{"id":8886,"date":"2022-12-28T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/logan-pauls-nft-game-is-a-big-crypto-scam\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:11:03","slug":"logan-pauls-nft-game-is-a-big-crypto-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/logan-pauls-nft-game-is-a-big-crypto-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Paul\u2019s NFT \u2018Sport\u2019 Is A Large Crypto Rip-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 eLNveM align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" data-id=\"f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"An image of Logan Paul in his &quot;I'll Never Fight Again&quot; YouTube video from November 2022.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 loxZOX has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:1920px\" data-alt=\"An image of Logan Paul in his &quot;I'll Never Fight Again&quot; YouTube video from November 2022.\" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"fair-use\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 dnhHtZ js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.3%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 lktKQM image-hydration-wrapper\">\n<div><img alt=\"An image of Logan Paul in his &quot;I'll Never Fight Again&quot; YouTube video from November 2022.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_80,pg_1,q_80,w_80\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 80w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_140\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 140w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_265\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 265w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_340\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 340w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_490\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 490w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_645\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 645w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_740\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 740w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_965\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 965w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1165\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 1165w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1315\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 1315w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1465\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 1465w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1600\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;(max-width: 25em) calc(100vw - 32px),&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;(max-width: 37.31em) calc(100vw - 32px),&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;(min-width: 37.37em) and (max-width: 49.94em) calc(100vw - 32px),&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 63.69em) 800px,&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;(min-width: 63.75em) and (max-width: 85.19em) calc(66.5vw - 32px),&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;800px&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;\" draggable=\"auto\" data-chomp-id=\"f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-alt=\"An image of Logan Paul in his &quot;I'll Never Fight Again&quot; YouTube video from November 2022.\" data-anim-src=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/f21c3e21542bab866268f34306fd468b\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"An image of Logan Paul in his &quot;I'll Never Fight Again&quot; YouTube video from November 2022.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">YouTuber and web persona Logan Paul has discovered himself with a large goal on his brow not too long ago. Paul, who\u2019s been on one thing of a redemption arc these previous few years following the <span>\u201csuicide forest\u201d<\/span> fiasco in December 2017, is again in scorching water after crypto investigator Stephen \u201cCoffeezilla\u201d Findeisen revealed a three-part video sequence trying into <span>CryptoZoo<\/span>, a blockchain \u201csport\u201d Paul as soon as closely promoted. There are simply two obtrusive issues right here: The sport doesn\u2019t exist but, and Paul\u2019s most ardent followers and early buyers have misplaced a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} within the technique of supporting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Logan Paul, the older brother of boxer and media persona <span>Jake Paul<\/span>, is a YouTuber who started creating content material on Vine within the early 2010s earlier than migrating to Google\u2019s video platform as soon as Vine shuttered. He recurrently uploads vlog-style movies during which he presents viewers a voyeuristic look into his each day life and the assorted shenanigans he engages in. Whereas already a controversial determine throughout his early content material creation days, Paul didn\u2019t actually draw the web\u2019s ire till December 2017 when he filmed a video in Japan\u2019s <span>Aokigahara Forest<\/span> during which he and members of his crew filmed and interacted with a lifeless physique in a fashion many thought-about tasteless and inappropriate. (Aokigahara has a status for being a web site of frequent suicides.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">This video and the following response to it completely tanked Paul\u2019s profession for a lot of 2018. Nevertheless, since then, Paul\u2019s been rehabilitating his picture as a media persona {and professional} wrestler, <span>signing to WWE\u2019s Uncooked<\/span> whereas <span>internet hosting a YouTube podcast<\/span> that boasts over 4 million subscribers. Dude\u2019s doing very nicely for himself. Nevertheless, he\u2019s the web\u2019s essential character once more following what seems to be his involvement in one of many largest crypto scams that has been uncovered thus far.