Never-ending Ethereum ‘exit scam’ ends, paying $2.8M to anonymous winner

The shameless greed-based exit scam experiment FOMO3D claims it has paid out its massive cryptocurrency jackpot to one lucky individual, whose identity remains unknown – only some don’t think it was won fairly.

In a tweet spotted by ETHnews, Team Just, the developers behind the exit scam gave a brief but congratulatory message to an unknown Ethereum ETH wallet owner, after becoming the lucky recipient of 10,469 ETH. At the time of writing this is about $2.8 million.

For those out of the loop, FOMO3D is a sort of Ponzi-gambling crossover scheme, built on Ethereum based smart contracts.

The developers of the game position it as an experiment in greed. The core premise of the game is quite simple. There is a pot of Ethereum, there are keys to that pot, and there is a countdown timer.

Players of the game buy keys to that pot of Ethereum, when they do, the pot grows in value and some time is added to the clock. When the clock hits zero, the last…