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For anyone who, like me, have/had never heard of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff

Apparently they also claimed to have influenced, or even invented, BitCoin:

https://marketrealist.com/p/what-happened-to-bogdanoff-crypt...

It’s a bit out of place, I know, but this crypto connection needs an explanation:

Their involvement into Bitcoin is nothing more than a silly meme. According to this — quite popular — conspiracy meme, the late Bogdanoff twins lured noobs into crypto investments and then wrecked them by triggering a large selloff.

Whatever. My prayers are with their families. RIP.

It's more than just the silly meme. Quoting from the lunk article:

> In a July 2021 interview with French television program L’Heure des Pros, the twins claimed that they discussed blockchain and crypto asset ideas with a Japanese scientist named Soïtchiro Shimoda, who they think was associated with Bitcoin’s inventors, reports Bitcoin.com.

> “Igor and I, as mathematicians, were able to participate in the elaboration of some of the [Bitcoin] source code, especially the ‘predictive code,’” Grichka told L’Heure des Pros.

And yes, regardless, thoughts and sympathies with the families.

pseudo science crooks who refused vaccination. grew up watching them on TV, godspeed !
He died? Dump it.
"I didn't even know they were sick." -Norm MacDonald
Good grief. Seeing the photo! And I thought the memes were exaggerated XD