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Ilya Lichtenstein, who pled guilty last year to charges related to the 2016 theft of 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, has made his first public statement since his 2022 arrest. In a five-minute video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, Lichtenstein reiterated that he was the hacker and that he acted alone, denying speculation in a Netflix documentary that his father (or, perhaps, some spy agency, maybe Russia’s) might have been involved in the theft. “My dad is no hacker, he doesn’t even know how to use Instagram,” said Lichtenstein, who was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering, including the time he was incarcerated after the arrest while the case was pending. “I offer my sincerest apologies to Bitfinex for all the stress that I have caused them,” he said in the video, recorded from prison during a remote visit with his wife. “I knew what I was doing was wrong and I did it anyway because I didn’t care … I look back at the person I was then, and I hate myself. I hate myself.” In the video, Lichtenstein also provided an update on restitution for the funds he stole from Bitfinex. “For the past three years, I have worked hard to account for and return all assets down to the last satoshi, as required by my plea agreement, and I will continue to do so,” Lichtenstein said, showing bags under his eyes.A restitution hearing is set for February to determine whether they should be distributed to Bitfinex or to its customers who were affected by the hack. Razzlekhan speaks Lichtenstein’s wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, pled guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prosecutors said she became aware of the hack…

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