Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith pleads guilty to helping North Korea dodge US sanctions

I knew him when he was younger. Hung out some with that crowd in SE2600 years back.

I always thought of him as helpful, a good guy, just pure curiosity and intellect. I have a hard time picturing him screwing up like this on purpose. How did the US screw up that amazing human resource?

It used to be that the older monster minds helped guide younger ones. Sometimes you can get so into technology that you fail to think about nationstate bs that can get you in trouble.

He was involved in memestreams.net. That used to be a cool site but it was leaning more and more to the left.

Seemed many of the best started out libertarian but then got more liberal.