San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death
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schrieb am 12. Mai 2025, 20:14 zuletzt editiert vonThis post did not contain any content.
Crypto founder faked own death. We found him alive at his dad's house
The Zerebro cofounder, Jeffy Yu, confronted a journalist outside his parents' home days after staging his suicide online.
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Crypto founder faked own death. We found him alive at his dad's house
The Zerebro cofounder, Jeffy Yu, confronted a journalist outside his parents' home days after staging his suicide online.
(sfstandard.com)
schrieb am 12. Mai 2025, 20:23 zuletzt editiert vonDressed in a T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and wire-rimmed glasses, Yu declined to talk about the false report of his death or how he may have benefited financially from it.
“You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said before telling this reporter to leave.
That epitaph should be etched onto his gravestone.
Although the obituary touted his alleged successes, the more significant self-tribute was Sunday’s release of a memecoin that one of his social media accounts promoted in what claimed to be an automated message. “If you’re reading this, it’s because my 72 hour deadman’s switch triggered so i’m not here, at least physically,” the message said. The message described the new coin, dubbed $LLJEFFY, as “my final art piece” and “an eternal grave in cyberspace.”
Who doesn't have a deadman's switch to capitalize on one's own death?
On-chain analysis shared on social media by Bubblemaps, a crypto analytics platform, showed accounts linked to Yu moving up to $1.4 million in cryptocurrency after his supposed death. Several accounts accused Yu of orchestrating an elaborate “pseudocide exit strategy” to cash out his holdings.
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
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Before his staged death, Yu published a manifesto introducing the concept of “legacoins” — described as an “evolution of digital assets commonly referred to as memecoins” that function as “a vault or storage, securing and preserving value indefinitely.”
What an incredible coincidence!
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Crypto founder faked own death. We found him alive at his dad's house
The Zerebro cofounder, Jeffy Yu, confronted a journalist outside his parents' home days after staging his suicide online.
(sfstandard.com)
schrieb am 12. Mai 2025, 20:37 zuletzt editiert vonFake money, fake death, real douche.
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Dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and wire-rimmed glasses, Yu declined to talk about the false report of his death or how he may have benefited financially from it.
“You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said before telling this reporter to leave.
That epitaph should be etched onto his gravestone.
Although the obituary touted his alleged successes, the more significant self-tribute was Sunday’s release of a memecoin that one of his social media accounts promoted in what claimed to be an automated message. “If you’re reading this, it’s because my 72 hour deadman’s switch triggered so i’m not here, at least physically,” the message said. The message described the new coin, dubbed $LLJEFFY, as “my final art piece” and “an eternal grave in cyberspace.”
Who doesn't have a deadman's switch to capitalize on one's own death?
On-chain analysis shared on social media by Bubblemaps, a crypto analytics platform, showed accounts linked to Yu moving up to $1.4 million in cryptocurrency after his supposed death. Several accounts accused Yu of orchestrating an elaborate “pseudocide exit strategy” to cash out his holdings.
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
...
Before his staged death, Yu published a manifesto introducing the concept of “legacoins” — described as an “evolution of digital assets commonly referred to as memecoins” that function as “a vault or storage, securing and preserving value indefinitely.”
What an incredible coincidence!
schrieb am 12. Mai 2025, 20:55 zuletzt editiert vonSo gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
In a sense, he kinda does have a deep understanding. He knows how the grift works and knows how to trick people into giving him money for a little acting.
Sometimes, I wonder what my life would have been like had even just dabbled in Bitcoin at the beginning, but then I remember that I would have to have been rubbing elbows with these weirdos.
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Crypto founder faked own death. We found him alive at his dad's house
The Zerebro cofounder, Jeffy Yu, confronted a journalist outside his parents' home days after staging his suicide online.
(sfstandard.com)
schrieb am 12. Mai 2025, 21:00 zuletzt editiert vonFuck I thought from the title it was an answer to the identy of the creator of bitcoin who is often credited as being the creator of the whole cryptocurrency concept, Satoshi Nakamoto. Not a story about a douche who created another useless crypto coin.
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Fuck I thought from the title it was an answer to the identy of the creator of bitcoin who is often credited as being the creator of the whole cryptocurrency concept, Satoshi Nakamoto. Not a story about a douche who created another useless crypto coin.
schrieb am 12. Mai 2025, 21:58 zuletzt editiert vonI think satoshis dead ngl
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Fake money, fake death, real douche.
schrieb am 13. Mai 2025, 00:53 zuletzt editiert vonSounds like a tagline for a commercial. I just have no idea what it would be selling.
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Sounds like a tagline for a commercial. I just have no idea what it would be selling.
schrieb am 13. Mai 2025, 03:49 zuletzt editiert von sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comAn all inuclusive, total body mind soul detox cleanse, vacation get-away trip.
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Dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and wire-rimmed glasses, Yu declined to talk about the false report of his death or how he may have benefited financially from it.
“You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said before telling this reporter to leave.
That epitaph should be etched onto his gravestone.
Although the obituary touted his alleged successes, the more significant self-tribute was Sunday’s release of a memecoin that one of his social media accounts promoted in what claimed to be an automated message. “If you’re reading this, it’s because my 72 hour deadman’s switch triggered so i’m not here, at least physically,” the message said. The message described the new coin, dubbed $LLJEFFY, as “my final art piece” and “an eternal grave in cyberspace.”
Who doesn't have a deadman's switch to capitalize on one's own death?
On-chain analysis shared on social media by Bubblemaps, a crypto analytics platform, showed accounts linked to Yu moving up to $1.4 million in cryptocurrency after his supposed death. Several accounts accused Yu of orchestrating an elaborate “pseudocide exit strategy” to cash out his holdings.
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
...
Before his staged death, Yu published a manifesto introducing the concept of “legacoins” — described as an “evolution of digital assets commonly referred to as memecoins” that function as “a vault or storage, securing and preserving value indefinitely.”
What an incredible coincidence!
schrieb am 13. Mai 2025, 03:51 zuletzt editiert vonHow is a legacoin different from ... just being a fancy NFT?
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Fuck I thought from the title it was an answer to the identy of the creator of bitcoin who is often credited as being the creator of the whole cryptocurrency concept, Satoshi Nakamoto. Not a story about a douche who created another useless crypto coin.
schrieb am 13. Mai 2025, 03:52 zuletzt editiert von sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comMy head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto...
... is Hideo Kojima.
Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original... white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There's no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.
I thought it was a neat idea, at the time... and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about 'the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes' and such, very little devoted to actual technical development... realized this was probably a bad omen.
