Yea conducting this op at all seems like it was always going to be high risk low reward unless its a state-level actor, and if it was I doubt they'd return anything.

I suppose if their reward is in ruining blockstream, under the assumption they can't get away with the proceeds, then they could send the coin to a burn address.

I'd think it more amusing to kill 2 birds with one stone and send it to the Spark statechain and pop that delusion when they recover it.

Now they don't. If they ever lose that anon status though - any fuckup, any snitch - there's a good chance of regretful tears.

optimism

That's the rub, the hacker is anon and presumably doesn't care how 

 look, its all in service of making Blockstream look bad.

bitcoin

Liquid hacker: "You shall pay for your dereliction of duty"

Scoresby

> make it look better

That's the rub, the hacker is anon and presumably doesn't care how *they* look, its all in service of making Blockstream look bad.

On that front, they seem to be winning.