- Be Machi Big Brother: - teenage years spent obsessed with hip-hop and American culture - forms L.A. Boyz in 1991 with his brother and cousin - becomes one of the first Mandarin rap groups ever - sells hundreds of thousands of albums, tours Asia, appears in LA Times late 90s: - launches MACHI Entertainment under Warner Music - produces for Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai 2000s: turns to tech - founds TheOne Technology Group and merges it in a $60M deal - by 2015 launches 17Live, Asia’s top live-stream app - IPO plans in New York fail after investor disputes - sells his shares and looks for the next 2017: discovers crypto - launches Mithril (MITH), a “social mining” project that pays users in tokens - raises $13M but price collapses 80% within months - joins Formosa Financial as advisor, raises 44,000 ETH (~$37M) - 22,000 ETH later disappear from the treasury, never recovered 2020: enters DeFi - forks Compound and creates Cream Finance - protocol suffers multiple exploits, $192M+ drained - launches a wave of forks: Mith Cash, Wifey Finance, Typhoon Cash - most die within weeks 2021-2023: goes all-in on NFTs - becomes one of the biggest BAYC whales - holds more than 200 apes, worth over $9M - later dumps 1,000+ NFTs in two days, crashing floor prices - community calls it “the Machi dump” 2022: ZachXBT publishes investigation - accuses him of scamming 22,000 ETH and running over ten failed projects - Machi sues for defamation in Texas - the case ends quietly after edits to the article 2024: launches memecoin Boba Oppa on Solana - raises over $40M from presale hype - price falls 74% in a month - blamed for another “soft rug” 2025: trades aggressively on Hyperliquid - opens 15–25x longs on ETH, PUMP, and HYPE - loses over $53M in a few months the man who built, lost, sued, and still refuses to log off