Jeffy Yu, the Zerebro co-founder who faked his personal suicide earlier than exploiting the following controversy to launch a legacy-themed crypto token, has been discovered alive at his mother and father’ home in San Francisco.
Yu apparently killed himself on a Pump Enjoyable dwell stream, shortly after he printed a manifesto on the idea of “Legacoins” — a time period he created for a brand new kind of memecoin that may in some way enshrine a useless particular person’s crypto holdings.
Nonetheless, unsurprisingly to many, Yu’s grisly “demise” and the following on-line obituary — deleted just a few days later — that appeared to verify his loss of life had been all pretend.
Certainly, George Kelly, writing for The San Francisco Customary, discovered the 22-year-old alive and nicely, wearing flip-flops, within the Crocker-Amazon neighbourhood of San Francisco.
When requested about his false obituary and the way he might have profited, Yu declined to remark and as a substitute complained that he had been “doxed” and “harassed.”
He stated, “If you can find me, other people can find me. Now I have to move my parents out of here this week.” Yu added, “You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” earlier than asking Kelly to depart.
Shortly after his staged loss of life, Yu’s Mirror account posted a message selling his so-called “legacoin” $LLJEFFY. “If you’re reading this,” it stated, “it’s because my 72-hour deadman’s switch triggered, so I’m not here, at least physically.”
Nonetheless, many had already began to doubt that each one was because it appeared. Certainly, eagle-eyed sleuths had already deduced that the flash of the “gun” on Yu’s livestream was merely an orange gentle from elsewhere within the room.
Different customers on-line found that an tackle created by Yu started dumping Zerebro tokens and began sending funds to the identical tackle that created $LLJEFFY.
Crypto analyst Bubblemaps discovered that $1.4 million of ZEREBRO was bought.
