Ethereum’s Virgil Griffith To Serve 63 Months in Prison for Unsanctioned Visit to N. Korea

Summary: Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith will serve 63 months in federal prison for visiting North Korea without the permission of the US Government Griffith also has to pay a $100,00 fine for his role in helping North Korea to use crypto to evade sanctions He was arrested in November 2019 after giving a talk at a crypto conference in Pyongyang in April 2019 Griffith’s crime carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, but he took a plea deal, having served […]