4chan’s Vitalik Buterin Death Hoax Crashes Ethereum Price
A hoax circulated on online forums today that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin had been killed in a car crash. It was later debunked, but not before the ether (ETH) price crashed from over $300 USD to $260.
The news appeared on 4chan’s /biz/ thread at 4:30PM EST on 25th June. The poster cited another post on a Slack channel. Although the header read “Vitalik Buterin confirmed dead” the post provided no link or evidence.
In true 4chan style, other commenters piled on to discuss the “news”, although none of them added any more detail.
Forum and social media posters became uneasy after several hours passed without any response or sign of life from Buterin. However the 4chan post appeared when it was still very early morning in Singapore, where Buterin currently lives.
One editor altered Buterin’s Wikipedia page to past tense.
Source: http://bitsonline.com/ethereum-vitalik-death-hoax/?utm_content=buffer08167
What ever happened to that etherium social network that was supposed to take on steemit?
I bought at the dip before I had even heard the news. Glad it's fake, for many reasons.
some people can go extra miles to make things happen, this kind of news could make some investors pull our much of their money from ETH.
OMG! What will happens next?
some pretty gangster shit right there! I sure as hell bought! lol
Another example of fake news becoming more powerful than real news. People no longer wait for confirmation of anything now before they act.