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Re:Tiny Things Matter – The Story of a Stellar Lumens Exploit by paulpauper on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:37AM (#18784340)
as far as i know the recovery rate for stolen crypoto currencies is zero
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Re:Tiny Things Matter – The Story of a Stellar Lumens Exploit by atomical on Saturday December 29, 2018 @01:32PM (#18784981)
The FBI has seized Bitcoin a few times. It's likely that stolen cryptocurrency will be recovered in the future because of chain analysis and exchanges like Coinbase that want to score points with regulators.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/04/fbi-silk...

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Re:Tiny Things Matter – The Story of a Stellar Lumens Exploit by paulpauper on Saturday December 29, 2018 @03:05PM (#18785408)
that was a huge exceptional case. most thefts are smaller and don't attract much attention. anyone who is smart enough to steal a lot of coin is not gonna dump them on coinbase. They are more likely slowly tumble them and sell them offline or on small exchanges.
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Re:Tiny Things Matter – The Story of a Stellar Lumens Exploit by atomical on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:42AM (#18788491)
Small thefts of crypto are compareable to small theft of cash in the real world?
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Re:Tiny Things Matter – The Story of a Stellar Lumens Exploit by nindwen on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:46AM (#18784381)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/ethereu...

There have been other similar cases.

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Re:Tiny Things Matter – The Story of a Stellar Lumens Exploit by Scoundreller on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:48AM (#18784392)
Exchanges have sometimes protected users from their exchange hacks. With varying success.

And wasn’t there a hard fork rollback for DAO?

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