I don't buy, for a second, this narrative that NK would have elite hackers.
Do you guys realize how retarded that country is?
Everytime the subject comes up I can't but say we're talking about the country where official propaganda pictures trying to make believe they have military hoovercraft (as if it was a cool thing btw) are badly photoshopped.
A country with a total GDP of not even $20 billion and which cannot correctly Photoshop propaganda pictures simply doesn't have great hackers. The heist alone would be 10% of their GDP FFS.
What I do believe is that another nation state used to do very dirty things is putting the blame on NK.
But --and that's not a stab at the economist in particular-- mainstream media were also telling us that SBF was an altruistic genius making billions in arbritrage trades and that he'd make the world a better place by being an effectuive altruist.
In other words: I read between the lines.
And I take the "I cannot photoshop a picture but I can haxx0r 1.7 bn a year" with a gigantic pinch of salt.
And so should you.
P.S: how do we "know" it's NK? "Becuz them IPs are from NK". Yeah. Exactly.