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Wouldn't shock me -- we know North Korea steals bitcoin all the time, and I'm sure plenty of other countries do it as well.

Not your keys, not your coins, commies

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in this case the keys were their they've been hacked by USgov

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Sounds like they should read @DarthCoin's guides then

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no guide will help you if NSA is after you, knows who you are, and your infrastructure is on the internet

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sounds like you need to read Darth's guides

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I don't

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The Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint seizing the 127,271 Bitcoin, making it the largest forfeiture action by the US.

Federal prosecutors involved in the Chen case have declined to comment on how they obtained control of the Bitcoin.

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I lol'd

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86 sats \ 2 replies \ @brent 12 Nov

It was seized in a bust of a forced labour camp in Cambodia, where expats were beaten with baseball bats if they didn't scam Westerner's over the Internet for 12 hours a day, to steal all of their money, usually via Bitcoin. These were very bad people stealing billions of dollars of value from victims worldwide. I wonder if China was complicit in the operations of these assholes.

I hope the Dept. of Justice attempts to return the funds to the victims, or to the families of the ones who committed suicide.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chairman-prince-group-indicted-operating-cambodian-forced-labor-scam-compounds-engaged

If you want to learn more about the brutal "pig butchering" scam that amassed so much bitcoin, check out Natalie Brunell's interview with one of the key people in the take-down effort:

https://fountain.fm/episode/ZQaHfwSImRcfXt5Zab2U

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it's crazy to think that many of the scammers are themselves scam victims, forced to work in scam centers. Just so weird to think about.

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Yeah it was a great but scary podcast

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CCP says bitcoin is a useless speculation without any intrinsic value and actively fights against any of their civilians trying to acquire or use it.

It is weird for them to get so worked up when something they say is worthless is stolen (allegedly).

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