For me personally the second. But I am sure that regardless of what we think regarding what he did, we can all agree that it's a shame that someone like that won't be around to work on cool tech due to his sentencing, kinda like with Hans Reiser.
He always had the option to work on cool tech. What he instead chose to do was go to North Korea and educate them on how to use Ethereum.
I think you missed my point. I meant that he will now not have that option.
Sure, but is there a reason to believe he would have done anything different had he been allowed to go on?
I am not sure what you mean by this. As in, work on cool non-cryptocurrency related stuff?