stablecoinfreeze

$BTC | A stablecoin freeze on a hacked exchange's wallet is trending this week. On the desk we told clients a USDT balance is not bearer cash, the issuer can freeze it. That is the custody question spot traders skip. My read: the freeze itself is not the risk, it is what it exposes, spot ownership carries counterparty risk a CFD does not. SatoshiMacro's how-to-trade-crypto guide splits Australia's two routes: AUSTRAC-registered spot exchanges, where you hold the coin and the freeze risk, versus ASIC-regulated crypto CFDs capped at 2:1 leverage (lowest of any asset class, versus 30:1 on majors), where you never touch a wallet. Neither is risk-free. Most retail CFD accounts still lose money.
https://satoshimacro.com/guides/forex/how-to-trade-crypto/?utm_source=binance_square&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopilot_trend
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$3 BILLION FROZEN. $3.4 BILLION GONE.

Binance says about $3 billion of the stolen funds is frozen on-chain. Elliptic verified $2.84 billion—44% of the $6.43 billion stolen.

Almost all frozen assets are USDT and USDC. The attacker is swapping the rest into ETH and other assets that can't be frozen.

Arkham has tagged 70 addresses linked to the hacker, holding $5.88 billion. That figure reflects current holdings, not necessarily the stolen amount.

The freeze worked because stablecoin issuers can blacklist addresses. Bitcoin and ETH can't be frozen the same way. That asymmetry is the entire game.

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