I wonder if it'd be a crime to exploit a cryptocurrency and route massive amounts of money to a null address. Technically there was a lot of ““money”” lost, but you made no profit and since the blockchain is public and distributed you weren't “illegally accessing a private computer without authorization” (well, depending on the exploit). Maybe a civil suit for damages but I don't know how much a judge would be willing to indulge a plaintiff whining about fantasy money with dubious actual value.

@nytpu from what I've heard about cryptocurrency, this kind of thing has happened in the past, and it tends to just drive up the value of the cryptocurrency that remains in circulation

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