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Story: Vitalik Explains his Struggle with His Private Key on Two Papers After Shiba Inu

By Maheen Hernandez

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Vitalik at the Lex Fridman interview: If the leading Dogecoin were 50 billion dollars, then surely the second largest Dog token deserves you know at least 7 or 8 billion.

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I think that is kind of how silly the mindset of the Shiba people is. So, bad, they also did this other gimmick.  They gave me half the SHIBA token supply.

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So, around the end of 2020, there was this weird project called Tellor. I think they are ChainLink competitor or something like this.

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Now, the Shiba people were cleverer - instead of dumping to that wallet dumped to my cold wallet.

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Right, and when that number is just stored on memory on your computer or the phone. It is really easy to access.

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So, it is cold wallet and all the money is out of the cold wallet and so it is safe for me to talk about it now, but it was a laptop that was sitting in Canada, and I also had 2…

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So, because of CoVid travel restrictions and the cold wallet in Canada, it was very difficult for me to access it. I am not sure they knew this.

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Now, there is a lot of good things that you can do with that amount of money. It would be a waste to just see and go.

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I actually had to call up my family and tell them to read out the number off of their paper and I entered that in to a fresh laptop that I brought and then I put the other number…

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