Just now, Vitalik posted on Warpcast: I don’t have a dog of my own... My family doesn’t have one either, only cats.
As a result, the Ethereum chain Vitalik Buterin's MEME coin MISHA, which has been going viral in the past two days, plummeted, falling by 61%.
The frantic MEME coin hunters took GAS to nearly 100.
Vitalik didn’t say he had a dog, so where did this dog come from? A self-written article just came out, which may be a complete farce.
What happened? The following content is all from the prank author's own statement:
I found out about Vitalik’s upcoming movie about him and Ethereum. I was curious about how to watch the movie so I visited the film’s production website: https://ethereumfilm.xyz/Trailermint
There I discovered that I could wait until the world premiere on September 18th, or get early access to the private premiere by becoming one of the top three contributors through a donation (MINT).
In addition to being able to watch the film in advance, the top three also have some benefits, such as being able to choose their own logo or easter egg in the "Contributing Producer" section in the end credits.
What can I do? After all I am a prankster, I know a lot of people will watch this movie and then launch a coin, I have the best idea. I know my best way is to get a pet. Vitalik's pet.
I started by checking out Vitalik’s social network, but this boring nerd never mentioned any pets…
Then I looked at his dad's social network and oh my god he was posting AI every day. Found a few cats but after doing research found out they were already known and posted.
One day I was checking Dima’s posts and he had posted a brand new picture: a dog!
I'm almost done with my idea. Put the dog at the end of the movie... but there's a small problem. How can the DEGENs issue coins without a name?
So I thought: let me give this picture a name. Let me make it seem more believable, I added a Russian text to make it sound like what Vitalik's family would say (they are of Russian descent), so I googled the most popular dog names in Russia and voilà!
Finally, I submitted all the content, including pictures and text details, via email.
When the film was released, I received a link and I recorded different segments, one of which was the segment of "Misha" in the subtitles.
I tweeted a few things here and there on Twitter about different clips, with the credits.
Finally, a bunch of coins are being launched named after Misha, claiming he is Vitalik’s dog, haha:
1) I invented this name
2) It might not even be Vitalik’s dog, at most it’s Dima’s dog.
The above content comes from this Telegram group: https://web.telegram.org/a/#-1002485209908
Okay, that’s the end of the story.
We don't know whether this person actually made any profit from this.
Judging from the current information, many MEME veterans who had heavily invested in Vitalik Buterin’s MISHA have fallen.
However, with the sharp drop of MISHA, Vitalik cat MEME coin BORIS soared 6 times in a short period of time.
In the past few days, many monsters and Vitalik have been born around Vitalik 's dog, cat, crotch snake... Even Vitalik himself joked: MEMECOIN on Twitter is so magical recently.