𝚅𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚔 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚋𝚊𝙸𝚗𝚞
An anonymous man built a coin, made someone else the largest holder without telling them, and that person woke up one day with $1 billion he never asked for.
In August 2020 a man calling himself Ryoshi launched Shiba Inu with one quadrillion tokens. No investors. No VCs. His entire plan was written in something he called a woofpaper and it had one move.
Send 50% of the entire supply directly to #Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, without asking him first.
500 trillion #SHIB tokens landed in Vitalik's wallet one morning from a complete stranger. Ryoshi's reasoning was simple. "There is no greatness without a vulnerable point. As long as VB doesn't rug us, Shiba will grow and thrive." He made the most trusted man in crypto his unwilling business partner as a marketing strategy.
By May 2021 those tokens were worth over $1 billion.
Vitalik donated 50 trillion SHIB to India's COVID-19 relief fund, worth $1.2 billion at the time, the largest crypto donation in history. Then he burned 410 trillion of the remaining tokens in a single transaction, erasing $6.7 billion in supply, saying he did not want to be a "locus of power" in a dog coin he never chose.
SHIB pumped on the burn.
In May 2022 Ryoshi deleted every account, every post, every trace of himself and vanished from the internet entirely. His final words were "I am not important, and one day I will be gone without notice. Take the SHIBA and journey upwards frens."
Nobody knows who he is. He never sold a single token. The coin reached a $40 billion market cap.
The founder is gone. The man who received it never wanted it. None of it was supposed to work. All of it did.
#BitcoinReboundsTo$64K