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23 for a Book Talk about his new book, Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West. Growing up in Germany, he developed a passion for reading and writing which inspired him to pursue the “very natural choice” of journalism for his undergraduate degree at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.Īlum & author joins on Nov. He soon moved to Germany on account of his father doing Ph.D. Lou, 31, was born in Harbin, a northern Chinese city near the Russian border. “It was a very interesting insight into North Korea for sure, but there wasn’t any crypto insight.” Journalist in training What the group of merry conference-goers missed out on expected North Korean crypto insight, they gained in friendships and interesting stories - much of the time was spent touring Pyongyang and getting “very drunk with our Korean minders.” I don’t think he brought North Korea any benefits and he didn’t derive any personal benefit - he paid quite a lot of money to be at the conference.” “I don’t think Griffith had any intention of benefiting North Korea in any tangible way. This monument here is of a pen and then there's an atom on top, symbolizing science and writing and stuff. As most presentations were prepared just days before, the event’s content consisted of only “surface level, Wikipedia-type information.” Lou notes that the event was organized by “the cultural side,” of the DPRK administration and that their “crypto people” never made themselves known. Though it appeared that some of the attendees, like Griffith, came prepared to present, “most of us thought we were going to take information from the Koreans,” he says, adding that he declined to give a presentation. “It turns out we, the participants, were asked to be presenters.” He explains that the event was advertised as a crypto conference and he “thought we were going to hear from the North Korean crypto people because North Korea has been accused of doing lots of shady stuff with crypto,” referring to accusations of state-sponsored hacking, among others.īut, there were no North Korean crypto people. Lou, who considered the conference an innocuous opportunity to see North Korea, recalls how Griffith’s initial arrest was a shock to everyone who had attended. The room in which Virgil Griffith spoke to the North Koreans.
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This was a surprise to Lou, who notes that Griffith’s lawyers had requested the judge to allow for two suits “so that he can wear different outfits on different days,” suggesting that they, too, had expected the trial to last longer than a day. With Lou watching from the New York courtroom’s gallery on the first day of the trial in September this year, a “quite emotional” Griffith pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to violate sanctions laws in a deal which may see him spend over six years in prison. This is because eight months after the event, in November 2019, Virgil Griffith, who worked with the Ethereum Foundation and who was among the attendees Lou got to know, was arrested by the FBI for breaking sanctions and illegally providing “highly technical information” to the North Korean government. The Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, attended by about 100 people, is the big attraction in Lou’s book. “Want to go to a crypto conference in North Korea in April?” is not a common question, but was asked of me by Lou in early 2019.
However, he is bitten on the neck by an alien and dies in the arms of Woodrow, declaring that he always wanted to participate in a battle at his side, which he accomplished.Ethan Lou is a journalist turned Bitcoin miner turned two-time author whose latest book, Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West, is a modern western recount a gloomy millennial’s rebirth in the wild west of crypto - complete with scammers, party drugs and a North Korean crypto conference. He convinces the latter to join the group to fight the monsters.ĭuring the final fight, Dolarhyde is about to be killed but Nat barely saves him.
Later in the film, the group is captured by Apaches led by Black Knife and Nat translates his words. Nat accompanies him and guides the band with the footprints left by one of the aliens. When the aliens arrive and kidnap villagers (including Percy, Maria and the sheriff), Woodrow sets up an expedition to save them. He returns with him and the gang to the village and recognizes Jake Lonergan, a wanted criminal. When the latter is arrested by Taggart, Nat goes warn Woodrow of. Nat watches over Percy, Woodrow's son, in the Absolution village. Nat was taken in by Woodrow Dolarhyde when he was younger and felt an obligation to serve him in repayment, always wanting to be like him when he grew up. Nat Colorado is played by Adam Beach in Cowboys & Aliens.