There’s a pretty interesting piece of gossip going around lately. Moore Threads, which has been dubbed the “Nvidia of China,” just went public and its market cap shot up to over 300 billion. It should’ve been a huge event for the tech world, but someone dug up some dirt on Li Feng, the dean of Moore Academy.

Back in the 2017 crypto boom, Li Feng actually worked on projects with big names like Li Xiaolai and Xue Manzi. What’s even more explosive is that in 2018, Star, the founder of a major exchange, publicly called out Li Feng in his WeChat Moments, saying Li Feng owed him 1,500 yuan and wouldn’t pay it back. That incident caused quite a stir back then, and now it’s resurfaced.

The crypto world is such a small circle—after all these years, the same people and stories keep popping up. It’s wild how people making chips and trading coins can end up being the same crowd. This kind of crossover is really something else.