The X account of Binance’s former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, has apparently turn out to be lively once more and has adopted a Solana information account, regardless of Zhao being in jail.
Federal inmates are prohibited from utilizing cellphones. Certainly, for essentially the most half, he appears to have caught by this and has not posted something since Could 22.
His X account following @solananew, nonetheless, brings this into query and raises questions on the way it might’ve occurred. To start with, Zhao might have been in a position to purchase a cell phone in jail and log into his account.
Prisoners smuggling telephones into jail is a generally reported challenge. In response to Forbes, it’s simpler to smuggle a cellphone right into a minimal or low-security jail, such because the FCI Lompoc II jail the place Zhao is presently being held.
Alternatively, Zhao might have given another person entry to his X account — though he’s not notified his followers that that is the case. The Federal Bureau of Prisons proposed criminalizing this act and is contemplating making it a high-risk violation alongside preventing and damaging property.
It proposed to ban ‘accessing, using, or maintaining social media, or directing others to establish or maintain social media accounts on the inmate’s behalf.’
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Somebody might have even hacked into his account, an act that occurs too usually on X. There might even be an digital system, akin to a pc or pill, already on-site that he might’ve logged onto.
Zhao’s final tweet congratulated Binance’s present CEO Richard Teng on a pizza he made for Bitcoin Pizza Day. He’s scheduled to be launched on September 29.
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