An American programmer has been criminally charged for traveling to North Korea to teach cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
Grace HauckA U.S. programmer known as"Romanpoet" has been criminally charged for traveling to North Korea to teach cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to evade economic sanctions, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
In April of this year, Griffith gave a presentation called"Blockchain and Peace" at the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, despite that fact that the State Department had denied him permission to travel to North Korea, according to the federal complaint. Griffith was also planning to facilitate the exchange of cryptocurrency between North and South Korea, the complaint says. He encouraged other U.S. citizens to travel to North Korea, intended to renounce his U.S. citizenship and began researching how to purchase citizenship from other countries, the complaint says.
In a profile in the New York Times Magazine in 2008, writer Virginia Heffernan referred to Griffith as a"troublemaker,""twerp" and "magnet for tech-world groupies."
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