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An ethereum whale purchased close to $1.8 million worth of shiba inu as the dogecoin-inspired coin slid this week during a wider sell-off in digital currencies.
The whale — a popular term for a big holder — bought 50 billion of the meme coins on Thursday, according to data from Whalestats, which tracks activity for the 1,000 largest ethereum wallets.
That brought the Jiraiya wallet's total holdings to 1.67 trillion shiba inu, worth $59.6 million.
It follows another big shiba inu bet on Tuesday, when another whale<a href=«https://twitter.com/WhaleStats/status/1468109718661087237?ref_src=» https: markets.businessinsider.com target="_blank"> scooped
up close to 100 billion worth $3.5 million, this time on the Binance Smart Read more on markets.businessinsider.com