Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author: Azuma (@azuma_eth)
The overseas cryptocurrency community is wildly speculating on the identity of a "hidden Olympic champion."
The incident started this afternoon when user X Pol.wifhat (@0xPol, the account is currently unavailable) posted a picture of "a Lamborghini in the background, holding the Paris Olympic gold medal", and wrote: "The money I made by clicking a few buttons to buy WIF is 100 times more than the money I made from winning the Olympic gold medal."
The combination of "Olympic champion" and "meme warrior" instantly ignited the emotions of the cryptocurrency community. As of 14:30, Pol.wifhat's post had received 240,000 views, and hundreds of users were replying to speculate on who this unnamed "invisible Olympic champion" was.
Looking back at Pol.wifhat’s past dynamics, as early as 2021, the account began to frequently publish cryptocurrency-related content, and its focus was not much different from that of ordinary cryptocurrency users. When the Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs were officially approved, they posted articles to celebrate. Starting this year, the account began to frequently publish hype content related to memes such as WIF, and it seems that the focus has completely shifted to memes.
On August 3, things began to develop in an unexpected direction.
On the same day, Pol.wifhat first posted a photo of the gold medal for the first time and wrote: "I was offline for a few days, and you bastards smashed BTC so hard."
Then on August 7, Pol.wifhat posted again: "I temporarily quit X during the Olympic Games and just escaped the market crash. When I came back online a week later, I found that the currency price had almost returned to I left the position where I didn't even realize the market had crashed. It seemed like going for an Olympic gold medal would help avoid panic selling before the bull market hit."
The rest of the story is this post published in Chinese by Pol.wifhat today.
After the latest update was released, a large number of X users began to comment under Pol.wifhat's updates. Some directly asked about his identity, while others speculated that he was Australian swimmer Cameron Mcevoy (winner of the 50m freestyle championship at this Olympics on August 3). However, these inquiries and speculations were not answered or confirmed.
At the same time, some people speculated that this was just a marketing campaign carefully planned by the WIF community. After all, which Olympic champion has so much free time to trade cryptocurrencies every day?
These questions were not answered in the end. Just before this article was about to be edited, Pol.wifhat's X account could not be opened for unknown reasons, and when searching, it showed "This account does not exist."
