Of courseit was Bitcoin Cash.
The man accused of stealing a military armored vehicle in Virginia on Tuesday and joyriding it 60 miles before being arrested is passionate about more than just living his life a quarter-mile at a time. A quick glance at his Twitter account also shows him to be a Bitcoin Cash evangelist.
SEE ALSO: This rap song tries to explain bitcoin cash and is ridiculously greatThat's right, he's all about what Bitcoin Cash supporters (and practically no one else — even Amazon's Alexa has dunked on Bitcoin Cash) insist is the "real bitcoin."
You may have caught video of the chase on social media. It was quite a thing to behold.
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According to the Associated Press, the man accused of stealing the vehicle from the National Guard base at Fort Pickett in Blackstone is none other than the 29-year-old Joshua Philip Yabut. The AP also reports that Yabut was tweeting before the incident.
"tryna explain to my gf why i support bitcoin cash (the holiest chain)"
"Hours before the vehicle drove off the base, an account confirmed by the Guard as Yabut's tweeted a Wikipedia entry about the M113 armored personnel carrier, which is similar to the M577 vehicle police chased, and a screenshot of a map around the area where the vehicle eventually stopped," notes the AP report. "He wrote a series of odd tweets Tuesday, including: 'where is this damn water buffalo' 'all i wanna do is get an anime wife' and 'wow I think I just discovered a large illegal spy operation in the us government.'"
Let's take a look at what appears to be his Twitter account.
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And just so you know we're not trying to pin these hijinks on an innocent BCH fan, here are a bunch of the tweets the AP says were confirmed by the National Guard to have come from his account.
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A quick glance through the account shows that Yabut had more on his mind than anime wives. Specifically, that aforementioned sweet sweet Bitcoin Cash.
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And this wasn't just some passing fancy. While a lot of his Bitcoin Cash-specific tweets were from late 2017, he still has "BCH" — the abbreviation for Bitcoin Cash — in his Twitter name.
Thankfully, no one was reported injured in the roughly two-hour chase, and Yabut was safely taken into custody.
His legal fate, however, remains unclear — much like the long-term prospects for his beloved BCH.