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Policy Regula
2026-07-29 02:19:50

Caixin says P2P and crypto funds tied to Zou Shiming couple may still be recoverable

ChainCatcher cited a Caixin article titled "The Collapsing Balance Sheet of a Boxing Champion," which said that for six individual friends who are creditors of Chinese boxing star Zou Shiming and his wife, money put into P2P products and virtual currencies is the only category of loss that may still be subject to recovery. The report contrasted those funds with other losses it described as irreversible sunk costs, including property that has already been sold, luxury goods that were liquidated at a discount, gym renovation spending that has been written off, and cross-industry projects that have already shut down. Caixin said the situation is different for P2P and crypto holdings because, if a platform has not been fully liquidated or if wallet addresses can still be traced, there is at least a theoretical path for subrogation-based recovery. As an example, the report said Beijing prosecutors previously used penetrating review methods together with blockchain big-data analysis tools to trace the flow of virtual currencies and successfully recover more than 89 million yuan in illicit funds.

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Caixin says P2P and crypto funds tied to Zou Shiming couple may still be recoverable
AI crawlers
2026-07-24 09:47:00

The Numbers Returned in Slimmed-Down Form After AI Bots Swamped 90% of Its Traffic

The Numbers, a long-running movie data site founded in 1997, went offline on March 5, 2026 and came back on March 13 in a reduced form after a severe strain from AI crawler traffic. According to PANews, citing reporting by Stephen Follows and comments attributed to founder Bruce Nash, AI crawlers and agents had grown to 90% of the site’s total traffic, pushing servers into repeated overload and failure. The restored version dropped historical charts, individual film detail pages and the site’s Report Builder feature. The case highlights a broader shift in web economics. PANews said Cloudflare data shows traditional search traffic once worked on a more balanced exchange, with Google crawling about five pages for each human visitor it sent back. By contrast, OpenAI reportedly crawls more than 1,000 pages per visitor, while Anthropic’s ratio exceeds 1:38,000. The article argues that for data-heavy websites with large numbers of public, structured pages, machine traffic can turn from an asset into a cost center because bots consume bandwidth and compute without producing equivalent ad, subscription or referral value. PANews also pointed to examples from Read the Docs, Wikimedia, SourceHut, iFixit and others to show that bot traffic now carries real infrastructure and labor costs. In that framing, The Numbers is not just an isolated outage story, but a sign of how legacy content and data sites may be forced to rethink architecture, traffic controls and business models as machine requests overtake human browsing.

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The Numbers Returned in Slimmed-Down Form After AI Bots Swamped 90% of Its Traffic