A man identifying himself as an “ordinary programmer and entrepreneur” has burned and donated approximately $7 million worth of Ethereum as a form of protest and a personal statement against what he describes as a long-standing experience of being monitored and manipulated by a “brain-control organization.”
Now, Crypto Twitter users are trying to get what’s left of his money.
The user, who identified himself as Hu Lezhi, has sent around 2,553 ETH ($2,723.20) (worth approximately $7 million) through multiple transactions over the past week.
Of that amount, 603 ETH ($1.65 million) was permanently removed from circulation by sending it to an unspendable blockchain address, 0x00000—also known as the ETH burn address.
Hu has also inscribed a variety of unusual messages on the blockchain.
“Since October 2022, I have realized that I have been monitored and manipulated by a brain-control organization since birth,” Hu wrote on-chain. “When I became aware of the existence of this organization, they intensified their harm against me.”