Virgil Griffith (born 1983), also known as Romanpoet, is an American programmer, known for being the creator of WikiScanner, an indexing tool for Wikipedia.
He has published papers on artificial life and integrated information theory.
He also worked extensively on the Ethereum cryptocurrency platform.
Griffith was arrested in 2019 for allegedly giving an Ethereum related presentation in North Korea, and moving cryptocurrency between South and North Korea (a violation of the international Sanctions against North Korea).