Someone just torched 603 ETH like it was pocket change to let us all know that they’ve been under a mind-control spell since they were a kid.

It’s a wild story that, in all honestly, sounds like a troubled person suffering from a schizophrenic episode.

The mysterious burner also dropped 591 ETH into WikiLeaks' wallet, bringing the total damage to over 1,000 ETH.

Meet The Messenger

Our troubled crypto mind control prophet goes by "Hu Lezhi" on-chain.

They've been lighting up the Ethereum blockchain with some serious sci-fi-esque warnings about the power of mind control and how militaries around the world are using it to control the masses… and wild animals, apparently.

They're setting wild amounts of digital assets on fire across three separate token burns so far: 500 ETH, 70 ETH, and 33 ETH.

This doesn’t appear to be a meme coin marketing stunt either, and it's far from your usual "gm" blockchain messages.

The messages include talks, or rather, full-on warnings, about "brain-machine weapons" and mind-reading tech.

The messages claim some Kuande Investment executives are using this tech to turn employees into "complete slaves to digital machines."

Reality Or Mental Illness?

But that sounds… improbable.

Not even Neuralink is anywhere close to the level of mind control technology mentioned here – and even if it was, we have no doubt that it would be used for much bigger purposes than to keep employees trudging away at their daily jobs.

The most advanced brain-computer interfaces right now can barely help you click a mouse, let alone force you to make small talk by the office water cooler. 

But when someone's willing to burn millions in ETH to get their message out, people tend to pay attention.

The Clinical Take 

Could this be mass hysteria in the age of blockchain?

Dr. Emily Chen, a neurotechnology ethicist, says these claims are way beyond current tech capabilities.

Meanwhile, blockchain detective Marcus Bloom notes this is becoming a trend – using expensive transactions as the ultimate attention-getter.

The challenge becomes discerning what is a big marketing stunt and what is a genuine cry for help – the recent meme coin mania makes discerning between the two more difficult than ever before. 

But what’s fascinating isn’t the need to discern – it’s that blockchain has become the new medium for unfiltered, uncensorable messages.

No matter how wild they might be, this person was able to inscribe their message on-chain without any censorship, sharing with the world in the way they thought was best.

And when you combine that with million-dollar burns, you kind of have everyone's attention.

The Big Burn

Burning 603 ETH might be the most expensive Twitter alternative we've seen yet – granted, BlueSky doesn’t have the same traction as Ethereum, but it’s a heck of a lot cheaper.

Whether you believe the warnings or not, it’s clear that blockchain is becoming the new home for messages too spicy for traditional platforms.

And while we all don’t have that amount of ETH to burn, sometimes the messenger is willing to take out their entire wallet to get their point across.