"Shaolin Temple Surprised by 'Virtual Asset Territory'? Shi Yongxin's Team Caught in Cryptocurrency Rumors"

Recently, Shi Yongxin, the former abbot of Shaolin Temple, has once again been thrust into the spotlight amid rumors that his team is deeply involved in cryptocurrency trading, involving cross-border money transfers, money laundering, and the possession of huge amounts of encrypted assets, potentially amounting to billions of yuan. There are even claims that mining equipment might be hidden within the temple.

Various leaks suggest that Shi Yongxin's team's suspected operations include cross-border financial channels, large-scale virtual asset management, conversion of followers' donations, and attempts at digitalizing religious IP. It is reported that through the "Shaolin International Dharma Promotion Special Account," about 1.3 billion yuan was transferred over eight years to a company in the British Virgin Islands, which after being laundered through underground financial channels, part of it was converted into Bitcoin for purchasing overseas real estate, and mixer technology was used to obscure the flow of funds. There are reports that a USB drive found in his residence contained 18 Ethereum wallet keys, with a total value possibly exceeding 100 million US dollars, and the mnemonic phrases were even engraved on prayer beads.

Moreover, it is rumored that the QR code donations via the Shaolin Temple's related app could be directly converted into USDT, with an annual conversion scale exceeding 200 million yuan; whether there are mining machines within the temple, and the team's plans to launch "Digital Prayer Beads NFT" for tokenizing religious IP are also widely discussed.