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1/ His name is Virgil Griffith

It was great fun to see everyone this week in NYC, but I’ll admit, I was walking around with a hole in my heart and a looming sense of dread.

Virgil’s trial starts this Monday.

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2/ As many of you know, Virgil is facing up to 20 years in prison for attending and presenting at the Pyongyang Blockchain Conference in North Korea.

The US Government wants to make an example out of him for (allegedly) violating international sanctions.

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3/ Virgil is the next unfortunate anti-hero on the cypherpunk chopping block.

Before him came Aaron Swartz, who Virgil worked with to develop tor2web, a proxy for allowing anonymous publishing on the internet.

Aaron took his own life in 2013.

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