Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat

When i look around at all the positive innovations cryptocurrency has failed to deliver, it really does seem like they invented a currency exclusively useful for doing crimes.

My pet theory is some government agency created bitcoin for one of two reasons:

Tracking financial transactions (open ledger).

Funding dark ops.

The whole Natoshi riding into the sunset after bitcoin booms, like an old Western movie, is not very plausible IMHO.

It is certainly odd there's been nothing from the inventors not even using the vast wealth they have squirreled away. The alternative which is honestly kind of funny is that they lost their keys so can't access the coins and thus coming forward as the inventor would just put a target on their back for people who might want to steal their keys.