ETH Hacker Gets 10 Year Jail Term, But BTC Theft ‘May Not Be Criminal’ in China
Tokens such as Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) continue to rest on uneasy legal ground in China – where an ETH hacker who struck in 2018 was recently sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars. But prosecutors in the...
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