Over the past week, a mysterious individual calling himself 'Hu Lezhi' has burned and donated $7 million worth of ether (ETH), leaving eerie on-chain messages accusing two hedge fund executives of using 'brain-computer weapons' to control people. According to reporting by Pluid, on-chain data reveals that someone burned 603 ETH (worth roughly $1.63 million) and donated 1,950 ETH (approximately $5.28 million), totaling nearly $7 million.
Disturbing On-Chain Messages
The Ethereum blockchain allows users to encode messages with transactions. Lezhi used this feature to warn the world that Feng Xin, co-founder of Chinese hedge fund Wizard Quant, and Xu Yuzhi, the fund's chief investment officer, deployed brain-computer weapons against their employees, including Lezhi. He wrote: 'The heads of Kuande Investment, Feng Xin and Xu Yuzhi, used brain-computer weapons to persecute all company employees and former employees, and even they themselves were controlled.'
Lezhi elaborated that the two executives allegedly used brain-computer chips 'to control all citizens' until they become 'complete slaves to the digital machine.' The self-described 'ordinary computer programmer and entrepreneur' claims he has been controlled by 'the mind control organization' since birth, only discovering the manipulation in October 2022. Perhaps most distressing, Lezhi contemplated suicide in his messages: 'I have been very painful in the past two years. Now I have completely lost my dignity as a human being. I have decided to leave this world and hope that this ugly world will be destroyed soon.'
Credibility at a High Cost
While the messages are peculiar and may border on nonsensical, the fact that Lezhi spent $7 million to publish them for the world to see lends some credence to his story. Bitcoin.com attempted to contact Wizard Quant for comment, but the company's listed email address was not reachable.