Just for a day
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2021
i have spent 10 long years on this website and this is easily one of my favorite ever moments on here https://t.co/Fv3f26Xcd9
— unfettered nic carter (@nic__carter) February 19, 2021
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who oversaw the company's decision to buy $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin earlier this year, has joined a curious trend, adopting a Twitter profile photo of an anime woman with glowing red eyes and Bitcoin in the background.
Just for a day
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2021
US Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.), a Bitcoin holder who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, has them too—red laser eyes atop her actual photo.
i have spent 10 long years on this website and this is easily one of my favorite ever moments on here https://t.co/Fv3f26Xcd9
— unfettered nic carter (@nic__carter) February 19, 2021
They join a who's who of Bitcoin advocates that includes CoinShares' executive Meltem Demirors and MicroStrategy's CEO Michael Saylor, all with glowing, demonic-looking eyes.
What's going on here?
"It's meant to convey activation and growing power levels," Neeraj Agrawal, head of communications for cryptocurrency think tank Coin Center, told Decrypt. "Think about when a character's eyes glow in a movie."
According to the website Know Your Meme, the TV trope of characters with glowing eyes was first widely used in meme form after the video game Mass Effect 2 was released in 2010; enemies' eyes in the game glow yellow when they're controlled by another entity. People took to photoshop, added the caption "assuming direct control," and a meme was born.
(If you want your very own laser eyes, try here or here.)
It's taken a while to spread all the way to Bitcoin, but on February 15, crypto podcaster Greg Zaj tweeted "#LaserRayUntil100K" in reference to Bitcoin, which is currently priced at around $55,000, moving all the way to $100,000.
Magdalena Gronowska, an inspector in the Quadriga crypto exchange bankruptcy who helped establish 3iQ's Bitcoin Fund, told Decrypt, "#LaserRayUntil100K is bitcoiners coming together to celebrate the 100k that's in our sight."
As for whether she'll keep the laser eyes on her Twitter profile picture until Bitcoin reaches $100,000, she said, "For a few months, yes."
At the rate Bitcoin is going—a 91% increase since the start of the year—a few months should be more than enough time for Bitcoin to get to six digits.
Ethereum's blockchain capabilities should grow tenfold over the next year, the network's co-founder Vitalik Buterin said. Speaking at ETHGlobal Prague 2025 last week, the crypto entrepreneur predicted that the crypto network behind the second biggest digital coin by market cap should improve costs and speed soon. "In general, I do think there's a lot of room to scale safely," he said. "My view is that generally we should scale L1 by about 10x over the next year and a bit." The network has fac...
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao proposed a new kind of decentralized exchange on Sunday, one that hides trades, positions, and deposits from the public, to protect traders from so-called front-running and liquidation attacks. “Given recent events, I think now might be a good time for someone to launch a dark pool perp DEX,” Zhao wrote on X. “I have always been puzzled with the fact that everyone can see your orders in real-time on a DEX. The problem is worse on a perp DEX where there are liq...
Elon Musk announced on Sunday that X will soon roll out a new messaging feature called XChat, touting capabilities such as encrypted conversations, vanishing messages, file transfers, and audio and video calls. But the post caused confusion after the X CEO said the feature is "built on Rust with (Bitcoin style) encryption, whole new architecture," prompting a flurry of skeptical replies from Bitcoin developers and cryptography experts. "Bitcoin doesn't even use encryption," said Bitcoin Core dev...