Kaspersky, Russian internet security firm, said they've discovered snippets of code used in by North Korean malware in the past, suggesting that NK may be behind the attack. Then they said, but we should be wary of a FALSE FLAG attack as the CIA and NSA have created tools that enable cyber weapons to leave behind source code other countries have used, as per Vault 7. Then Microsoft came out and scolded the NSA, saying that this blood, if any, was on their hands for not telling the world what exploits remained after they lost control of their cyber weapons suite.

Of course it's a false flag attack. The BTC amount is too small to be real. No one was actually trying to stop it, except a malware blogger, who stopped it accidentally, by buying the domain it was routing through. All of this would have been easily identified by real cyber security efforts, but clearly there weren't any.

I think it goes beyond poisoning the well for support of BTC. I think it will be used as impetus to introduce legislation in various countries which give the government more power over the internet and domestic information networks. Think, "If Russia can hack our election, and North Korea can bring the world to its' knees with malware, we better let the NSA have total control of all traffic in case something worse happens."

Watch congress for the next move.