An anonymous man built a coin and made someone else the largest holder without telling them. 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."
> It had one move. Send 50% of the entire supply directly to Vitalik Buterin. The co-founder of Ethereum without asking him.
> 500 TRILLION SHIB tokens landed in Vitalik's wallet one morning from a complete stranger.
> Ryoshi's reasoning "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. The largest crypto donation in history.
> Then burned 410 TRILLION of the remaining tokens in a single transaction, erasing $6.7 BILLION, saying he didn't 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 "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 and all of it did.
Keep bidding... You only need one big win and your story changes forever.
Trust the process π― and never give up π₯
I look forward to a WIN like this π―
What I learned from roundtripping $45M
- My story (0:12)
- Always be spending (1:38)
- Cash is your friend (2:38)
- Sizing with no ego (3:01)
- Be open-minded (3:22)
- My next moves (3:35)
This space is damn difficult. Everyone gatekeeps information that could be a game-changer for you.
The moment you have access to that information, give it your best shot.
Personally, with the experiences Iβve had with crypto and the web3 space, itβs enough to give up.
But guess what, each time it hits me, I learn the lessons involved, pick myself up and keep moving ahead.