On October 4, according to The New York Times, Binance founder CZ recalled that one day earlier this year, while he was lying in bed handling work—often doing so due to his long-term struggle with chronic pain—he suddenly felt the windows shaking. He got up and went to the balcony, where he saw a trail of smoke in the sky. CZ lives on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, an area that faces Iran across the Persian Gulf, and not long before, Iran had launched a missile towards the UAE. This attack marked the beginning of a geopolitical crisis that would destabilize the entire region, but CZ did not worry excessively. He returned to bed to continue working. 'More people die in traffic accidents than from missiles,' he later stated, 'the security here is very good.'