# Vitalik burns $6.7B of Shiba to reward generous hodlers
“# Vitalik burns $6.7B of Shiba to reward generous hodlers ” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has burned nearly half of the supply of the popular Dogecoin clone, Shiba Inu (SHIB). In a statement embedded into the transaction on May 16, Vitalik Buterin explained why he decided to burn $6.7 billion worth of SHIB tokens, emphasizing…