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It's literally called bit-coin.


And North Korea's official name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("DPRK").

What's your point?


The analogy fails because calling it Bitcoin implies a desire for it to be viewed as a currency, not an asset, in the same way DRPK implies a desire to be viewed as D, P and R.




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