Yep. To go further, bitcoin hasn't been the darknet currency for a good 5 years now, these days everyone is using monero.
The North Korea is thing is just rumor-mongering, or governments pointing fingers at each other as they always do. The only eastern country I've heard publicly admit to using bitcoin is Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/bitcoin-ukrain...
The North Korea is thing is just rumor-mongering, or governments pointing fingers at each other as they always do. The only eastern country I've heard publicly admit to using bitcoin is Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/bitcoin-ukrain...