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North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency

7 pointsby t23almost 6 years ago

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Causality1almost 6 years ago
I&#x27;d be interested in an analysis of exactly how effectively they can make use of two billion dollars in cryptocurrency. The real-world value is going to be significantly less but I couldn&#x27;t tell you how much less. They could convert it into a harder currency but that would put it back under the same global economic restrictions as everything else. They could pay hackers with it but I suspect there&#x27;s not a lot you can do with 2 billion in crypto you couldn&#x27;t also do with 100 million in crypto.<p>Any professionals want to chime in?<p>&gt;North Korea is funding its weapons program with stolen cryptocurrency<p>Konami is gonna be pissed reality spoiled the plot of the next Metal Gear Solid game.