He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared (www.wired.com)

submitted 7 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buttcoin@awful.systems

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[-] Shalakushka@kbin.social 24 points 7 months ago

Let's see you do that with FIAT CURRENCY. Shitcoin is so much more efficient!!

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Not that you'd be able to get one, but this thing was seriously proposed

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

Even if you got one, depositing it would raise some questions.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

I got a chuckle out of the coin concept artist's name "DonkeyHotey". Very fitting.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

most sensible american administrative loophole

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 16 points 7 months ago

this was a community service!

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Non-paywalled archive: https://archive.md/H9Xcv

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The title makes it seem more impressive than he just cut some files onto a thumb drive and did a runner.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

The impressive part is the "disappeared" one really.

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