North Korea’s Bitcoin Shura Field

Nakamoto 2025-9-23 16:07 78035人围观 BTC

There is a joke on the Internet that goes like this - a little boy wants to ask his father who has invested in Bitcoin for a Bitcoin as a birthday gift. Dad asked: "What? You want $15,554? $14,354 is not a small amount of money! What on earth do you need

There is a joke on the Internet that says this——

A little boy wanted to ask his father, who invested in Bitcoin, for a Bitcoin as a birthday gift. Dad asked: "What? You want $15,554? $14,354 is not a small amount of money! What on earth do you need $16,782 for? ”

Although it is a joke, it accurately reflects the heart-stopping changes in Bitcoin over the past year.

So the question is, who is making the most money in this Bitcoin storm? Is it the mysterious Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto? Li Xiaolai, known as the richest man in Bitcoin? Or is it Buffett who never touches Bitcoin?

If you can only think of these people, then you may have overlooked an impressive and unforgettable youthful smiling face:

That's right, it's the master known as "Fat Xin" on the Chinese Internet.

Over the past year, we have been surprised to find that North Korea, a poor and backward country in our impression, has frequently had some relationship with Bitcoin, a synonym for high technology. Even Western media have believed that North Korea is ushering in a nationwide trend to engage in Bitcoin, and its actions are likely to have an irreversible impact on the global virtual currency market in 2018.……

Judging from various news broke by the media, our mysterious neighbor is not only mining on his own, but also using hacking technology on a large scale to commit international Bitcoin theft and money laundering. When our attention is drawn to nuclear weapons, a large web about Bitcoin is likely to have been quietly woven.

At the end of the year, let us review the path of "wealth freedom" of the great men of Mount Paektu.

Do it yourself, dig dig dig dig

On May 17, 2017, many blockchain data institutions detected a phenomenon: Bitcoin node activity from North Korea suddenly increased exponentially, with data from zero to hundreds of times a day.

Considering North Korea’s restrictions on the Internet, especially civilian networks. The number of computers in the entire country is limited, and the IP space is even tighter. Ordinary people can basically only go to some news and leadership websites to express their blessings to someone.

Under such circumstances, if it were said that North Korea's entrepreneurial team collectively started the Bitcoin project, it could probably be said to be "going to the grave to burn Weibo" - no one would believe it.

There is probably only one possibility, and that is that the North Korean government or military is carrying out Bitcoin mining activities in a planned manner. Since then, North Korea’s Bitcoin activity data has remained consistently high. Some people believe that North Korea's start of Bitcoin mining coincided with the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware virus. It is likely that North Korea, which is considered by the FBI to be behind the scenes, hopes to use its own mining to cover up the Bitcoins obtained through extortion.

Although more and more evidence is currently proving that the ransomware virus was ultimately launched by North Korean hacker groups. But it seems a bit far-fetched to say that North Korea is trying to cover up the situation. Judging from the style of explanation of extreme events, North Korean officials are too lazy to explain anything to anyone. Kim Jong-nam doesn’t even explain. Why bother to get some Bitcoin?

Therefore, the more likely truth is that North Korea has formulated a double insurance plan of "cultivating its own fields and stealing grain from its neighbors." And judging from the final result, it seems that stealing or robbing is faster.……

““The Lazarus Pandemic”: A year filled with North Korean hackers and cyber extortion

For much of 2017, we were bombarded with news about North Korea’s nuclear weapons or North Korean hackers.

We are not discussing nuclear weapons here, only hackers. In fact, the use of cyber warfare by such authoritarian strongmen is nothing new. Gaddafi had earlier set up a cyber army. While carrying out hacker attacks, it was also responsible for promoting and maintaining the image of the leader. It was even discovered that he was posing as a cyber army to sing praises to Gaddafi.

North Korea's Internet department is also responsible for similar functions. For example, one of the most talked-about things is that everyone discovered that there is a system on all North Korean web pages. The function is to automatically bold the font whenever the leader's name appears.……

Sorry, there are too many flaws. I can’t hold it back. Let’s go back to Bitcoin.

In June this year, the US FBI released an investigation report, which concluded that the North Korean government has been ordering hacker groups to launch attacks on the Internet for the past eight years. The goals include sabotaging military institutions, government websites, and financial institutions around the world. The most famous incident is probably the organization's attack on Sony in 2014, which was about to produce a movie that scandalized the North Korean leader. This resulted in the leakage of a large number of Sony film sources and put the stock price in danger.

However, there is a variety of evidence that this mysterious hacker organization, known as "Lazarus" by world opinion and media, has shifted its focus to Bitcoin in 2016.

For example, reports indicate that in July 2016, a North Korean hacker group compromised the user database of the South Korean shopping website Interpark and demanded a large amount of Bitcoins from the website in exchange.

Such incidents were not uncommon throughout 2017. Many banks and virtual currency exchanges in the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, and Taiwan were revealed to have been attacked and extorted by suspected North Korean hackers.

Of course, there is no doubt that the most seriously injured person can only be South Korea.……

Unlike the Chinese government’s restraint, Bitcoin has received great popularity in South Korea. At present, South Korea has become the third largest Bitcoin trading market in the world after the United States and Japan. With large Bitcoin reserves, the same language, and deep hostility, South Korean Bitcoiners seem to have no reason not to make North Korean hackers excited.

Just a few days ago, the BBC cited information from South Korea's intelligence agency NIS that South Korea's Bitcoin exchange Bithumb was attacked. Bitcoins worth 7.6 billion won were stolen, and personal information of 36,000 accounts was leaked. Afterwards, the hackers extorted 6 billion won in exchange for deleting the leaked personal information. The total amount involved is equivalent to RMB 83 million.

