Zerebro’s developer, Jeffy Yu, has been found alive in his parents’ house in San Francisco, days after pretending his suicide in a live broadcast that launched an alleged posthumous memecoin beyond $ 100 million.
Yu’s case is not the first time that Crypto has erased the line between real death, falsified and somewhat intermediate death.
From missing founders to sealed coffins, the industry has a long history of exits that leave more questions than the closure.
Here are five disturbing, real, staged or unresolved cases, which continue to chase the cryptographic world.
1. Jeffy Yu pretended his death, then his crypto
A Yu clip transmitting its “suicide” circulated on May 4. The video showed him smoking a cigarette before pressing the trigger, then the camera fell.
Hours later, a scheduled publication of social networks announced the posthumous launch of Lljeffy, a memecorer described as its “final art piece.” The currency increased to almost $ 105 million in market capitalization.
But Yu was not dead. Blockchain wallets tied to him continued to move. A copy of a letter, supposedly written by Yu, described the output design as an answer to harassment and blackmail.
The reporters of the San Francisco Ange standard found Yu in their parents’ house. He refused to comment on the suicide trick or if he benefited from him.
In the world of Memecoins, this show of the show is not new. At the end of 2024, the characteristic of the live current of Pump. The company closed it and then relaunched a tone version.
2. A decrease in a cryptographic complainant to paranoia and the possible death
In February 2025, a sustained Chinese programmer who called himself Hu Leeghi burned 500 Ethher (ETH) (for a value of around $ 1.3 million at that time) and donated another 1,950 ETH (more than $ 5 million) to several groups such as Wikileaaks and WikiLeaks and similar Wikilakss and how Wikilaks and as Wakss and The Thermum.
Everything came with Ochain messages alleging that a coverage fund called Wizardquant (also known as Kuande Investment) was using “brain weapons” to control its employees, including the chicken.
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Messages are read as science fiction horror. Hu said that it had been a mental control test since then from Hood and warned about a future where humans were nothing more than “puppets or complete slaves of the digital machine.”
In one of his last messages, Hu said that “they would leave the world” if they came to the final stage of becoming a “full slave of the digital machine.” Some translated the series of messages as a suicide note in Ochain.
To date, they are not re -ured. And unlike Yu, the Hu wallet has not moved.
3. The cryptographic and cryptic tweet before his death
On October 28, 2022, the Defi developer, Nikolai Mushegian, published a chilling tweet: “CIA, Mossad and Pedo Elite are executing some kind of black trapping blackmail ring … They will torture me to death.”
The next morning, he was found face down in the waves near his beach house in Puerto Rico.
Mushegian was a random crypto child. He was an early developer in Makerdao and a key architect of the Stablecoin ecosystem.
It was also more and more paranoid, or, depending on who asked, more and more aware. Critics ruled out the tweet as a mental health crisis, but others were not so fast to look the other way.
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The moment of his death caused a wave of theories: murder, objective objective or even Mkultra -style mental control.
Officer, accidental drowning was governed.
4. Cryptographic investors cannot believe the death of the founder of Quadrigacx
In December 2018, Gerald Cotten, the 30 -year founder of Crypto Exchange Canadian, according to reports, died in India for Crohn’s disease.
But there was a massive problem: he was the only person with access to $ 190 million in cryptography.
As the news of his death extended, the questions so asked. There was no public autopsy, his death certificate misuse his name (spelling of spelling such as Cottan), the cash was sealed and a growing army of investors wanted his body to exhume for DNA tests.
Quadriga officially declared in bankruptcy in 2019. Thousands of clients were blocked from their funds. In all, the researchers discovered that cold wallets were empty, which caused Auditor EY to begin recovery efforts.
Some suspended Cotten had directed a Ponzi scheme for years and used their death as the last escape plan. Rumors have not been confirmed, but the official story is still that a tragic death died, as confirmed by the Indian authorities.
5. The reports of Cryptoqueen’s death are very exaggerated
The self -denominated “Cryptoqueen” Ruja Ignatova, co -founder of the Onecoin’s scam of $ 4 billion, has not been since he approached a flight from Ryanair from Sofia to Athens in October 2017.
Cotten did not leave access. Ignatova left no trace.
Since then, rumors have revolved. Some say that she underwent plastic surgery and lives under a new identity or is protected by the Bulgarian mafia.
A Bulgarian investigation states that Ignatava was supposedly killed in November 2018 on a yacht in the Ionio Sea and that his body was dismembered and abandoned by the board under the orders of the chief of the crime Bulgaro Christophoros Amanatidis to cover his his tower.
More recently, German officials allegedly assumed that Ignatova is in a South African suburb that lives with private security.
Ignatova has been on the FBI list of the United States 10 more wanted since 2022.
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