
KEY POINTS
- Some crypto users associated CZ's sentence to the nearly $3,000 drop of Bitcoin
- Many encouraged Zhao to 'come back stronger' after serving his time in jail
- Zhao pleaded guilty and stepped down as Binance's CEO last year
Changpeng Zhao, founder and former CEO of Binance, has been sentenced to four months behind bars after he pled guilty last year to failing to ensure that the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by market value had an effective anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) system.