‘Stop Fudding’ Shiba Inu Lead Developer Warns Bitboy, Ryoshi Revealed?

Recall that Kusama and Bitboy traded words yesterday as the latter promised to disclose the identity of Ryoshi, the mysterious SHIB creator.

Shytoshi Kusama, the anonymous volunteer lead developer for the Shiba Inu ecosystem, has dismissed prominent crypto Youtuber Ben Armstrong, aka Bitboy, with a “kind request” to stop spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) within the Shiba Inu community.

The developer did this in the third part of a largely deleted thread today, taking a leaf from Bitboy’s book by adding that the YouTuber now has “real beef to deal with,” a jab at the influencer who has been named in a $1 billion class action suit against alleged paid FTX promoters. It is worth noting that Bitboy has refuted the claims in the lawsuit as completely false, launching a social media campaign against the opposing lawyers for allegedly failing to do their due diligence and revealing intentions of filing a countersuit for defamation. 

It will not be the first time users would accuse the YouTuber of receiving payments to promote potentially fraudulent projects.

“I sat in your live stream and you said nothing about Shib of substance, ignored me, and blew us off,” Kusama wrote. “Therefore I will disengage as you are a waste of time. Finally, I wouldn’t call it beef. You now have real beef to deal with. Just consider it a kind request to stop fudding.”

3. I sat in your live stream and you said nothing about Shib of substance, ignored me, and blew us off. Therefore I will disengage as you are a waste of time.

Finally, I wouldn't call it beef. You now have real beef to deal with. Just consider it a kind request to stop fudding.

— Shytoshi Kusama™ (@ShytoshiKusama) March 17, 2023

Recall that Kusama and Bitboy traded words yesterday as the latter promised to disclose the identity of Ryoshi, the mysterious SHIB creator. 

Ryoshi Revealed?

Notably, Bitboy, in a 20-minute video shared early today, tapped community organizer (fund) -as he would be referred to in this article on request- one of the creators of Unification, which has helped the Shiba Inu ecosystem with projects like ShibaSwap and Shibarium as Ryoshi. However, it is worth noting that the evidence is unclear and circumstantial at best.

Community organizer (fund) has also taken to Twitter following the video to dismiss these claims describing the information as “anecdotal.” The FUND founder also denied having a close working relationship with disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried who he was in Karma DAO with.

It bears mentioning that a community organizer (fund), like Ryoshi, has erased his social media activity, asserting that, in his case, he does not appreciate the “heated lifestyle.” The Crypto Basic reached out to the FUND founder to understand his relationship with the SHIB project in light of messages shared by Bitboy that show him promoting the project. See his statement below:

“In 2020 the industry was very small. Active defi was maybe 1500-2000 wallets. Probably most people had multiple so active participants was less. Every single person was one degree removed from everybody else. I bought Shib, I sold Shib before it went moon and like most people, when I bought a project I shared it to my peer network and contributed how I saw best in a decentralized fashion. The founder of Shib named him/herself Ryoshi and was very active then and many people spoke with them. As to what is my relationship with the SHIB project, this is where the story starts. The company that I helped to found, Unification was contracted by the active developers of Shib to help with their oracles and blockchain since we build enterprise blockchains.   The internet seeing that I was the only real name that had some degree of connection to the project did it’s thing.“