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>>mikeyo+(OP)
Shouldn't all true crypto believers hate this news?

It's the government trying to enforce their opinion of who should own those Bitcoins, thereby taking power away from the owner that the network has decided on, which would be "whoever has the cryptographic keys".

>>fxtent+35
Technically they were charged with conspiring to launder money, completely unrelated to any mention of theft or hacking.

From TFA: "Court papers filed against the couple did not accuse them of the hack itself; officials declined to say if the pair are suspected of stealing the money."

>>robgib+kn
All it says is that they don't yet have strong evidence to expect a conviction on hacking charges. And it's quite likely that some other people were involved in the hack itself - perhaps after this arrest, they will get some new information that will allow them to charge someone for the hack itself, for example, out of a plea deal when one of the gang turns against the others.