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Pre-Sherlock Holmes kind of level. Yes. And it's $6.3 billion stolen. I mean, some of the numbers, some of the facts here are incredible. The reporting suggests that it was because they were able to hack into one particular laptop. From that laptop, they were then able to set things up to drain a whole lot of cryptocurrency wallets in about 20 minutes. The Western news agencies are suggesting, I presume, from you.

U.S. sources and from, we understand, the U.S. Secret Service is investigating. They're saying it might have been the government of North Korea, which does have a track record. And this North Korea, of course, will deny that. I must also just say around half the money has been frozen in various ways in the chain. So you're looking at about $3 billion in various places. The problem is, still, you know, if it's Stephen's money, you probably get it. Very tricky. Although Binance does say it has resources to deal with this, it has funds, it has shares in SpaceX and things like that, which it could liquidate.

If it had to, there's a lot going on in this story, John. We haven't heard the last of this. Well, we will watch it with great interest. And of course, many South Africans have invested in crypto, so they'll be keen to get the latest. Indeed. Also, the Nasdaq opening at its lowest level in more than two months today. Bear in mind, it's been at record highs recently. The aggressive AI spending plan from Amazon Intel's use of cash had a warning on how much cash they're burning. All of that intensifies.