Has the ghost of the Brazilian Bitcoin awakened? The community is going wild with photos from Switzerland.

2024 brings with it a mystery that awakens nostalgia in the Brazilian crypto community: did Daniel Fraga, the first YouTuber to talk about Bitcoin in Brazil, finally come out of anonymity?

It all started when a LinkedIn profile of a certain “Bernard Fraga” —senior developer in Switzerland— generated an unexpected stir. The Brazilian libertarian community quickly connected the dots: the photos suspiciously matched the face of the legendary YouTuber who disappeared in 2016 after facing legal troubles in Brazil.

The track that lasted 24 hours

Before the profile disappeared without a trace, someone managed to link the images to Google Maps photos tagged from a KPMG office in Switzerland ( uploaded by a user “Fraga22” in 2022). Coincidence or not, the Brazilian Bitcoin community exploded in speculation.

The problem: There is no official confirmation. The photos could be deepfakes. The profile was deleted in less than a day. Nothing is certain.

Who was Daniel Fraga?

A visionary who bought Bitcoin when no one in Brazil was talking about cryptocurrencies. After being sued by a politician for his criticisms on YouTube, he simply… disappeared. For 8 years, the community could only speculate: Is he alive? Is he a millionaire in Bitcoin? Is he hiding in Switzerland?

If it really is him, he would have acted like Satoshi Nakamoto: building wealth in silence, away from the spotlight.

Verdict: Unresolved Mystery

Livecoins confirmed that there is no active profile of Bernard Fraga on LinkedIn. The photos circulate in private groups without verifiable origin. In 2024, an image proves nothing when there are AI tools to manipulate it.

But the community continues to dream: a Bitcoin pioneer, possibly a millionaire, living peacefully in Europe while everyone remembers him as a legend. Perhaps this is exactly what Daniel Fraga wanted.