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🅰️ The $14 Billion Ghost Wallet 🟠The biggest BTC heist in history just got unmasked — and it’s been silently sitting on-chain for almost 4 years. 🟠On December 28, 2020, someone drained 127,426 BTC (then worth $3.5B) from Chinese mining pool LuBian — in a single tx. No one ever publicly claimed the breach. No “we got hacked.” No “we’ll reimburse.” Just… silence. 🟠At its peak, LuBian controlled 6% of Bitcoin’s hashrate — it was the 6th-largest pool on Earth. Overnight, 90% of its BTC vanished. Another $6M was slowly peeled off in follow-ups. The remaining 11,886 BTC? Frantically scattered across cold wallets. 🟠In a desperate move, LuBian tried to negotiate through 1,516 OP_RETURN messages, burning over 1 BTC just to beg the hacker to return the funds. No luck. By early 2021, LuBian disappeared — blamed at the time on China’s mining crackdown. 🟠According to Arkham, the pool likely used a weak key-generation algorithm. That’s right — they may have literally brute-forced themselves into oblivion. 🟠Here’s the kicker: the hacker never cashed out. That wallet — yes, still untouched — is now worth $14.3B. That makes them the 13th richest BTC holder alive. 🟠While regulators and lawmakers scream about Tornado and dev arrests, a wallet with $14B in stolen Bitcoin quietly lurks on-chain. No bridges. No mixers. No arrests. 🎭 In the end, LuBian didn’t fall to CCP bans or market pressure — it got outplayed by a keyboard and a bad RNG. ➡️CRYPTO ROAST
🅰️ The $14 Billion Ghost Wallet

🟠The biggest BTC heist in history just got unmasked — and it’s been silently sitting on-chain for almost 4 years.

🟠On December 28, 2020, someone drained 127,426 BTC (then worth $3.5B) from Chinese mining pool LuBian — in a single tx. No one ever publicly claimed the breach. No “we got hacked.” No “we’ll reimburse.” Just… silence.

🟠At its peak, LuBian controlled 6% of Bitcoin’s hashrate — it was the 6th-largest pool on Earth. Overnight, 90% of its BTC vanished. Another $6M was slowly peeled off in follow-ups. The remaining 11,886 BTC? Frantically scattered across cold wallets.

🟠In a desperate move, LuBian tried to negotiate through 1,516 OP_RETURN messages, burning over 1 BTC just to beg the hacker to return the funds. No luck. By early 2021, LuBian disappeared — blamed at the time on China’s mining crackdown.

🟠According to Arkham, the pool likely used a weak key-generation algorithm. That’s right — they may have literally brute-forced themselves into oblivion.

🟠Here’s the kicker: the hacker never cashed out. That wallet — yes, still untouched — is now worth $14.3B. That makes them the 13th richest BTC holder alive.

🟠While regulators and lawmakers scream about Tornado and dev arrests, a wallet with $14B in stolen Bitcoin quietly lurks on-chain. No bridges. No mixers. No arrests.

🎭 In the end, LuBian didn’t fall to CCP bans or market pressure — it got outplayed by a keyboard and a bad RNG.

➡️CRYPTO ROAST
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