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Shiba Inu price climbs higher as the community burns 180 million SHIB overnight

  • Shiba Inu price has started an uptrend, posting double-digit gains over the past two weeks. 
  • Over the past 24 hours, 179,387,035 SHIB tokens have been burned, fueling a shortage in circulating supply. 
  • Analysts predict big gains in Shiba Inu with bullish indicators in the Dogecoin-killer’s price trend. 

Shiba Inu price started an uptrend as the circulating supply of the Dogecoin-killer shrinks. The community has burned another 179 million SHIB tokens overnight, pulling them out of the supply. 

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Shiba Inu price climbs consistently as the community burns SHIB

Shiba Inu community has consistently burned SHIB tokens and pulled them out of the supply permanently. Typically, SHIB that is burned is sent to dead wallets, reducing the circulating supply of the Dogecoin-killer. 

As the circulating supply reduces and demand remains steady or increases it has the effect of increasing the value of the SHIB already held by investors. The Shiba Inu community is keen on reducing the supply through further implementation of burn. 

Individual investors and businesses have burned SHIB, in fixed quantities, in the interest of fueling a price rally in Shiba Inu. 

In the past 24 hours, 179,387,035 SHIB tokens were burned. Since the burn, Shiba Inu price started a brief uptrend. The spike in price was followed by a correction. 

Several real-world businesses have announced the acceptance of Shiba Inu as a payment method, confirming the Dogecoin-killer’s real-world use case. 

NOWPayments, a crypto payment gateway has confirmed the active participation of merchants in burn through a special feature. A fixed amount of SHIB tokens could be burned in each transaction, making it simpler to reduce the Dogecoin-killer’s circulating supply. 

Analysts have evaluated the Shiba Inu price trend and predicted big gains in the meme coin. Shiba Inu price chart reveals a catapult pattern, considered the most sought after pattern, since it has a positive outcome. Shiba Inu price could therefore climb 40% in an ideal scenario given the prime setup.

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Ekta Mourya

Ekta Mourya

FXStreet

Ekta Mourya has extensive experience in fundamental and on-chain analysis, particularly focused on impact of macroeconomics and central bank policies on cryptocurrencies.

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