Ke Wenzhe Is 1500 Bitcoin?
Recently, the investigation into Taiwan People's Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe's suspected involvement in the Beijing City case has continued to heat up. A green media reporter revealed that he has been operating a detection line for seven years, saying that he has a 200% degree of trust, and determined that Ke Wenzhe's portable USB may contain a file called "2022/11" /1 Xiao Shen 1500 "Chen Qingjing" document, and implies that 1500 is related to cash flow.
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Although the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office quickly issued a statement denying any claims about the cash flow of 1500, public opinion has begun to point out recently that Ko Wenzhe's portable USB storage device is likely to be a "cold wallet" for cryptocurrency, and Formosa Electronics Wu Zijia, chairman of the newspaper, also questioned on the show that Ke Wenzhe "knows Bitcoin very well" and may have hidden his money in a safe place like Bitcoin.
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In the political commentary program "Breaking News Line", famous speaker Chen Minfeng even went so far as to claim that the 1,500 actually refers to "1,500 Bitcoins," triggering crazy discussions among netizens. However, this statement has not been officially confirmed. The prosecutor has so far Still unable to produce strong evidence of financial flows to file a lawsuit against Ke Wenzhe.
At that time (2022/11/1), the value of each Bitcoin ($BTC) was approximately US$20,500. If converted according to the current price, 1,500 Bitcoins would already be worth NT$2.835 billion. The exaggerated number made many netizens laugh: "If you had 1,500 Bitcoins and you would have retired a long time ago, why would you choose?"
Misconceptions about virtual currency?
What’s even more incredible is that when the so-called “famous speaker” Chen Minfeng was discussing the topic of Bitcoin on the show, he suddenly said: “Cryptocurrency is different from virtual currency. The presentation software we use now, PowerPoint, is also a virtual currency! ” This left many viewers and netizens confused.
PowerPoint, as a common office software developed by Microsoft, has a history of more than 20 years since its birth, but it has nothing to do with any form of currency.
Netizens ridiculed that Chen Minfeng was "pretending to understand". If PowerPoint was a kind of virtual currency, judging from its 20-year history, wouldn't it be the "originator of the world's virtual currency" earlier than Bitcoin? Some PTT netizens also laughed and said: "I give presentations every day, am I already a virtual currency rich man?" "My PPT archives from college are so valuable?" "Word and Excel are virtual currencies? Everyone has become rich."
Misinformation is everywhere
Many netizens complained that famous speakers talked nonsense on the show without doing their homework. All kinds of wrong information will only blur the public's understanding of the difference between cryptocurrency and virtual currency, and may even mislead some people into thinking that briefing documents can also be used as funds. Tools for operation.
The misunderstanding of "cryptocurrency" and "virtual currency" by celebrities may also reflect the current gap in society's understanding of these emerging technologies. As blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are gradually integrated into the financial system, these concepts are not only It is a scientific term and may also become an important issue in the political, economic and even legal fields.
Ke Wenzhe’s case is not over yet, and the investigation unit is still trying its best to trace the relevant financial flows. However, topics related to virtual currencies have become a current trend, and searches for “cold wallets” have even appeared on Google’s search rankings. However, looking at the current situation There is still so much misinformation in the community and the media that people cannot bear to look at.