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Feds: U.S. Programmer Virgil Griffith Helped Sell N. Korea on Cryptocurrency

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Ex-hacker Virgil Griffith allegedly went to Pyongyang and lectured on how cryptocurrency could be used to avoid sanction.

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A former computer hacker who styles himself as a corruption-buster has been charged with flouting U.S. law to give North Korea advice on evading American sanctions by using cryptocurrency.

Virgil Griffith, 36, was once dubbed an “internet man of mystery” by The

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