Non-custodial crypto payments processor NOWPayments will add an optional feature that will allow merchants to burn Shiba Inu (SHIB) tokens.
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Coming #soon: the optional $SHIB burn feature for merchants in early 2022!
— NOWPayments (@NOWPayments_io) December 30, 2021
Woof!
The Amsterdam-headquartered company says that it will be burning 3% of its “relationshib” with the community of the top canine coins.
Burning refers to the process of sending SHIB tokens to an unusable address to make sure that they will be removed from circulating for eternity. The process can be compared to stock buybacks. By decreasing the cryptocurrency’s supply and increasing demand, the cryptocurrency’s proponents want to boost the price of the best-performing cryptocurrency of the year.
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In May, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin burned 410 trillion SHIB tokens, which represented 90% of the “gift” he received from Ryoshi, the pseudonymous founder of the Shiba Inu cryptocurrency. The Russian-Canadian programmer also asked token creators not to send him any tokens in the future without his consent.
The Shiba Inu community is now taking the matter into its own hands, destroying a record 545 million last week and moving deflation into a higher gear.
Despite continuous token burns and growing merchant acceptance, Shiba Inu is still down more than 60% from its record high that was registered in late October.
BitPay, the world’s largest crypto payment service, integrated support for Shiba Inu earlier this month.
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