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Virgil Griffith

1983 - Today

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Virgil Griffith (born 1983) is an American programmer. He worked extensively on the Ethereum cryptocurrency platform, designed the Tor2web proxy along with Aaron Swartz, and created the Wikipedia indexing tool WikiScanner. He has published papers on artificial life and integrated information theory. Griffith was arrested in 2019 and in 2021 pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. laws relating to money laundering using cryptocurrency and sanctions related to North Korea. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Virgil Griffith is the 265th most popular computer scientist (down from 242nd in 2024), the 21,144th most popular biography from United States (down from 18,910th in 2019) and the 136th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Virgil Griffith ranks 265 out of 245. Before him are Ian Goodfellow, Arfa Karim, Dina Katabi, Paul Buchheit, Blake Ross, and Erik Demaine. After him are Joy Buolamwini, Ingo Molnár, and Coraline Ada Ehmke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Virgil Griffith ranks 1,727. Before him are Zesh Rehman, Cappie Pondexter, Hashim Amla, Tanga Loa, James Bourne, and Megan Kalmoe. After him are Naoki Yuasa, Kentaro Takada, Harshvardhan Rane, Andrew Boyens, Kris Commons, and Rebecca Scown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virgil Griffith ranks 21,152 out of 20,380. Before him are Drag-On (1980), Tyler Oakley (1989), Megan Hilty (1981), Brian T. Delaney (1976), Paulina Chávez (2002), and Bryan Volpenhein (1976). After him are Kimberly J. Brown (1984), Nicole Malliotakis (1980), Morgan Hamm (1982), Ben Bishop (1986), Sean Couturier (1992), and Scoot Henderson (2004).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Virgil Griffith ranks 136. Before him are John Resig (1984), Jamie Zawinski (1968), Justin Frankel (1978), Ian Goodfellow (1987), Paul Buchheit (1977), and Blake Ross (1985).

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