Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $5.5 billion stolen. The rest may exceed Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.

Article is by Molly White, who you might recognize from Mastodon and web3isgoinggreat.com:

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/117526961419935070

I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out around $3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company.

  • howdy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    just imagine the Reddit bitcoiners typing “not your keys, not your crypto” 😂