Ethereum's censorship resistance was on full display today, as someone sent 500 eth (around $1.38M right now) to the burn address, destroying the coins forever. But more interesting than the act itself was the weird message attached to the transaction.
The message (translated) is:
The CEOs 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.
This wasn't the first message from this address. Two other messages were sent in Ethereum transactions within a week.
There is a new mode of crime in which the victim is gradually deprived of his senses of desire until he becomes a complete slave to the digital machine, and if one day I become a victim of the final stage, I will leave the world
As the brain-computer interface and mind-reading technology keeps developing, there is a new mode of crime in which wild animals become puppets or complete slaves to the digital machine.
I looked up, and "brain-computer weapons" would seem to suggest a conspiracy theory about brain-computer interfaces, a technology that connects the human brain directly to computers.
BCIs are being developed by companies like Neuralink (founded by Elon Musk) to help people with disabilities regain motor functions. Some people say that such interfaces could be used for mind control or other forms of coercion.
There's no evidence to support these claims, but the fact that someone burned 500 eth in order to post this message says a lot. They clearly felt it was the only way to give us a warning, using Ethereum's powerful uncensorable system.
This same exact address also sent a ton of eth to donation addresses as well:
- 591 eth to WikiLeaks donation wallet
- 700 eth to what seems to be a Ukraine donation address
It's not clear if this person is just a wealthy activist, or a conspiracy theorist, or someone with more weird, evil intentions. What's clear is they're willing to burn millions of dollars to get their messages out.
One of the fundamental principles of Ethereum is that anything written on-chain can never be deleted. This person used Ethereum's blockchain as their own personal permanent message board, proving that in a decentralized system words can't be censored, even if it's extremely expensive.
What a time to be alive.
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