These five crypto figures vanished, died or fooled us all
Zerebro developer Jeffy Yu has been found alive at his parents’ home in San Francisco, days after faking his suicide on a livestream that launched a supposed posthumous memecoin past $100 million.
Yu’s case isn’t the first time crypto has blurred the line between real death, faked death and something in between.
From missing founders to sealed caskets, the industry has a long history of exits that left behind more questions than closure.
Here are five unsettling cases — real, staged or unresolved — that continue to haunt the crypto world.
1. Jeffy Yu faked his death, then his crypto pumped
A clip of Yu broadcasting his “suicide” circulated on May 4. The video showed him smoking a cigarette before pulling the trigger, then the…
