🇰🇵 North Korea is mining Bitcoin

North Korea has been mining bitcoin since at least May 2017, according to a tech intelligence company called Recorded Future. This mining effort appears small-scale and limited to just a few machines. According to a recent report by a research unit of South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank, North Korea seems interested in the defining “characteristics of cryptocurrencies, including anonymity, difficulties of tracing money, and cashability.”