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Tiberium • yesterday at 9:48 PM • 9 replies • view on HN

About $2.4 billion out of this is already frozen by Circle and Tether. Some of the big ones:

- 971.15M USDT (Ethereum): https://etherscan.io/tx/0x7baba482077843514d9c72bac0110ba091...

- 823M USDC (Ethereum): https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc954c86f118e8e410e6a3eb9e3b38ff4a9...

- 312.73M USDT (Tron): https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/71b0ec0fe873fe820c37cc3ec...

- 175M USDT (Ethereum): https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0c07a5e428ce233a3bcb40f257ad899594...


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schleck8 • yesterday at 9:56 PM

If your crypto was stolen in this, atleast you can rest assured that your money will be put to good use. In North Korea that is, by the military. I'm sure at this point Kim himself has Bitcoin merchandise with how often they make massive heists

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rwmj • yesterday at 9:50 PM

I thought the point of crypto was no takesies-backsies?

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extraextra • yesterday at 11:04 PM

What's the point of even stealing the stablecoins? They're controlled by private companies that can easily freeze them

Am I missing something here? Seems like a waste of time

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chairhairair • yesterday at 9:52 PM

So much for anti-centralization.

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jwpapi • yesterday at 11:05 PM

Freezing crypto is so disgusting to me I don’t know…

Like the whole point of crypto to me I money without central governance.

I never liked stable coins or the concept of it and it’s mainly a huge fraud, so freezing just adds on top.

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RobotToaster • yesterday at 10:28 PM

That doesn't sound very decentralised.

kolanos • yesterday at 10:01 PM

> About $2.4 billion out of this is already frozen by Circle and Tether. Some of the big ones:

How does freezing crypto work in this context?

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reddalo • yesterday at 10:11 PM

Frozen? What are they going to do, fork the blockchain?

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sergiotapia • yesterday at 10:11 PM

I thought crypto was built specifically to prevent these 'freezing' actions? wtf

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