{"id":52071,"date":"2021-10-31T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52071"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:06:43","slug":"edward-snowden-warns-followers-against-investing-in-shiba-inu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/edward-snowden-warns-followers-against-investing-in-shiba-inu\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden warns followers against investing in Shiba Inu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NSA and CIA employee Edward Snowden urged his followers on Twitter to refrain from purchasing the Shiba Inu token (SHIB) \u2014 a clone of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">also if you are mad at this tweet you probably need to reduce your position size.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Snowden (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/1454610191845101574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2021<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIf you have been persuaded to swap your hard-earned savings for new dog money, because a meme promises riches, please carefully assess your chances of outsmarting a market that sold you not even dog money, but a clone of dog money,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Snowden added that those who are angry at this tweet would probably be advised to reduce the size of their position in the asset.<\/p>\n<p>On October 28, the price of Shiba Inu <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/meme-cryptocurrency-shiba-inu-hits-fresh-high-and-enters-the-top-10-by-market-capitalization\">reached a historic high above $0.00008<\/a> and ranked ninth by market capitalization.  Over the week the token surged 85%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/shiba-inu\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Elon Musk said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-denies-investing-in-shiba-inu-as-meme-cryptocurrency-slides\">did not invest in Shiba Inu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NSA and CIA employee Edward Snowden urged his followers on Twitter to refrain from purchasing the Shiba Inu token (SHIB) \u2014 a clone of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1587,1138,1525],"class_list":["post-52071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-edward-snowden","tag-opinions","tag-shiba-inu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52073,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52071\/revisions\/52073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}