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The coin doesn't belong to Blockstream! It belongs to the LBTC holders and it is custodied by the federation. Under no circumstance should anyone but the federation that custodies it touch the coin.
Please realize how much value 4k BTC is. If NgU stays true, it is more concentrated value that for most of us, our entire lineage back to the stone age have ever touched. Massive responsibility. Also massive liability if you have access to it.
I think that this is proper. Just the public comms aren't per se.
Under no circumstance should anyone but the federation that custodies it touch the coin.
If there is an exception made for the whitehat (ie they were worried that someone else might steal the coins, so they didn't follow normal responsible disclosure, nor even seemingly reach out to blockstream other than in the moment they took the funds), then why not send it to Blockstream? If the choice is between an anon and a company with a decade-long reputation, it doesn't seem clear-cut to me that the anon is better. I like anons but I also see the value of Blockstream not wanting to torch their entire business.
If the person/group who did this really does return the funds, they will rank high in my book for integrity.
The alleged (because we don't know yet) "whitehat" is still a hacker and what they did is illegal in most jurisdictions. So they're taking a huge risk. They should not take a bounty from anything but Adam's personal dark pool of undoxxed BTC because if they take anything from a federation member they'll be doxxed and traceable. And if they used any Chinese AI tech at all, there will be an entire US justice dept full of hardons to prosecute and make an example out of them. So they better be in China or Russia too.
Nah this is super dangerous and even a 100% honest hacker can get completely destroyed over this. Hopefully you'll never have anyone to assign that rank to.
Please realize how much value 4k BTC is. If NgU stays true, it is more concentrated value that for most of us, our entire lineage back to the stone age have ever touched. Massive responsibility. Also massive liability if you have access to it.
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But couldn't they ask blockstream to provide a clean BTC address, not necessarily the liquid federation wallet and return funds to that?
I see the argument that they took responsibility for coins, but it is not good to leave the uncertainty there.