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Author: jk
Around the early morning of February 13th, Beijing time, X platform user Vee (@theveeman) asked CZ in a tweet thread: "CZ, do you have a pet dog?"
CZ, who has been unusually vocal recently, said: “Yes, it’s not a Shiba Inu, but a Belgian Malinois.”
As soon as the news came out, about a hundred people replied in the comment area: What is the dog's name? Tell me his name and photo! Oh, I love dogs so much. I used to be a volunteer at an animal protection center in the United States. I just casually asked, what is the dog's name? We really just want to see how cute your dog is!
Of course, these people all wanted to create Memecoin. CZ knew this very well, so he posted a message later:
“An honest newbie question. How does this work? I share my dog’s name and photo and people create memecoins? How do I know which ones are “official” or does it not even matter? (I see a lot of people asking for names and photos.)”
Afterwards, several KOL accounts explained the mechanism of Memecoin in the comment section, including the consensus mechanism that among several memes with the same name, there will eventually be a larger one that becomes the "official" meme.
Then after a series of Twitter interactions, CZ later tweeted:
“Now I have my answer. (Memecoin is a) very interesting way to operate. I will take a day or so to think about this big decision, as usual. Respect privacy, or expose the dog’s information for the cause? Oh, and maybe even interact with a few memecoins on BNB Chain.”
Later, someone in the comment section tweeted: "Just post a random dog photo with a random name, the effect should be the same." CZ replied: "No, that would be a lie. If you are going to do it, do it well. Just share a photo of a dog and a name."
The whole story ends here. However, careful netizens did not let this go: they found clues about CZ's dog from various old information. There are many different opinions on this point. Some say it is called Perry, some say it is called Bean, some say it is called Maverick, and there are also various names such as Cleo. Then, of course, various meme coins appeared frequently.
Some people even found a post from Binance’s official account in 2020, which collected several pet names of Binance employees at the time. Everyone speculated that one of them might be CZ’s:
Someone also posted a photo of a dog wearing Binance’s clothes, pretending (or not pretending) to be CZ’s dog:
There are also foreign KOLs who have tried to prove through very old Chinese articles and translation software that CZ has another dog, a Springer Spaniel named Sadie:
Someone even offered a reward of $100,000 to $200,000 to ask people around CZ for the dog's name. I can only say that this world is really crazy:
Someone else said, if anyone knows CZ’s former cellmate, they must have talked a lot during the four months, and you can ask that person if he knows the dog’s name.
At present, if CZ really releases a meme, it will most likely be released on BNBChain, and it is not known whether it will be one of the names mentioned above. Meme lovers are ready to launch BNB on the chain. It is also possible that CZ will choose not to release this meme in the current environment. In any case, the answer will be revealed tomorrow.
