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The United States Department of Commerce has imposed a 10-year export privilege ban on Virgil Griffith, an Ethereum developer serving a five-year prison sentence. The ban restricts him from enjoying export privileges until April 12, 2032.The export privilege ban affects his ability to participate in international trade and business. On April 12,
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith, currently serving a five-year prison sentence, has been issued a 10-year export privilege bar by the Department of Commerce, rendering him ineligible for export privileges until April 12, 2032. The export privilege bar
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The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, alleges that the registration was set to expire on July 26, 2023, but in August, GoDaddy falsely announced it had expired on July 26, 2022. According to the filing, GoDaddy had said the domain name would be
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According to Khori Whittaker, the Executive Director of ENS, “Virgil Griffith, who was working at the Ethereum Foundation when ENS launched, was an early contributor to the ENS protocol. Because ENS is a permissionless protocol, anyone can build dApps on top of it, which is the case for Virgil’s involvement
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2 Europeans Charged With Conspiracy in Virgil Griffith North Korea Crypto Sanctions Case Original Source
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Brian Klein, el abogado principal de Griffith, instó al juez Castel a considerar factores que creía que no se habían tenido en cuenta en las pautas de sentencia de la fiscalía, incluidas las duras condiciones en el Centro de Detención Metropolitano (MDC) de Brooklyn, donde Griffith había estado detenido. Source
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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith took a plea deal after breaking sanctions against North Korea and was formally sentenced earlier today— the final chapter in a two-year journey as bizarre as it is shocking. Journalist Ethan Lou, author of Once a Bitcoin Miner, attended the infamous event in North Korea at
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Though the crime carried a maximum penalty of 20 years, Griffith’s plea deal with federal prosecutors brought the sentence down to a range of 63 to 78 months – approximately five to 6.5 years. Griffith has already spent approximately two years in custody, of which the court will count 10
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Though the potential sentence is a hefty one, it is a fraction of the maximum sentence of 20 years Griffith could have faced if he chose to take his chances with a jury trial. Griffith’s lawyers have asked the court to consider a more lenient sentence of two years, with
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In a letter to District Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York, Buterin detailed his seven-year friendship with Griffith, who he met in 2013 and began collaborating with on research in 2016. In 2018, Griffith formally joined Ethereum as a developer after Buterin said he “convinced him
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