A couple stole $10.5 BILLION in Bitcoin and then just moved to New York and kept living normally In 2016 Ilya Lichtenstein hacked Bitfinex and stole 119,754 Bitcoin At the time it was worth $72 million They decided to just wait For years the IRS watched the coins sit untouched on the blockchain Meanwhile the couple moved to Manhattan, paid $6,500/month rent, and went about their lives His wife launched a rap career under the name "Razzlekhan" They posted public videos online Bought Times Square billboards Used Walmart gift cards to launder some of the money and that's actually what got them caught By the time they were arrested in 2022, Bitcoin had 150x'd The $72M heist was now worth $10.5 BILLION The FBI arrested them in their apartment He got 5 years She got 18 months Both were released early, he got out in January 2026, she posted a video in October 2025 saying she was already home Now here's the part nobody talks about When the hack happened in 2016, Bitfinex didn't go bankrupt They cut every customer's balance by 36% and handed out IOUs called BFX tokens Users got paid back at the original dollar value, $1 per dollar lost Not per Bitcoin lost Bitcoin was $607 when it was stolen It's worth $74,000 today The court returned the recovered 94,000 BTC to Bitfinex as the legal victim Individual users are still fighting in court just to be recognized as victims at all The hackers already walked free Bitfinex got its Bitcoin back at 150x the value it was stolen at And the actual customers who lost funds got their dollars back at 2016 prices