It is estimated that North Korea will have spent over $ 200 million (about 216 billion won) in virtual currency transactions last year.
In an e-mail interview with the Free Asia Radio (RFA), the former US National Security Agency (NSA) of the US National Security Agency (NSA), Priscilla Morriuchi, said on Monday (January 1), North Korea last year spent at least $ 15 million "He said.
Moriuchi, who is currently in charge of East Asia at Recorded Futura, an information analyst in the Somerville, Mass., Estimates that North Korea will have at least 11,000 virtual calls acquired by mining or hacking last year.
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http://cm.asiae.co.kr/view.htm?no=2018030208243603196$200 billion is a staggering amount. How did they come up with the estimate? It may be that the so called experts are giving too much credit to NoKor. It seems nowadays that headline grabbing cybercrimes, hacking and virtual currency manipulations all end up being blamed to NoKor. If NoKor did indeed made that much gain, they may be the ones behind bitcoin's sky high surge late last year. You know, wait for Trump and others to pressure NoKor, then invest in bitcoin because the price would then hike with NoKor desperate to get their hands on hard currency.
