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Twitter account @shibburn has spread the word about almost 104 million Shiba Inu tokens destroyed in the past seven days.
A massive sum in SHIB has also been sent to “inferno” addresses over the past twenty-four hours, as reported by @shibburn.
103.89 million SHIB destroyed
@shibburn is a service that tracks SHIB burn transactions, accumulating them from etherscan on its website. Besides, this platform conducts its own SHIB burns.
In a recent tweet, @shibburn shared that during the past week, the Shiba Inu army have transferred a total of 103,898,038 to several unspendable wallets, moving those coins out of the currently circulating SHIB supply.
That took the community 58 transactions to remove that amount of SHIB.
In the last 7 days, there have been a total of 103,898,038 $SHIB tokens burned and 58 transactions. #shibarmy
— Shibburn (@shibburn) March 13, 2022
12.2 million Shiba Inu eliminated in 24+ hours
The same source has tweeted that over the past twenty-four hours and within a few hours that followed, a comprised 12,266,775 SHIB has been burned. The SHIB army keeps destroying tokens in comprised attempts to make the coin's supply shrink, make the coin scarce and push the price up.
In the past 24 hours, there have been a total of 10,383,883 $SHIB tokens burned and 7 transactions. Visit https://t.co/t0eRMnyZel to view the overall total of #SHIB tokens burned, circulating supply, and more. #shibarmy
— Shibburn (@shibburn) March 13, 2022
The website of the company shows that at the moment, there are 549,455,741,773,332 SHIB tokens circulating out there and the Shiba Inu burn rate has been 12.53 percent up.
SHIB price action
The second most biggest meme crypto by market cap, SHIB, entered 2022 at the $0.0000339 level and has been declining since then despite new partnerships – in particular SHIB dev team joined forces with the Welly’s burger outlet and turned into one of the payment options of the US-based AMC movie chain, along with Dogecoin.
On January 22, the token price reached a low of $0.00001864. On February 7, SHIB managed to spike to the $0.00003477.
At the time of writing, the 15-ranked cryptocurrency is changing hands at $0.00002237. SHIB is 74.72 percent down from its historic high of $0.00008845 reached on October 28.