North Korea has made headlines in the Cryptocurrency market. This comes after the last village chop. North Korea’s state -backed hacker group Lazarus has been active for several years now. But the attack of $ 1.4 billion on village bit put the group under the crypto frame. The group was formed back in 2010 and has implemented several attacks ever since. As a result, Cryptocurrency began to investigate the group’s bitcoin (BTC) holding.
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How did North Korea become one of the largest holders of BTC?
The North Korean cyber group has 13,562 BTC, or about $ 1.14 billion, after converting ETH to BTC after the village chop. North Korea is now the third largest government in the world with Bitcoin Holdings. The UK, with 61,245 BTC, and the United States, with 198.109 BTC has taken over the first two places.
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BTC’s price today
The Bitcoin market has struggled to recover. Although he hit a maximum time of $ 109,114.88 at the beginning of the year, the asset was 23% below this peak. Bitcoin was priced at $ 83 237.89, at the time of writing. This comes after a small increase of 0.32% over the past 24 hours. Earlier today, the BTC market spoke its investors when it fell to a low of $ 81,179.99.
