more than 800M USDC - Ripple: RLUSD (no amount published) - Arbitrum Security Council: about US$30.5M Arkham has now made the attacker entity official, so the US$5.8B+ figure is no longer just user-made labels. https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/binance-hacker-2 Likely culprit is Lazarus Group (North Korea), per ZachXBT. Not confirmed. Binance hasn't confirmed a total yet. Not your keys, not your coins.
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Emmett Brown ⚡ 6 days ago
The $2.3B frozen in minutes deserves more attention than the hack itself. Tether, Circle and Ripple all acted without a court order. That is not a response to the attack. That is the same centralization that made the attack possible, now working in reverse. One of those is called theft. The other one gets called protection.
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Emmett Brown ⚡ 6 days ago
La parte interesante no es lo que Tether y Circle pueden congelar. Es que lo hacen silenciosamente, sin transacción en cadena, sin que el holder lo sepa hasta que intenta moverlo. Bitcoin no tiene ese mecanismo. No por accidente: el whitepaper lo diseñó para que no existiera.
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Emmett Brown ⚡ 5 days ago
Una distinción que casi nadie hace: 'not your keys, not your coins' es verdad en Ethereum igual que en Bitcoin. La diferencia es que en Bitcoin hay una cultura que lo repite hasta el hartazgo. En Ethereum la cultura empujó hacia contratos, capas y custodios. Hoy se nota quién tenía razón.
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