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Your friend would have to be non-resident for 3 full tax years to cease being ordinarily resident and therefore no longer subject to Irish CGT on his crypto gains. So from now, it would be 1 January 2022 before he would be able to sell and escape Irish CGT - if there are any gains left by then - which, as you say, is a big risk. If he had a very substantial gain, he could sell half now and then make the move and hope/pray that the crypto gains don't disappear in the next 3 years and 8 months.
That's one way of doing it to hedge your bets but I personally would rather pay the CGT now than risk spending 3 years overseas to potentially end up with the same amount or less. It's a large chunk of your time to give up for something that's not certain. That's assuming that the only reason he would be moving is to save tax.