North Korean Citizens Know Little of Crypto

The KDB report additionally declares that normal North Koreans "seem to have little information of digital forms of money," Yonhap noted. Refering to "ongoing meetings with North Korean deserters," the report asserts that "every one of them answered that they don't think about cryptographic forms of money in the North."

In November a year ago, the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology gave a course on digital currency, bitcoin, and blockchain innovation. It was driven by Federico Tenga, an Italian bitcoin business visionary. "The participants of the addresses were a blend of software engineering and fund understudies, yet in some cases likewise a portion of alternate teachers of the college came to find out about the subject," Tenga revealed to NK News. The production included that "as indicated by Tenga, the understudies knew about bitcoin yet demonstrated constrained information of the digital currency."