China has announced sanctions against North Korea. Opportunity for Bitcoin?

[rogerver]

China has announced sanctions against North Korea.

China has announced a series of sanctions against North Korea.

The country has restricted imports of North Korean coal and sales of jet fuel under UN sanctions.

The Security Council passed a resolution in March, which expanded UN sanctions aimed at withholding funds for the North's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. It came after Pyongyang conducted four tests in recent months.

Among the North Korean materials to be banned, some of which are fundamental to the country's revenue, is coal, iron, iron orse, gold, titanium and rare earths.

While China's restrictions allow some North Korean materials to be imported for civilian use, any trade connected to the North's missile or nuclear programmes has been prohibited. For the UN sanctions to succeed, the cooperation of China - an ally of North Korea - has been viewed as essential......

I know North Koreans don't have much access to the internet, but lots of smuggling goes on between the two countries.
Does anyone have any interesting thoughts on how Bitcoin might play a role in all of this, and helping individuals bypass national level sanctions?
Perhaps this can be turned into an outreach opportunity of some sort.

[bitkilo]

Bitcoin is a product of the internet and pretty much useless without it.
Sure you can transfer funds now via QR code on a piece of paper and an old phone but without the internet they are going to find it hard to do much with the coins.

There could be a way to use it to help people flee but not as a currency I think.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Now if only China would take action against the dictator of the other North Korea then that would be an opportunity for bitcoin.

Seriously other then a few extremely well connected people using bitcoin in ways that will hurt bitcoins already damaged reputation I don't see any effect on bitcoin here.