Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether

[troubled soul]

Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether

Who hacked The DAO in 2016, diverting 3.6 million ether? We identify the apparent hacker — he denies it — by following a complicated trail of crypto transactions and using a previously undisclosed privacy-cracking forensics tool.

www.forbes.com

Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether​

 

[Golden Fleece]

People complain in another thread about banks being so untrustworthy. Yet the crypto space is filled with far more unsavory people. Crypto will never replace banks because you cannot change human nature. Just as the largest two Swiss banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, provided the U.S. and the EU with the leverage needed to destroy secrecy in Swiss banking, the ubiquitous criminal element in crypto will provide the leverage to cripple crypto. There is no self-policing in crypto and the moral hazard is high. The sociopaths with superior hacking skills will always prevail.

 

[KDX]

Similarly, Griff Green, whose current projects lean towards helping non-profit and public causes grow in the digital world, believes the hacker missed the chance to “be a hero.” Says Green: “He really screwed the pooch...Reputation is way more valuable than money.”

Pfft. Would you rather get called a "hero" and get a few karma on reddit or get $11 million? hero my a*s!