Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn
An exchange may have accidentally torched $8.5 million worth of Bitcoin — that’s one of the leading theories after an unidentified wallet sent 107 BTC to an address from which the funds can never be recovered. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s 4-Year Rhythm Is Still Playing Out, Says Crypto CEO Conor Grogan, head of product business operations at Coinbase, said the burn was most likely caused by an exchange that made an error during a cold storage transfer. No Public Explanation From Anyone Involved Five separate Bitcoin addresses carried out the transfers on Monday, all sending funds to a....
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The Shiba Inu community has again ramped up its SHIB burning efforts, causing a massive burn rate spike. Despite SHIB’s tumbling price in the past seven days, Shiba Inu’s burn rate has recorded a nearly 48,000% increase. The SHIB community is determined to cut down the Shiba Inu circulating supply, a feat that many believe will positively impact the token’s price. SHIB Community Intensify Token Burn Efforts Following Slight Decline According to data from the Shiba Inu burn tracker, Shibburn, the SHIB burn rate has spiked 47,908% in the last 24 hours. The SHIB ecosystem swept 28.129....
Over the past 24 hours, the Shiba Inu community destroyed over 100 million SHIB by sending the tokens to Shiba Inu’s dead wallet, a token-burning mechanism that crypto protocols use to control the number of circulating tokens in the market. SHIB Tokens Burned Through Ten Different Transactions According to a Shibburn report, the Shiba Inu Army has collectively destroyed 111,173,988 SHIB tokens within the past 24 hours. The tokens were burned in 10 different transactions by members of the community. Related Reading: Ethereum Addresses In Profit Touches 11-Month High Ahead Of Shapella....
The Shiba Inu burn initiative continues this week but with a drastic decline in volume. The latest figure which shows a decreased participation from investors could have long-running significant implications for the SHIB price. SHIB Burn Rate Drops From 7,700% Spike Over the last 24 hours, Shibburn has shown that the SHIB burn rate has been less than encouraging. The burn tracker revealed a total of 106.72 million tokens burned in the 23-hour period, which is a significant decline of almost 60% from the prior day’s figures. Related Reading: The End Is Near For Trellor (TRB): Crypto Analyst....
A Coinbase-linked wallet sent 140,033,123 Shiba Inu tokens to a burn address on October 15, removing those coins from circulation in a single on-chain move. According to records published by community burn tracker Shibburn, the wallet that carried out the transfer was newly created and had only that one visible SHIB transaction. Related Reading: Dogecoin Sheds 25% As $57M Flees Market — Can The Memecoin Recover? Etherscan data shows the address was funded by a wallet tied to Coinbase, and it currently holds 0.002 ETH, worth roughly $9. Largest Single Burn In Months The 140 million SHIB....
The meme coin currently under the spotlight for its token-burning campaign hit a new burn rate high this Monday. Shiba Inu, the dog crypto, burned close to 200 million coins within the last 24 hours. According to SHIB Burn data, the burn rate of Shib tokens has spiked by about 3000% in the space of 1 day. Furthermore, most of the tokens sent to Shiba Inu’s burn wallet are from individual whale accounts. This burn initiative has taken off big since the beginning of this month. More than 500 million tokens went out of circulation in the first week. At this rate, it is possible the burn rate....