9 months later, there’s still no real explanation.
Hu Lezhi remains one of the strangest events ever seen on Ethereum.
February 2025:
A Chinese programmer deliberately burned 603.38 ETH
Roughly $1.67M at the time
All sent to the zero address
Each burn included long, disturbing messages about mind-control technology and alleged abuse.
He repeatedly named a Chinese hedge fund, Kuande Investment (WizardQuant), and accused two executives of using brain-machine weapons on employees.
Additional burns followed that same week:
• 70.36 ETH with a message about animals being turned into digital puppets
• 33.03 ETH describing a person losing free will and becoming a “digital slave”
In total, 603.38 ETH was permanently destroyed.
From the same wallet, another 711.52 ETH was sent to WikiLeaks, including one transfer of over 590 ETH. Alongside it was a manifesto claiming he had been monitored since birth by a global brain-control organization.
Nine months later, all that remains is:
• Over 600 ETH burned forever
• Over 700 ETH donated
• A hedge fund that never responded
• A programmer who vanished after posting his final statements
The blockchain kept the receipts.
But the story itself is still missing its ending.
