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A popular anonymous twitter operator known as Blue Kirby has made away with an estimated $1million. Kirby was known to be one of the first promoters of YFI (yearn finance), a project that went from 0 to $40,000 even though it was an experiment and wasn’t expected to do more. He was always bullish on the DeFi Token and he somehow became influential in the Crypto-space after it skyrocketed. Even Andre Cronje noticed their efforts and donated $400,000 of YFI to Kirby.
Everything was going good until Kirby decided to promote a project which was being tested and not yet audited or proven. They asked people to invest in it and investors who then looked up to them as those who spotted early trends invested, the project was hacked and $15million was stolen by the hacker although half of the funds was later returned. This made blue Kirby suffer some set back in his reputation with the (Ethereum community)
Kirby was also actively promoting and selling NFT’s which they had launched. Rumors of funds going directly to Kirby started spreading to the point that it got Rarible, an NFT market place to suspend the NFT from it’s marketplace thereby ruining Kirby’s reputation more.
On October 4th, Kirby left the Ethereum community and also deactivated the twitter account. It is believed the $1millon Kirby left with was gotten from selling YFI tokens and also in addition to the funds he made from selling NFT’s and off-Blue sales.
When speaking on whether or not Kirby would return to the Crypto-Community, Anthony Sassano who documented the the incident said “I highly doubt it. There are some things you can come back from but it doesn’t seem like this will be one of them,” said Sassano, adding that “even if what Blue Kirby did was an honest mistake and even if they originally had good intentions, they have probably hurt too many people and broken too much trust to be welcomed back with open arms.”
