Cryptocurrency Expert Charged With Aiding North Korea

[rose9696]

I don't know what he was thinking. If they warned him in advance, and he still went to North Korea, then he's a prize idiot.

This kind of behaviour brings cryptocurrency into disrepute.

This really does not cause the crypto market to be destroyed. This is truly the culture from the past few years of the crypto market when the capitalization has been over $ 800 billion. At that time, people realized that this is a good place to launder money and operate illegally. That is also the reason why many countries do not support crypto but only support blochkchain technology.

[ene1980]

I don't know what he was thinking. If they warned him in advance, and he still went to North Korea, then he's a prize idiot.

I am not aware of a rule that says you cannot give lecture about a technology which is publicly available and if US is having economic sanctions towards a country you cannot have any business with them is strange, i am not aware of any wrong doing by Virgil Griffith other than he went for a blockchain conference, now it is evident that his plan to go to North Korea was not a wise decision as he will be spending a long time fighting to clear his name.

This kind of behaviour brings cryptocurrency into disrepute.

These kind of behavior will bring shame on the nation for arresting someone without much proof and how the government wants to control every individual.

[rez303]

He should be arrested. I am not talking about that expert intending to convey bad ideas here, because the money laundering and manipulation that takes place in the crypto market is too much and obvious. What I resent here is that this expert supports an inhumane country! The leader is a cruelty to their people when they do not allow the nation and its people to flourish. The government wants a monopoly of a country and I always wish that this dynasty would end quickly so that the Korean people could have a real life. Do you have the same opinion as me?

[Vishnu.Reang]

He should be arrested. I am not talking about that expert intending to convey bad ideas here, because the money laundering and manipulation that takes place in the crypto market is too much and obvious. What I resent here is that this expert supports an inhumane country! The leader is a cruelty to their people when they do not allow the nation and its people to flourish. The government wants a monopoly of a country and I always wish that this dynasty would end quickly so that the Korean people could have a real life. Do you have the same opinion as me?

Let's not mix politics here. I don't have a very good opinion about North Korea. But at the same time, they don't invade third world nations for the oil resources, like what the United States did in Iraq and Libya. They didn't created terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda and Taliban, in order to fight the Soviet Union. If he violated the sanctions, then he should face the punishment. But don't use that opportunity to push forward the NATO political agenda.

[sockpuppet1911]

Maybe you should read further.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1201182901062307840.html?refreshed=yes
https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1200532461890854912
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/12/02/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-virgil-griffith-arrest-cryptocurrency-north-korea/
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/12/03/ethereum-developer-virgil-griffith-released-pending-trial-cryptocurrency/

Still, he should have known better. You don't want to be co-operating with the countries that are on the black list. Or if you want to do that, you should know that there will be consequences.

[asus09]

He should be arrested. I am not talking about that expert intending to convey bad ideas here, because the money laundering and manipulation that takes place in the crypto market is too much and obvious. What I resent here is that this expert supports an inhumane country! The leader is a cruelty to their people when they do not allow the nation and its people to flourish. The government wants a monopoly of a country and I always wish that this dynasty would end quickly so that the Korean people could have a real life. Do you have the same opinion as me?

Let's not mix politics here. I don't have a very good opinion about North Korea. But at the same time, they don't invade third world nations for the oil resources, like what the United States did in Iraq and Libya. They didn't created terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda and Taliban, in order to fight the Soviet Union. If he violated the sanctions, then he should face the punishment. But don't use that opportunity to push forward the NATO political agenda.

North Korea looks not interested with bitcoin and altcoin as digital payment currency and focus keep war with United State and South Korea, they have try to wake up their technology war faced bad moment with their country at the future, maybe the North Korea have good economic financial but they are never interested for adopting bitcoin and altcoin as legal currency.

[kotik085]

I would not cross borders at all in his place, why? If this is done with the help of his direct work, then yes, but this way is caught. Buterin will not take action.