A security researcher showed me years ago that blockchains were hackable. I don’t remember the proof, but since then have had low interest in crypto or blockchains. I’d like to make money off of it, but it’s insecure.
I'd think that if NK was sitting on a $1-10 billion Bitcoin bug, they'd execute it too before it got fixed or exploited by someone else.
That would be somewhat ironic, given the "code is law" mentality of many blockchain proponents.
I don't doubt that many people would file police reports and lawsuits if any fundamental paradigm of blockchain cryptography were to suddenly be revealed as insecure, but I'd be following the lawsuits with a big bowl of popcorn.
We'll need to find our way out of that logic eventually. Scarcity in general and proof of work in particular are terrible bases for an economy. But it is a respectable foe.