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Ethereum Foundation Researcher arrested for North Korea assistance.

by cklaus on 11/30/19, 3:28 PM with 3 comments

  • by elcaminocomplex on 11/30/19, 5:03 PM

    Discussed at length yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665984
  • by fragsworth on 11/30/19, 4:59 PM

    It says he "participated in a discussion that touched on using it to evade economic sanctions."

    His defense is that "his presentation contained basic concepts that could be looked up online."

    Since this is all I see in the article, it really looks like a somewhat ignorant prosecutor over-reaching. Unless there's some significant part of the story being left out, I can't imagine he goes to prison over this.