Information recently emerge that someone in North Korea has started mining bitcoin. According to Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company, on May 17 North Korea begin large mining operation. Prior to this date, there was minimal bitcoin node activity in the country.
Apparently, North Korea started the bitcoin mining process to produce bitcoin activity within the country, so they can continually move bitcoin from the ransomware wallets around while preserving deniability of the attacks, according to Recorded Future.
Who Runs the North Korea Bitcoin Mining Operation
There is still speculation about who is running the operation, but Recorded Future suggests that it is probably government. The website clarified:
"It is not clear who is running the North Korean bitcoin mining operations; however, given the relatively small number of computers in North Korea coupled with the limited IP space, it is not likely this computationally intensive activity is occurring outside of state control."
Furthermore, even accessing an Internet connection for common people in North Korea is high impossible. The government does not provide access to the worldwide web to many people why, unless those individuals are high ranking military or government officials. Most people can only sometimes access the country’s internal intranet, which only has a handful of basic websites. This is another point if why it is probable that State actors in North Korea are running the operation. At this point, no one knows for certain.
but the question here now is Do you believe that North Korean government officials are mining bitcoin?
source https://news.bitcoin.com/north-korea-begins-bitcoin-mining-operation/
