One of the few fascinating outcomes of the cryptocurrency world is the somewhat-established practice of "hack bounties", where someone hacks an insecure exchange or whatever, steals the funds, and then negotiates to return most-but-not-all of the funds in exchange for not being prosecuted, leaving them with a partial 'bounty' for having found the issue.
This negotiation process succeeds with impressive regularity.
I find this fascinating because it creates a sort of strange reversal of power dynamics; the thief is in control of the funds, and the operator, which may well be a wealthy corporation, typically has to publicly admit the hack, and ask and/or beg for the hacker to contact them to negotiate.
It's one of the few things about cryptocurrency that actually feel cyberpunk.
