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CZ Powell and more rally to fund legal fees for on-chain sleuth ZachXBT surpassing $1M

ZachXBT estimates that the legal fees could “easily exceed” $1 million and alleged that MachiBigBrother is “using his money to try” and silence him.

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has received over $1 million in donations in slightly more than a day from the crypto community, to aid in his legal defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by someone he accused of fraud.

ZachXBT is known to his 412,900 followers on Twitter for his investigative work in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector.

On June 16, Jeffrey Huang, known as MachiBigBrother on Twitter, stated in a tweet that he has filed a defamation lawsuit against ZachXBT accusing him of damaging his reputation through false allegations.

Huang was referring to an an article published by ZachXBT in June 2022 titled "22,000 ETH Embezzled and Over Ten Projects Failed: The Story of Machi Big Brother (Jeff Huang)", where he accused Huang of launching over “over 10 failed pump and dump tokens and NFT projects.”

Responding to the lawsuit in a series of tweets on June 17, ZachXBT called the lawsuit “baseless” and an “attempt to chill free speech.” He noted that the legal fees could “easily exceed” $1 million and set up a donation wallet address for assistance.

He added that the lawsuit “is sickening,” but he “knew one day” it would happen, as that is “the price” of telling the truth.

“The price of telling the truth is sometimes people dislike what you say” he tweeted.

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Several crypto executives donated to ZachXBT and praised him for all the work he does in the crypto and web3 industry.

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, CEO of crypto exchange Binance praised ZachXBT in a tweet telling him to “keep the industry transparent,” along with noting that Binance will “contribute $50K" to his legal fees fundraiser.

Jesse Powell, co-founder of crypto exchange Kraken, althanked ZachXBT for “all that” he does, stating he would be donating 10 Ethereum (ETH) (approx. $17,294.30).

Meanwhile, Polygon’s founder Sandeep Nailwal tweeted that ZachXBT is the “reason web3 is alive and flourishing,” stating that he will be donating 5 Ether (approx. $8,645.35).

Just one day after ZachXBT tweeted the link to the donation wallet address, he has already surpassed $1 million in donations.

ZachXBT's donation wallet balance. Source: Zapper.xyz

Cointelegraph previously reported in October 2022 that the French authorities had utilized ZachXBT’s research to charge five people on suspicion of stealing $2.5 million worth of nonfungible tokens (NFT) via phishing scams.

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