alt Hacker NewsWhat'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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Apparently [1], he managed to put them as collateral on a lending platform. That allowed him to borrow ETH. The way it works is that if you don't pay back the loaned ETH, the lenders can take the collateral. Except that here the collateral is itself frozen. So apparently, the ETH as now safe in the hacker's wallet and the lenders just lost a bunch of money.
I wonder why not swap them? And had he, would it have bricked the swap pool?
In this case it looks like the attacker managed to swap some stablecoins into ETH before they were frozen.
I'm not clear whether the stablecoin providers will then be "creating" new coin to make binance whole - without which you've still fucked binance
It reveals what they are to the public. It's fake crypto with all the downsides of crypto but none of the upsides.
> waste of time
It seems like it took some number of minutes and scored billions, and at that point it was a matter of whether/how much they could trade out before it was locked. I don’t know how many minutes or hours it took to lock? If they managed to trade 1% before blocking, that would be an extra tens of millions. If 10% that would be hundreds of millions, etc.