Crypto Twitteratis were shocked when Shiba Inu’s pseudonymous founder Ryoshi deleted all tweets, and blogs in an apparent indication of stepping away from the community.
The creator behind the popular meme coin has on many past occasions given clues that they would eventually move out and has often downplayed their significance and role in Shiba Inu. In the then-deleted Medium post, the founder reportedly said:
“I have said from the beginning, I am a nobody, I am not important. The efforts to unmask my ‘identity’ even if successful would be underwhelming. I am just some guy of no consequence tapping at a keyboard and I am replaceable. I am Ryoshi.”
Truer to its words, Ryoshi’s Twitter account is still up but with all activity erased. At the time of this post, while his Twitter account is active, he deleted all of his posts and changed his Twitter profile photo to a picture of Buddhist Jetsun Milarepa, who was a well-known Tibetan poet and yogi.
The header image of his account features a picture of a cloud and a half-moon, which also became a source of speculation that this might be another revelation. Others pointed out that Ryoshi was just following the Bitcoin [BTC] founder Satoshi Nakamoto.
Ryoshi’s identity has remained anonymous since the project launched in August 2020. In addition to that, they have also followed a hands-off approach to the meme coin, much like Dogecoin [DOGE] founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer.
Shiba Inu Developer Pledge To “Actualize Ryoshi’s Vision”
Meanwhile, lead developers such as Shytoshi Kusama have stated that the project will carry on and continue to “actualize Ryoshi’s vision and plan for this grand experiment” of building a decentralized meme coin ecosystem.
But fans were confused with the timing. Some anticipate that this might be a new journey for the SHIB ecosystem. Others appeared to remain nonchalant. Soon followers started tweeting, “I am Ryoshi” symbolizing that the community has become decentralized in its truest sense.
Shiba Inu was launched as an alternative to Dogecoin [DOGE] in August 2020 by an anonymous person or group under the name Ryoshi. According to its founders, it was created as an experiment in decentralized spontaneous community building.