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Cryptocurrencies have no way to unilaterally accomplish that.

Bitcoin can’t stop anyone from knocking down your door and taking your belongings. It doesn’t work without access to communication technology. It doesn’t do anything to circumvent barriers to trade in the physical world. Trade requires two transfers. And, you can’t eat a bitcoin.

The only people in NK who have the ability to use bitcoin in trade are the political elite.

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You can store crypto in your head, and you can certainly use it to put together funds which would be helpful to escape.

I'd really like to hear how you think that would physically take place.

If you had the ability to relatively risk free assist an NK defector and knew doing so would give you access to large economic reward, why would you choose not to?

How would you send someone in NK cryptocurrency? And if you could, how would they use it to escape?

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