... According to the Virginia-based intelligence research firm, Recorded Future, Bitcoin mining could potentially become a major source of income for the North Korean government. ...
North Korea must be really hurting if mining Bitcoins could be a "major source of income". Right now the total yearly mining revenue is only 650,000 BTC. If you mine 20% of that and your profit margin is 20%, then your income would be 26,000 BTC, currently worth around about $94 million.
I think the North Koreans are very wise to get source of income from bitcoin mining. With all the sanctions going around they will need to find another way to survived. I just hope that this news will not have a impact, otherwise this is another negative publicity for bitcoin. $94 million would be a big help for them, assuming they mined 20%. But I doubt it, probably around 1-5% is my guesstimate coming from North Korea, if indeed they are really mining that well.
I hope I didn't end up buying coins from NK on yobit
LOL. It doesn't matter where your bitcoins come from. Similar to USD which is tainted with cocaine.