Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum Foundation and Bitcoin Magazine. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sent a whopping 410,241,996,771,871.894771826174755464 coins to a dead wallet address – effectively destroying them and now accounting for 41 per cent of the total SHIB in circulation. "For security reasons alone they would have to be moved to a better wallet eventually, and any transaction I make would get interpreted as an action. "But for anyone making coins (or daos, or whatever else) in the future, PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME COINS ON POWER IN YOUR PROJECT WITHOUT MY CONSENT! pic.twitter.com/874pnUPNmQ — Shib (@Shibtoken) May 16, 2021Following his transaction, SHIB released a statement of its own, writing it was the "second time SHIB has made history in the last week".

Source: New Zealand Herald May 17, 2021 08:15 UTC