THELOGICALINDIAN - Last September Virgil Griffith pled accusable to conspiring to breach the US International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith has been bedevilled to amid 63 and 78 months of prison. In 2024, he was answerable for actionable the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which carries a best book of 20 years.
Prison Sentence for Ethereum Developer
Virgil Griffith has been bedevilled to at atomic a half-decade of bastille time for peddling blockchain technology to the amiss people.
Today, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York delivered his sentence to Ethereum developer Griffith:
“Virgil Griffith has no ideology. He’ll comedy off both sides, as continued as he is at the center. I book him to 63 months in bastille and a accomplished of $100,000.”
He is anon bedfast in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
In November of 2019, Virgil Griffith was charged for allowance North Korea “launder money and balk sanctions.” In the Spring of that year, he catholic to North Korea, area he batten at the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference. According to John Demers, the Assistant Attorney General at the time, Griffith accomplished the admirers of “one of the United States’ foremost adversaries… how to use blockchain technology to balk sanctions.”
His book was acceptable far beneath the 20-year best because he pled guilty to conspiring to breach the U.S. International Emergency Economic Powers Act aftermost September, for which he was allegedly “sincerely remorseful.”
Days afterwards the accuse were announced, Vitalik Buterin came forward in abutment of Virgil Griffith. Buterin argued that Griffith presented advice that was already about accessible as open-source software, and he apprenticed the United States to focus “on 18-carat and adverse bribery that it and all countries attempt with rather than activity afterwards programmers carrying speeches answer accessible information.”
A architect in the Ethereum ecosystem and acquaintance of Griffith, Ameen Soleimani, wrote an open-letter to Judge Castel. Soleimami acclaimed how address was in Griffith’s nature, alike with alleged enemies. For example, Soleimami reflected on Griffith’s role in allowance arch the abysm amid the Ethereum association and Ethereum Classic community. He additionally opined that Griffith’s efforts were ascendant in Ethereum actuality accounted Halal.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic BTC, ETH, and several added cryptocurrencies.
