it doesn’t and that wasn't the premise of why we can acknowledge that using that payment network saved everyone time in the clawbacks, despite the shaken confidence that the exact same event caused into that payment network

the main distinction involved here is that not knowing who to subpeona for records slows down everything, whereas with the blockchains used most of the participants consolidate funds into KYC’d exchanges and we know which ones they went to, speeding up requests for records and subsequent action

In other words, blockchains make it easier to track what we are doing with our money, without the justice system being involved, and that’s somehow good.

the blockchains that were used, as I wrote with high intention and precision because there are other blockchains that don't offer that transparency

and then it comes to how they were used to leverage that capability, because people were not seeking to obfuscate or hide anything

if that's your actual goalpost, then don't worry, "they were holding it wrong" and you can hold it correctly to fit your needs

Wait, we recovered almost all of Madoff's money too?

Traditional finance has plenty of clawback mechanisms.

You're completely straw-manning a world in which traditional finance isn't also mostly done on KYC'ed exchanges.

I actually think Madoff is a great example of comparison, and didn't mention that because I felt someone else would call that a strawman, ironically, or at least choose to say something about the difference in the size of those frauds.

The main difference is the time, you're choosing to ignore that. 8 months versus .... how many years for Madoff? A decade?

>But the biggest sum has been in “category A crypto” tokens with large and liquid markets. FTX now has more than $4bn of crypto assets under its control, a total that has been bolstered by a sharp recovery in cryptocurrency prices.

>Bitcoin, which had dropped below $20,000 after FTX’s collapse, this week broke $30,000 for the first time since June 2022 , with other cryptocurrencies including ethereum charting a similar course.

This seems to go against your claims. - the existing assets just became more valuable in USD terms. Actual recoveries:

>Recovery efforts have more than doubled that figure so far, court filings show, including $800m in recovered cash and a further $600m in “settlements and investments receivable”.