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It really depends; cryptocurrency is so much in flux right now that governments don't know what to do with it yet, and those are the ones that determine whether something is a crime or not.

If they declare that stealing cryptocurrency is a crime, then they also need to start controlling it. Enforce auditing on smart contracts, crypto codebases, and exchanges. Which goes directly against what the whole crypto-anarchists are aiming for.

But, that's what they wanted. You win freedom, you lose security (and a lot of money).