The "missing person" from the Bitcoin community is coming back? The Brazilian community is in uproar.

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A LinkedIn photo has stirred waves in the Brazilian encryption community - a Swiss developer named Bernard Fraga has made old fans collectively dream.

Who is this guy? Daniel Fraga, the first YouTuber in Brazil to openly talk about Bitcoin, suddenly disappeared from the scene in 2016 and has not been seen since. The reason is quite dramatic: he clashed with a female politician and after being sued, he vanished without a trace. But before that, he had already converted everything he could into BTC.

So the whole community is imagining a story: this guy is now a Bitcoin millionaire living in seclusion in Switzerland, enjoying life very comfortably.

This reversal: Someone saw the profile of “Bernard” on LinkedIn, and the more they looked, the more it resembled the missing Daniel. When the community asked, “Are you Daniel Fraga?” this guy deleted his account within 24 hours. Even more heartbreaking, someone dug up his check-in photo at KPMG's headquarters in Switzerland from 2022.

But here’s the BUT—screenshots are everywhere, and it's hard to distinguish between true and false. AI face-swapping technology is so advanced that a single photo basically says nothing. Now, this account can't be found on LinkedIn either.

If you ask me: This is probably another Rashomon. But the Brazilian Bitcoin community doesn't care, they just love this suspense. Anyway, Daniel's legacy (his contribution to promoting BTC) is already legendary. If he really became a winner in life by holding coins in Switzerland? That would be even more legendary.

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