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vkou on Jan 10, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]

> It’s a fact that North Korea relies on hacking it for funding critical imports at this point…

A fact? What are the #s that they are bringing in from hacking, versus the $4.8 billion/year they bring in from exports to China/Africa?

pants2 on Jan 10, 2024 [–]

$1.8B lost to crypto hacks in 2023. Hard to say how much of that is North Korea, but it's a nontrivial amount.

vkou on Jan 10, 2024 | [–]

Lost is also not necessarily equivalent to successfully laundered.

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