SHIB Coin Burn: 15 Things for Shiba Inu Investors to Know as 410 Trillion Tokens Are Torched

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Shiba Inu (CCC:SHIB-USD) investors just got some good news in the form of a SHIB coin burn by Ethereum (CCC:ETH-USD) co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Here’s everything investors in the doge-base cryptocurrency need to know about the SHIB coin burn.

  • Buterin was gifted a large sum of Shiba Inu coin by the creators.
  • The goal was to legitimize and protect the cryptocurrency by adding it to Buterin’s public wallet.
  • However, the ETH co-creator wasn’t up for that idea.
  • He donated a large amount of the crypto last week.
  • The most recent news is that he sent 410 trillion SHIB coins to a dead wallet address.
  • This has the cryptocurrency no longer being available for circulation.
  • This SHIB coin burn was worth close to $7 billion and represents 90% of what Buterin had in his wallet.
  • It’s also worth pointing out that this also represents about 40% of the total SHIB coin in circulation.
  • News of the SHIB coin burn sent the price of the crypto soaring before it quickly fell back down to normal levels.
  • As for the remaining 10% still held by Buterin, he has plans to donate it to charity.
  • Buterin also publicly warned crypto creators against sending their tokens to his public wall address again.
  • Some believe that the SHIB coin burn will result in the price of the crypto soaring higher over time.
  • However, others have a more negative look.
  • They believe that this move will result in a much smaller growth than what Shiba Inu holders are likely holding out for.
  • Either way, there’s no denying that SHIB coin became much more scarce after Buterin’s move today.

SHIB was up 1.1% as of Monday morning.

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