Pižama Shiba Inu Vitalika Buterina – mirovna ponudba?

Največji dogodek Ethereum na svetu, EthDenver, se je zaključil včeraj. Deset dni so se v Denverju zbrali nekateri najbistrejši umi na planetu, ki so predstavljali in razpravljali o vseh vrstah tem, povezanih z Ethereumom.  

Still only six years old, but already at a market cap of $328 trillion, the world’s second biggest crypto offers technology that has facilitated all kinds of thrilling applications such as NFTs, DAOs and the launch of other cryptocurrencies, to name a few. So naturally, the day after the event has concluded, I want to discuss a pair of pyjamas.

Surprisingly, however, Shiba didn’t ramp. In fact, it continued to lull.

Zgodba

You’ll recall that last year, there was brief hysteria in the markets when Vitalik looked ready to “dump” the 50% of Shiba tokens which had been sent to him by the anonymous founder, Ryoshi, when Shiba was launched back in August 2020.

Started as a joke token inspired by Dogecoin, half the supply was sent to Vitalik, likely done on a whim; a tribute to one of the greatest minds in crypto, while seen as a funny way to “burn” (remove from supply) half the supply. And for a while, as Shiba grew steadily, that’s the way it worked – a proxy burn wallet. Vitalik likely had no idea the coins were in his wallet, or what Siba even was.

Seveda vsi vemo, kaj se je zgodilo potem. Shiba se je dvignil severno od tržne kapitalizacije v višini 14 milijard dolarjev in nenadoma se je Vitalik soočil z resnično moralno dilemo, kaj storiti s približno 7 milijardami dolarjev, na katerih je zdaj sedel. Če bi prodal, bi to nedvomno znižalo tržno ceno, vlagatelji pa bi ostali v rokah. Toda ali bi lahko res sedel tam na milijardah in milijardah dolarjev, medtem ko se je toliko ljudi po vsem svetu borilo za preživetje?

He decided he couldn’t, preceding to donate a billion dollars worth of SHIBA to the Indian COVID relief fund. Broadcast live on the blockchain, Vitalik’s transaction sent the Shiba price into freefall as the market feared Vitalik was about to donate his entire stack – “Vitalik is dumping on us!”.

Dilemma

I really felt for Vitalik in a way. It’s a mind-boggling amount of power for one person to hold; he never asked for that immense responsibility – the tokens were sent to him without consent, when nobody even knew what Shiba was. It was a colossal amount of money that could help a lot of people, regardless of whether the coin’s founder sent him the amount with the expectation that he would just burn the tokens.

“I don’t want to be a locus of power of that kind” – Vitalik Buterin

Skupnost Shiba je bila razburjena. Toda Vitalik je pozneje zažgal preostale žetone, ki jih je imel, in se nekoliko odkupil zvestim Shiba. Trg se je stabiliziral in cena si je opomogla (pet mesecev pozneje je celo poskočila na novo najvišjo vrednost v zgodovini in dosegla tržno kapitalizacijo 40 milijard dolarjev).   

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It’s a crazy tale, but with Vitalik sporting Shiba pyjamas at the conference, it looks like he has made peace with the chaotic meme coin. There doesn’t appear to be any deeper meaning, aside from Vitalik just goofing around. The market also seems to agree, looking at the muted price response. So perhaps it should merely be viewed as a light-hearted conclusion to how a stranger-than-fiction story of how a 27 year-old computer whizz became the reluctant protagonist in a surreal tale tying together doggy memes, thousands of overnight millionaire investors and a country struggling under the weight of a COVID crisis.  

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