• flyuphighflyuphigh
        ·11-01
        Bitcoin just got punched in the face by the biggest crypto heist in history — and the market is still shaking. Late last week, Binance confirmed a record $6.3 billion theft from its hot wallets across multiple chains. Blockchain forensics firms (TRM Labs, Chainalysis) and now the FBI have attributed it with high confidence to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group (part of the broader Lazarus ecosystem). This dwarfs the previous record $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025 — also blamed on the same actors. Roughly $3B has already been frozen by stablecoin issuers and partners, but the rest is still moving. Scapegoat or real? North Korea has a long, documented track record of using crypto theft to fund its weapons programs. Chainalysis previously estimated they stole over $6.75B by end-2025 alone. The speed
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      • flyuphighflyuphigh
        ·11-01
        Bitcoin just got punched in the face by the biggest crypto heist in history — and the market is still shaking. Late last week, Binance confirmed a record $6.3 billion theft from its hot wallets across multiple chains. Blockchain forensics firms (TRM Labs, Chainalysis) and now the FBI have attributed it with high confidence to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group (part of the broader Lazarus ecosystem). This dwarfs the previous record $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025 — also blamed on the same actors. Roughly $3B has already been frozen by stablecoin issuers and partners, but the rest is still moving. Scapegoat or real? North Korea has a long, documented track record of using crypto theft to fund its weapons programs. Chainalysis previously estimated they stole over $6.75B by end-2025 alone. The speed
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