This is not the only unlucky guy in South Korea. In recent times, at least three Bitcoin exchanges in South Korea have suffered multiple rounds of cyber attacks, resulting in losses of thousands of Bitcoins. Considering the skyrocketing price of Bitcoin, we can only conclude that the great man of Mount Paektu probably had a good Christmas.

Currently, it has become a routine method for these suspected North Korean hackers to attack trading platforms, steal Bitcoins, and then use user data to extort more. Moreover, the means of committing crimes have matured time and time again, and the amounts involved have become larger and larger.

As similar news continues to pour out this year, the outside world has begun to pay more and more attention to North Korea's hacker army. It is reported that North Korea’s hacker force reached 7,000 people in 2017. These people can use the Internet at will, enter and leave North Korea at will, and enjoy high-end apartments in Pyongyang for free. They are a group that North Korean civilians dream of joining.

In addition, after the FBI and the White House issued statements one after another, identifying North Korea as the mastermind behind the ransomware virus, the American media, including the current government, began to criticize that the greater responsibility for that incident actually lay with the United States itself. The media generally believes that these hacking weapons were manufactured by the United States, stolen by the mysterious group "Shadow Brokers", and eventually used by North Korea to trigger attacks and extort Bitcoins.

This is also a very interesting situation: using American weapons to attack your own citizens seems to have a bit of personal heroism in "no guns, no cannons, the enemy made them for us".

It is generally believed that the codename of the North Korean hacker group is "Lazarus". This is the name of a poor man who was resurrected by Jesus in the Bible. Before Jesus resurrected him, he famously said: Whatever you ask of God, God will give it to you.

I wonder if these hackers take this as their motto……

Yes, I’m a Pixiu: North Korea’s Bitcoin Network

Don’t think that North Korea’s Bitcoin business only consists of two parts: “dig, dig, dig” and “grab, grab, grab.” According to various information disclosed by the media over the past year, North Korea has formed a complete industrial chain and protection mechanism surrounding Bitcoin theft and extortion.

For example:

1. Tight Bitcoin transfer network. Some media pointed out that in order to avoid the risk of being tracked when transferring large amounts of stolen Bitcoins, North Korea has formed an entire system of breaking up large amounts of Bitcoins, transferring them from a large number of personal accounts, and quietly transferring stolen goods without interest.

2. BitBit’s money laundering function. North Korea currently not only uses Bitcoin to exchange for foreign exchange, but also uses funds from other channels to purchase Bitcoin to achieve the purpose of money laundering. And the process is often complicated, which makes it look like a master in the currency circle.

3. Bitcoin’s security protection mechanism. It is said that there is a team in North Korea’s cyber force that is responsible for the security of the country’s Bitcoin. After all, you can't let others take back the stolen things, and the safety of the cottage is also very important.

4. Bitcoin attacks and circulation have spread beyond North Korea. Some media also believe that in order to avoid attracting attention. North Korea will lurk a large number of hackers outside its borders and use different IPs to launch cyber attacks. The more common lurking places are Northeast China and some Southeast Asian countries. And they will also station personnel overseas to carry out Bitcoin trading and other tasks, and even organize currency speculation.

Some people point out that after rapid actual combat, North Korea has become a major Bitcoin player with a strict system, clear division of labor, and full use of its resources.

And for Bitcoin, you can generally only get in and out, waiting for the value to appreciate, much like a Pixiu.

Foreign Exchange War: When Virtual Currency Becomes a Political Shura Field

Why did North Korea become crazy obsessed with Bitcoin in a year or so?

Probably the reason behind it still comes down to that word that is crucial to North Korea: foreign exchange.

We know that North Korea’s demand for foreign exchange is very urgent. Especially in recent years, the purchase of military equipment, the development of nuclear weapons, and the material life enjoyment of high-level officials must rely on foreign exchange to support the operation of the entire system.

However, North Korea is a highly closed country. It has been repeatedly subjected to economic sanctions and blockades due to nuclear weapons issues in the past two years. Currently, there are only a few ways to exchange foreign currency for it: labor export, overseas restaurants, and tourism.

Obviously, these three things cannot be exchanged for a large amount of U.S. dollars, so North Korea can only continue to "take advantage of the situation" to exchange for foreign exchange to support the expenditure needs of its military and leaders.

What we are most familiar with is, of course, the sensational North Korean drugs ravaging the three northeastern provinces. There is no need to hide it. To this day, Northeastern society is still being harmed by drugs from North Korea.

What's more, in 2014, the British "Guardian" reported that North Korea, which has long received food relief from China, actually sold China's relief grain to China in exchange for foreign exchange... This behavior can only be understood by the words of Mr. Zhuge scolding Wang Lang.

Compared to the annoying and highly dangerous nature of these foreign exchange exchange methods, the emergence of Bitcoin has simply opened up a skylight to a new world for the three young masters: strong concealment and no supervision, extremely low remote theft costs, super-fast appreciation, and waiting to get rich. The most important thing is that there are a lot of Bitcoins in South Korea!

So, what are you waiting for? Don’t be cowardly and just do it...

It is conceivable that North Korea will never give up its desire for Bitcoin in 2018, and will even intensify its desire. When a new technology becomes the focus of political games, a certain qualitative change in the industry may be imminent.

Buddhism teaches that among the six paths, there is the Asura Path. The Asuras in it take pleasure in fighting and fight to the death. The place where they fought to the death was called Shura Field. When hackers are attacking and extorting money, we are worried that virtual currency technology may not be far away from becoming the next Shura Field.

* The article is the independent opinion of the author and does not represent the position of Huxiu.com

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