{"id":66150,"date":"2026-01-03T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66150"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:01:32","slug":"bitfinex-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein-freed-early-thanks-to-trumps-prison-reform-law-wife-calls-it-best-new-years-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66150","title":{"rendered":"Bitfinex Hacker Ilya Lichtenstein Freed Early Thanks To Trump&#8217;s Prison Reform Law\u2014 Wife Calls It &#8216;Best New Years Present&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Convicted <strong>Bitfinex<\/strong> hacker <strong>Ilya Lichtenstein<\/strong> said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42599660\/bitfinex-hacker-of-biggest-heist-ever-documentary-takes-responsibilitybut-his-wife-has-other-ideas\">prison reform law signed<\/a> by President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> led to his early release after serving part of a five-year sentence for one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts on record.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prison Reform Law Cited In Early Release<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lichtenstein, a Russian-U.S. national who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/42011697\/bitcoin-hacker-sentenced-to-5-years-for-laundering-billions-in-crypto-theft\">admitted to hacking crypto exchange<\/a> Bitfinex in 2016 and stealing nearly 120,000 <strong>bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), said on Thursday he has been released from prison early under the First Step Act, the bipartisan criminal justice reform law signed by Trump in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his <strong>X<\/strong>, he added that he plans to pursue work in cybersecurity and thanked supporters while saying he intends to prove critics wrong.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to President Trump&#8217;s First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49679783\/bitfinex-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein-freed-early-thanks-to-trumps-prison-reform-law-wife-calls?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitfinex\" hacker ilya lichtenstein freed early thanks to trump prison reform law wife calls it new years present>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein said a prison reform law signed by President Donald Trump led to his early release after serving part of a five-year sentence for one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts on record. Prison Reform Law Cited In Early Release Lichtenstein, a Russian-U.S. national who admitted to hacking crypto exchange Bitfinex in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-66150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}