Are Olympic champions also into memes? Is it a real-life event or a marketing stunt?

Author: Azuma, Odaily Planet Daily

The overseas cryptocurrency community is wildly speculating about the identity of an "invisible Olympic champion."

The incident began when X user Pol.wifhat (@0x Pol, currently the account is inaccessible) posted a picture of themselves "holding a gold medal from the Paris Olympics against a Lamborghini backdrop," along with the caption: "The money I made from buying WIF by clicking a few buttons is 100 times more than what I earned from winning an Olympic gold medal."

The combination of "Olympic champion" and "meme warrior," two seemingly unrelated tags, instantly ignited emotions within the cryptocurrency community. As of around 14:30, Pol.wifhat's post had garnered 240,000 views, with hundreds of users replying to speculate on the identity of this unnamed "invisible Olympic champion."

Looking back at Pol.wifhat's past activities, this account began frequently posting cryptocurrency-related content as early as 2021, focusing on topics similar to those of ordinary cryptocurrency users—celebrating when Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs were officially approved. This year, the account has shifted its focus to frequently posting about WIF and other meme-related hype, indicating a complete pivot to memes.

On August 3, the situation began to take an unexpected turn.

On that day, Pol.wifhat first shared a photo of the gold medal and posted: "I was offline for just a few days, and you bastards smashed BTC this hard."

Then on August 7, Pol.wifhat posted again, stating: "I temporarily left X during the Olympic competitions and just happened to avoid this market crash. A week later, when I logged back in, I found that the coin prices had almost returned to where they were when I left. I didn't even realize the market had crashed. It seems that going to get an Olympic gold medal helps avoid panic selling before a bull market arrives."

The next chapter of the story is the post that Pol.wifhat published today in Chinese.

After the latest update was released, a large number of X users began commenting below Pol.wifhat's post, with some directly asking for their identity and others speculating that they might be Australian swimmer Cameron Mcevoy (the 50m freestyle champion of this Olympics, who won on August 3). However, these inquiries and speculations have not received any answers or confirmations.

Meanwhile, some have speculated that this is merely a marketing stunt carefully orchestrated by the WIF community, after all, which Olympic champion has so much free time to trade coins every day?

These questions ultimately went unanswered, and just before this article was about to be completed, Pol.wifhat's X account became inaccessible for unknown reasons, showing "This account does not exist" when searched.