The latest victim of 'Pi Thu'

Bybit and Ben Zhou became the target of "Pi thu" attack.

In the cryptocurrency world, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou is one of the leaders who expressed the strongest opposition to Pi Network. He does not trust the project model and team. At the same time, he also called for not listing Pi because he was concerned that it would harm those who do not fully understand the industry, especially the elderly customer group.

It was Ben Zhou’s contrarian views that made him the target of attacks by extremist “Pi hands”. A small portion of the project’s community of over 60 million users was enough to adversely affect Ben Zhou and Bybit.

Specifically, this exchange was recently attacked on social networks and app markets. A large number of people rushed to give one-star reviews, causing the average rating for Bybit on Google Play Store to drop to 2.7 points. Most of the outstanding comments came from Pi miners. Before Ben Zhou warned about the Pi Network project, Bybit's average rating was 4.2/5 stars.

Bybit's rating dropped sharply due to Pi's attack. Photo: GG Play.

“Poor security, hackers stole money, and even mocked Pi, so he got punished,” commented GH account. “The CEO speaks like a child,” another customer commented.

In fact, the Bybit hack has been proven not to be the exchange's fault. The problem arose from the issuer of the Safe multi-signature wallet. At the same time, the cryptocurrency exchange has also managed to handle the major incident without affecting user assets. Regarding the statement against Pi Network, Ben Zhou's opinion is also supported by many KOLs in the cryptocurrency world.

Before Bybit, Binance was also another victim of “Pi thu”. The extremist group claimed that the exchange took advantage of Pi Network, deliberately opening a voting program to attract users. In the end, Binance did not list Pi despite overwhelming support.

Binance has an average rating of just 1.5 stars and the decline continues. Last week, the app on Google Play had a 4.7/5 star rating with over 2.2 million votes. In a short time, the number of reviews has increased by more than 30% to 2.9 million. However, the exchange's reputation has declined.

Google has now removed negative reviews on the Binance app. The average rating has been restored to 4.4/5 stars.

According to Gummicube , apps suffer a lot when they receive negative reviews. Their distribution in browsers and app stores will decrease. Conversion rates will also be lower because customers are skeptical about the quality.

This extreme reaction is not new. The Pi mining community is often provoked, with large numbers of cyberattacks against parties that disagree with and criticize the project.

In fact, Binance made it clear when they opened the poll that they wanted to consult with the community. The decision to list the Pi Network project or not is subject to moderation and evaluation from the team according to a fixed process. This was reiterated again in the post announcing the results.