ether ETH/USD co-founder Vitalik Buterins The latest stand against sh*tcoins didn’t quite go as planned.

What happened: It looks like his words didn’t carry the weight he was hoping for: instead, he was sent even more “shitcoins” that he tried to vilify.

In a March 9 post on the subreddit r/Testingtesting62831, Buterin described Bite BISS/USD and other sh*tcoins with “no redeeming cultural or moral value” and said they will “probably lose most of the money you have invested in them.”

Buterin added, “I fully support these projects.”

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Shortly after the post, Buterin was sent 250,000 BITE tokens, valued at $0.011. That means this gift was worth $2,750.

buterin went on a “shitcoin” selling spree On March 7th, over $700,000 worth of tokens – including 3.4 million BITE tokens – were paid out for Ether.

Price promotion: At the time of writing, BITE was trading at $0.00035, up 1% over the past 24 hours. according to Benzinga Pro.

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