Somebody paid 80 cents to write eight words into the Bitcoin blockchain:
"we are whitehats. contact us on chain."
Four hours earlier they had walked out of Liquid with 3,998 BTC. $320 million. 95% of everything in the vault.
They didn't steal a key. They didn't break the 11-of-15 federation. What happened next has no precedent.
We made a 6-minute film about it. 📺