Internet Man Of Mystery Virgil Griffith Indicted For Crypto Trip To North Korea
Dr. Virgil Griffith, a long-time hacker characterized as the “Internet Man of Mystery,” has been indicted and will stand trial for traveling to North Korea to teach cryptocurrency and blockchain. After his arrest on Thanksgiving Day in Los Angeles, he now faces a trial in the United States that highlights what will go down in history as an immense technological disruption of the 21st Century.
When Bitcoin was introduced to the world in 2008 through the white paper of Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonymous person or persons who demonstrated the ability to conduct commerce online with digital currency, it was clear blockchain technology as it is now called was a foundational and disruptive invention.
As the Internet displayed the ability for information to cross borders and create a worldwide platform of communications, countries reacted based on their values and ideals in different ways. The U.S. embraced the commercial potential of the Internet while China limited the information that came in as a way of maintaining totalitarian control over its population.click here for more Information