Ethereum dev who gave lecture on crypto in North Korea released from prison – DL News
- Virgil Griffith has been released from prison.
- The former Ethereum developer received a five-year sentence in 2022.
Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith was released from prison on Wednesday after serving almost five years behind bars.
Griffith was sentenced in 2022 to 63 months in prison for assisting North Korea with evading sanctions.
His release from a Michigan low security prison comes on the conditions of parole and work restrictions, according to Brantly Millegan, executive director of the Ethereum Identity Foundation, who first shared the development on X.
VIRGIL GRIFFITH IS OUT OF PRISON!!!
just released this morning! he’ll be in a halfway house for a few weeks, and parole after that with work restrictions (so a pardon is still…
