A hacker group reportedly linked to Israel, known as “Predatory Sparrow,” has wiped out approximately 95% of the assets held on Iran’s Nobitex crypto exchange. Nobitex, which was allegedly used by the Iranian regime to bypass international sanctions through cryptocurrency, saw its wallet balances drop from nearly $1.8 billion to just over $100 million, according to sources familiar with the operation.

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Hell of a vanity address wow

That's too long for a vanity address. It looks like they burned the funds.

I'm therefore simultaneously less impressed and more impressed.

Could they have donated the funds somewhere?

technically by sending funds to a burn address to never be used again, it's a donation to everyone 🤷