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Everyone loves dogs, right? Perhaps, everyone likes Shiba Inu dogs too? Now, let’s associate that dog with crypto. Thinking about Dogecoin? Well, nobody can blame you. However, is a small part of you thinking about SHIB too? Well, bingo. You know why, because one would argue that SHIB today is bigger than DOGE on the price charts.
The most famous meme coin after Dogecoin, Shiba Inu Coin is only the second meme coin, after DOGE, to be among the top 15 cryptocurrencies. Marketed as a Dogecoin killer, Shiba Inu (SHIB) was created by an anonymous cryptocurrency developer in August 2020. SHIB has continued to grow in these 2 years, eliciting positive responses from industry giants such as Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>Big thanks to the Shiba Inu community, whose cryptocurrency made these fellowships possible!— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) July 20, 2022
Since its launch, the altcoin has maintained a rivalry with DOGE, even though the latter continues to grab a larger share of the market.
SHIB is an ERC-20 coin that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and it aims to compete with, and possibly outpace DOGE. Its developers call it “the Dogecoin killer”. Many who missed out on the DOGE craze are now betting on SHIB, curious to experience the next best thing among the meme coins.
Shiba Inu has been known to be a disrupter when it comes to management and operations. The enterprise began with a supply of one quadrillion; its founder Ryoshi first locked 50% in Uniswap and then burned another 50% to Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum.
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