The hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korean cyber criminals in 2024, when the rogue state’s cyber attackers made off with around $1.3bn in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts Chainalysis.

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    I have never really understood exchanges tbh. Centralizing decentralized currency feels like getting the downsides of normal money/investments with fewer of the benefits.

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      It’s so the lambs can pretend to own “stock” in crypto therefore defeating the whole purpose of cryptocurrencies. And then it gets shorted and margined and bulshitted…

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      Its because crypto doesn’t work for 90% of things like people want to too so you have to use an exchange to make it faster.