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North Korea is allegedly hacking bitcoin exchanges. I had read elsewhere that hacking was part of the way they funded their military endeavors. Perhaps this is one of the reasons (aside from the general one of long term control of getting hold of anything that might allow true freedom) why we have seen several announcements in the last week or so about various countries regulating or shutting down ICOs (initial coin offerings) and other crypotocurrency aspects.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/north-korea-hackers-bitcoin-ethereum/
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Here is the report from the Security firm which has done the investigation:
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/09/north-korea-interested-in-bitcoin.html
Exchanges can be hacked but the people who run these exchanges have to try to solve the problem or shut down. Such hacking does not affect the individual BTC wallets. Anyway this bit of news seems yet another indication that the NK regime is just a front for one or more geopolitical forces that have nothing to do with Korea.
Yes, I agree. They are a puppet actor.