Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge One thing I have come to appreciate is that cryptocurrency isn’t really very good at its killer use case: crime . Today’s example comes from North Korea , where the regime’s war chest of stolen cryptocurrency is suddenly worth a lot less than it used to be. Here’s an exceptionally funny sentence from Reuters : Old, unlaundered North Korean crypto holdings monitored by the New York-based blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, which include funds stolen in 49 hacks from 2017 to 2021, have decreased in value from $170 million to $65 million since the beginning of the year, the company told Reuters. That’s a 61 percent loss, overall, for those of you keeping track at home. The crypto from one 2021 heist has lost at least 80 percent of its value, an analyst with TRM Labs told Reuters . North Korea, reached for comment at its London embassy, has called this “totally fake news,” which: lol, lmao. “No sanctions yay.” North Korea is kind of