Speculation on social media has ranged from Barron Trump, the youngest son of the US president, to Chinese cryptocurrency investor Garrett Jin, who served as CEO of the now-defunct crypto exchange Bitforex and was an operations director at Huobi, now known as HTX, according to Crunchbase.
Public scrutiny of Jin grew after Binance founder Zhao Changpeng shared on Sunday a blockchain analyst’s social media post that accused Jin of being the trader in question. The analyst, known by the handle “eyeonchains”, said the blockchain wallet address responsible for the bitcoin and ether short trades was linked to Jin.
In a social media response on Monday, Jin denied any connection to the Trump family or engagement in insider trading. He criticised Zhao for exposing his “personal and private information”.
