On Monday, June 26, the second rate on the capitalization of the crypto currency, Ethereum, went down sharply, thus reacting to the rumors about the tragic death of Vitalik Buterin as a result of an accident. This is reported by the publication Bitsonline.
The first "urgent news" appeared on the evening of June 25 in the branch / biz / anonymous web forum 4chan. The message was published under the heading "Vitalik Buterin's Death Confirmed," but there were no supporting references in it.
The post began to be actively discussed, but none of the commentators also failed to provide evidence of the death of the creator of Ethereum.
After a while, comments on the "news" became even more alarming, since Buterin himself still did not submit "signs of life" in social networks. Soon in Wikipedia there were first corrections that "Vitalik was a Russian programmer":
After a while the message from 4chan was picked up by the "yellow press". So, VioNews published on Twitter a "report from the place of death":
To the relief of the Ethereum fans, Vitalik Buterin nevertheless appeared on the net, publishing the Selfi with the last transaction and the block number.
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"Tragic news" had an extremely negative impact on the course of the Ether. So on the chart of the Bitfinex exchange you can see that the decrease in the price of Ethereum has accelerated over the past 24 hours.
In general, over the past day, the weighted average rate of ETH sank 14.5%.
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