Someone sent $0 worth of a dog coin to a man who didn't ask for it. He turned it into the largest crypto donation in history.
> In August 2020 an anonymous person calling himself Ryoshi launched Shiba Inu with one quadrillion tokens
> It had no investors, no VCs or a press release.
> His plan, written in something he called a "woofpaper", was to send 50% of the entire supply directly to Vitalik Buterin.
> He just sent him 500 trillion SHIB tokens to his wallet without warning.
> His reason was: "There is no greatness without a vulnerable point. As long as VB doesn't rug us, Shiba will grow and thrive."
> He intentionally made the co-founder of Ethereum the single largest holder of his memecoin as a marketing strategy without ever telling him.
> Vitalik woke up one day with 50% of a dog coin sitting in his wallet and had no idea what to do with it.
> By May 2021 those tokens were worth over $1 billion.
> He donated 50 trillion SHIB to India's COVID-19 relief fund
> Worth $1.2 billion at the time it was the largest crypto donation in history.
> Then burned 410 trillion of the remaining tokens, destroying $6.7 billion in a single transaction
> Saying he didn't want to be a "locus of power" in a dog coin project.
> SHIB pumped on the news of the burn.
> In May 2022 Ryoshi deleted every account, every blog post, every trace of himself and disappeared.
> His last 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 he built reached a $40 billion market cap. None of it was supposed to work and all of it did.
