Vitalik Buterin Asks Court for Leniency in Upcoming Sentencing of Virgil Griffith

In a letter to District Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York, Buterin detailed his seven-year friendship with Griffith, who he met in 2013 and began collaborating with on research in 2016. In 2018, Griffith formally joined Ethereum as a developer after Buterin said he “convinced him to agree.”