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“Flappy Bird” was slated to relaunch in 2024 after greater than ten years of absence from the App Retailer — however there are indicators that it is only a crypto Ponzi scheme.
On Thursday, a bunch of alleged “Flappy Bird fans” introduced that they might revive the decade-dead international hit. Whereas many had been excited, an equal quantity appeared skeptical.
And, because it seems, there was a superb motive for the skepticism. The relaunch seems designed to hock crypto.
Cyber-security researcher Varun Biniwale has uncovered hidden pages on the Flappy Chicken web site that exhibits heavy references to Internet 3, micro-transactions, and the cryptocurrency Solana. Biniwale additionally uncovered a playable model of the sport with a leaderboard full of crypto-based usernames. The playable model references a $FLAP token.
As AppleInsider identified earlier than, the creator of the unique Flappy Chicken took the sport down in 2014, lower than a yr after it was created. Dong Nguyen, the creator, had feared the sport had change into too addictive.
Some might marvel if Nguyen lastly gave up and bought the trademark for the sport to a different firm for some fast money. That does not seem like the case.
In response to Inverse, courtroom paperwork confirmed that Gametech Holdings filed to take over the trademark in September 2023. The corporate argued that the trademark had been deserted, exhibiting that Nguyen had gone on report saying he’d not develop the sport.
In consequence, the courtroom awarded Gametech Holdings the correct to buy it.
Afterward, Gametech Holdings bought the trademark to The Flappy Chicken Basis. And, as VideoGamer notes, recreation designer Michael Roberts heads up that firm.
Roberts is studio head at 1208 Productions, a studio that touts itself as a “pioneer in the Web 3 space.” Moreover, the corporate has its personal NFT model known as “Deez.”
So, for these hoping the return of Flappy Chicken would harken again to the easier occasions of 2013, that does not appear probably. As a substitute, the titular hero seems to have gone the way in which of the crypto bro.