Original | Odaily

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?"

The recently unusually active CZ said, "Yes, not a Shiba Inu, but a Belgian Malinois."

As soon as the news came out, about a hundred people in the comments replied: What's the dog's name? Tell us its name and photo! Oh, I love dogs, I used to volunteer at an animal shelter in the US, I just casually asked, what's the dog's name? We really just want to see how cute your dog is!

Of course, these people all had the purpose of creating a Memecoin. And CZ was well aware of this, so he later posted a post:

"An honest newbie question. How does this work? If I share the name and photo of my dog, will everyone create a memecoin? How do I know which one is the "official" one? Or is it not important at all? (I see a lot of people asking for the name and photo.)"

Afterwards, several KOL accounts in the comments explained the mechanism of Memecoin, including the consensus mechanism that among several Memes of the same name, one will eventually become the "official" Meme.

Then after a series of Twitter interactions, CZ later tweeted:

"Now I have the answer. (Memecoin is) a very interesting way of operating. I will, as usual, take about a day to really consider this big decision. To respect privacy, or to expose the dog's information for this cause? Oh, I might even interact with a few memecoins on the BNB Chain."

Subsequently, someone tweeted in the comments, "Just post a random dog photo with a random name, the effect should be the same." CZ replied: "No, that would be lying. If I do it, I'll do it right. Just sharing a photo and name of a dog."

The full process of the story ends here. However, the attentive netizens have not let this matter go: they have dug up clues about CZ's dog from all kinds of old information. On this point, there are many different opinions, with some saying it's called Perry, some saying it's called Bean, some saying it's called Maverick, and even Cleo and other various names. Subsequently, of course, various Meme coins appeared frequently.

Some even dug up a post from the Binance official account in 2020, which compiled the pet names of several Binance employees at the time, and speculated that one of them might be CZ's:

There are also people who posted a photo of a dog wearing a Binance outfit, pretending (or not pretending) that it's CZ's dog:

There are also foreign KOLs who, through very old Chinese articles and translation software, tried to prove that CZ has another dog, a Springer Spaniel named Sadie:

There are even people offering a bounty of $100,000-$200,000 to CZ's entourage to find out the dog's name, which just shows how crazy this world is:

Some even say, who knows CZ's former cellmate, they must have talked a lot in the four months, so you can ask that person if they know the dog's name.

Currently, if CZ really releases a Meme, it is most likely to be issued on the BNB Chain, and it is unknown whether it will be one of the above-mentioned names that have been speculated about, and the Meme enthusiasts have already rolled up their sleeves and prepared to be on the BNB chain. It is also possible that in the current environment, CZ chooses not to issue this Meme. In any case, the answer will be revealed tomorrow.