Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has finally stepped forward with an intention to aid Virgil Griffith’s release and initiated a petition on 1st December 2019, encouraging all the readers to do the “right thing” and sign the petition to advocate his release from FBI’s clutches as soon as possible. On 29th November 2019, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI, declared the arrest of the U.S. citizen and an enthusiastic researcher from the Ethereum Foundation, Virgil Griffith for supposedly traveling to North Korea without permission and delivering a somewhat controversial presentation on how to leverage blockchain
