Ethereum Researcher Pleads Guilty to Advising North Korea on How to Use Crypto to Evade Sanctions
An American cryptocurrency investigator has admitted to violate U.S. law by attending a blockchain conference in North Korea in 2019 , where he gave advice on how to parry U.S. sanctions . Virgil Griffith , 38 , has pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act , which prohibits the export of good , technology or service to North Korea by a U.S. citizen . He entered his supplication in federal court in New York on Monday , right as he was define to front tryout , with a jury selection imminent , the Wall Street Journal reports ....