OKX CEO Xu Wants Receipts on CZ's "Sold-My-House-For-BTC" Origin Story

OKX CEO Star Xu is calling out Binance founder Changpeng Zhao over that classic crypto origin story about selling an apartment to buy Bitcoin. You know the one—at $400 a pop, no job, diamond hands before it was a meme. Apparently in crypto, the lore gets lazier than your average JPEG roadmap.

Xu's taking issue with the details. Specifically, he wants to know where the initial down payment came from and who actually owned the property. Because if CZ's in-laws were involved, that's a different kind of family finance right there. Nothing says "authentic degen origin" like Mom and Dad helping with the leverage.

The timing isn't random. CZ just dropped a book, and apparently Xu decided enough was enough. He's been quiet about this stuff before, but apparently publishing memoirs changes the calculus. Nothing lights a fire under a crypto beef like someone else getting a book deal first.

Xu also raised eyebrows about CZ's marital status. References were made to a letter from CZ's wife, but CZ has apparently told a different story in interviews and his new literary venture. Xu even threw out a challenge: show a signed divorce agreement or the divorce claims are just public misrepresentation. He pointed to Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as examples of folks who handled asset division through proper legal channels. Apparently in the billion-dollar club, you're either married forever or the paperwork speaks louder than Twitter.

And because crypto beef always goes deep, Xu also dug up the 2015 OKCoin controversy involving early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver. Contract falsification allegations from CZ's time there resurfaced. CZ addressed it in his book, calling it a leadership disagreement rather than misconduct. Xu's not buying it, pointing to archived materials and a notarized video that apparently tells a different story. CZ previously suggested his QQ account might have been compromised by another