Amazon has made substantial contribution to burning SHIB tokens in August for this Shiba Inu burner
The Shib Burn platform said that, in August, a significant contribution to the Shib burn overall this month was made through Amazon.
In the meantime, during the period of the last 24 hours, a total of 176,807,968 Shiba Inu has been sent to dead-end wallets.
Breaking 150 Million SHIB for August with Amazon
The @shib_superstore Twitter account founded by smartphone game maker Travis Johnson, which uses its games and online stores to burn SHIB, has announced that it has burned more than $2,000 worth of SHIB this month.
This comprises 149,476,831 Shiba Inu at the current exchange rate. Johnson stated several times that Amazon has provided substantial aid in burning Shiba Inu this month.
We broke $2,000 for the month! Of which $1300 is from Bricks Buster, but Amazon and Upside have also had a serious impact.
In another recent tweet, he stated that virtually any purchase on Amazon that goes through his affiliate program with the e-commerce giant will “aid in burning SHIB.” In August so far, Johnson has managed to send 25,637,181 SHIB to “inferno” wallets via Amazon. That amount of meme tokens is worth $342.
177 million SHIBs removed, burn rate up 35.36%
In other news, the Shibburn Tracker of Bern Transactions reports that in the past 24 hours, a total of 176,807,968 Shiba Inu have been taken out of circulation by being locked up in wallets without spending any money.
The removal of this SHIB stash from the circulating supply has pushed the overall burn rate up by 35.36%.
Mysterious whale bought 52.4 billion SHIB
As previously covered by U.Today, a mysterious whale acquired 52,470,888,570 Shiba Inu, paying $744,561 for it. According to the details of the transfer on Etherscan, the purchase was made on the Binance exchange.
After that transaction, the total balance on that wallet comprised 657,401,453,770.745. This amount of SHIB is worth $8,789,457.
Previously, the top 100 Ethereum whales had bought a Shiba Inu worth $37.6 million, which is 2,827,067,669,172 SHIB tokens.
