A United States district choose has authorised the federal government’s movement for order authorizing various notification procedures within the case of the funds recovered from Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan from the Bitfinex hack.
This approval will permit the US to put up a notification concerning the case on the Division of Justice’s (DoJ) massive instances web site “out of an abundance” of warning in order that people who might doubtlessly increase claims have a possibility to take action.
Nevertheless, the US authorities additionally notes that it “is not aware of any person who qualifies as a victim… beyond perhaps Bitfinex.”
The Bitfinex Hack Haircut
This case facilities round funds recovered from Lichtenstein and Morgan after they pleaded responsible to laundering the proceeds of the 2016 hack.
The hack is without doubt one of the largest thefts of bitcoins ever, and in response, Bitfinex haircut many buyer accounts, changing the funds of their accounts with a particular BFX token representing the losses.
The consent order particularly claims that Bitfinex represented to the US authorities that “iFinex Inc. allocated the losses from the hack across all customer accounts. This resulted in an approximately 36% reduction in account value across all accounts.”
They really did pay, simply not the 36%, and what they paid ended up being greater than if they only took the 36% haircut, obtained their BFX and bought it shortly thereafter.
— Zane Tackett (@tackettzane) January 20, 2022
Nevertheless, this seems to not be the total reality. Zane Tackett, a former Bitfinex government, has beforehand acknowledged on X (previously Twitter) that Coinbase didn’t obtain the identical haircut as different accounts on the platform.
This remark from Tackett confirmed earlier reporting from Nathaniel Popper.
Protos reached out to Bitfinex for touch upon this obvious discrepancy, however it didn’t reply earlier than publication.
