CZ Shares Crypto Selfie with Legendary “Hide The Pain Harold” Meme Guy

The co-founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), has published a selfie from a recently attended crypto event.

CZ made an appearance at the Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, sharing a selfie with a guy who looks like the legendary man from a popular meme. X commentators have shared other photos from the event to prove that this is indeed András Arató.

CZ and "Harold" in one selfie

The selfie shared by CZ features him and András Arató – the Hungarian man holding a cup of tea/coffee whose photo was used in the legendary “Hide the Pain Harold” meme. This meme became widely famous due to Arato’s face expression – he is forcing a smile which makes Internet users think that he is smiling despite some inner struggle, pain or discomfort.

András Arató has become a guest in various public events, especially those that are dedicated to that meme. However, it seems that this man could be into crypto and he attended the Binance Blockchain Week this time, taking a selfie with CZ.

The Binance co-founder commented on that photo, saying: “Who said crypto is stressful?”

CZ releases new project in beta

Less than 24 hours ago, CZ announced that he had finally given a beta start to his new brainchild – the Giggle Academy. That’s a non-profit project that offers free of charge lessons in Maths, English, and blockchain to underprivileged children.

He tweeted that the Giggle Academy has been launched in close beta. 2,400 invitations have been sent out and currently there are already a few hundred testers. “Still early,” CZ commented, using the phrase popular within the crypto community, especially regarding Bitcoin.

However, a small issue has emerged and CZ addressed it on his X account – many invitations were sent to users via e-mail. An X user tagged CZ, asking if that link was safe to click on and to download the file.

The founder of the project tweeted that inviting people via e-mail is “a huge security hazard”. He promised to fix this issue.

CZ has been banned from running Binance again both by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the current Binance CEO Richard Teng after CZ pleaded guilty to the charges of assisting money laundering and violating US security laws for which he did a four-month prison sentence this year.