CoinDesk: US Nuclear Engineer, Wife Charged With Sale of Naval Secrets for Crypto

  • Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:04
Justin Ehrenhofer, monero community member, discusses the specifics of an alleged espionage case: A nuclear engineer employed by the U.S. Department of the Navy and his wife were accused of attempting to sell restricted data in exchange for the privacy-centric crypto monero. ​The pair had received $100,000 in monero before they were arrested by the FBI and NCIS. Ehrenhofer points out the implication of this to the monero community and the debate over privacy coin.

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