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=youtube-video-386p68_lDHA&amp;start=0\" data-chomp-id=\"386p68_lDHA\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/386p68_lDHA\" id=\"youtube-386p68_lDHA\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span data-chomp-id=\"386p68_lDHA\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/386p68_lDHA\" id=\"youtube-386p68_lDHA\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"sc-1ptbguh-0 hxeMec caption\">Coffeezilla<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">In a three-part video sequence totaling a little bit over an hour, <span>Stephen \u201cCoffeezilla\u201d Findeisen<\/span>\u2014a YouTuber who \u201cuncovers scams, fraudsters, and pretend gurus which can be preying on determined folks with misleading promoting\u201d\u2014seemed into CryptoZoo. What the hell is CryptoZoo? Nicely, as <span>Paul explains it<\/span>, it\u2019s a \u201cactually enjoyable sport that earns you cash.\u201d In keeping with the <span>official web site<\/span>, which says the sport is at the moment \u201cpresent process upgrades to the core infrastructure of the ecosystem,\u201d CryptoZoo is an \u201cautonomous ecosystem that permits ZooKeepers to purchase, promote, and commerce unique animals and hybrids.\u201d Principally, it\u2019s an NFT sport during which gamers buy zoo cash, CryptoZoo\u2019s in-game foreign money, to purchase egg NFTs which can be hatched to grow to be animals. As soon as hatched, you then breed these animals collectively to make hybrids and the rarer the hybrid, the upper the each day yield of zoo cash. Money these out and growth, you\u2019re pulling in cash. In brief, it\u2019s structured to work like passive earnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Sadly, this \u201cplay-to-earn\u201d NFT sport crammed with hand-made artwork\u2014as Paul likes to closely emphasize on his podcast <em>Impaulsive<\/em>\u2014has by no means but been playable, regardless of letting folks sink tons of cash into it. Coffeezilla found that, since CryptoZoo\u2019s introduction in 2021, Paul stans have spent some $2.5 million on eggs alone, with the coin itself skyrocketing to a market cap of roughly $2 billion. Some people Coffeezilla talked to shelled out tens, typically a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} on CryptoZoo as a result of they believed Paul was a \u201cmodified man\u201d and he was making a \u201cprotected place\u201d for the everyperson to spend money on cryptocurrency. Seems they have been unsuitable, not less than on the second half, as a result of now these persons are out hundreds of {dollars}.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=youtube-video-wvzyDg40-yw&amp;start=0\" data-chomp-id=\"wvzyDg40-yw\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/wvzyDg40-yw\" id=\"youtube-wvzyDg40-yw\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span data-chomp-id=\"wvzyDg40-yw\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/wvzyDg40-yw\" id=\"youtube-wvzyDg40-yw\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"sc-1ptbguh-0 hxeMec caption\">Coffeezilla<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Rob, or Helicopter Bob, one of many victims Coffeezilla video-chatted with, stated he misplaced \u201cslightly below $7,000 with CryptoZoo.\u201d Helicopter Bob defined that the passive earnings, the venture\u2019s core mechanic, \u201cby no means did [work] from the start and wasn\u2019t even written into the contract the place it confirmed you have been truly yielding with Zoo.\u201d He went on to say that \u201cthere was no technique to declare your yield [and] there by no means was.\u201d Principally, folks have been placing cash right into a system that was offering zero returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Worse but, as an unnamed particular person advised Coffeezilla in a separate video name, those that invested in CryptoZoo couldn\u2019t even hatch the eggs they purchased. \u201cIt\u2019s only a image,\u201d the particular person stated concerning the eggs. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can do with it. It\u2019s principally price nothing in any respect.\u201d So, you\u2019ve obtained diehard Paul followers pining to play a nonfunctioning sport and dropping cash within the course of. A sport, thoughts you, that also doesn\u2019t work to today.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=youtube-video-8-fugWMBwCg&amp;start=1\" data-chomp-id=\"8-fugWMBwCg\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/8-fugWMBwCg\" id=\"youtube-8-fugWMBwCg\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span data-chomp-id=\"8-fugWMBwCg\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/8-fugWMBwCg\" id=\"youtube-8-fugWMBwCg\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"sc-1ptbguh-0 hxeMec caption\">Coffeezilla<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">In Coffeezilla\u2019s movies, we hear Paul clarify sure points with CryptoZoo\u2019s growth. Particularly, he says a \u201cdeveloper fled to Switzerland\u201d with the supply code and held it hostage for $1 million, and for this reason the sport\u2019s been damaged. However this developer, who Coffeezilla spoke to in the middle of his investigation, claims that he hadn\u2019t been paid in any respect for his work on CryptoZoo, regardless of bringing on a crew of 30 engineers and burning $50,000 per week to construct the NFT venture. One other CryptoZoo developer Coffeezilla spoke with corroborated the declare, saying he additionally hadn\u2019t been paid in any respect. Not solely have been Paul\u2019s followers discovering holes of their wallets after investing in CryptoZoo, however it seems that the folks engaged on the venture weren\u2019t even being paid adequately or on time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><em>Kotaku<\/em> reached out to Findeisen and Paul for remark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Paul, for his half, <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 eRdxJX js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoganPaul\/status\/1606465681830166529&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoganPaul\/status\/1606465681830166529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has said that<\/a><\/span> the report is \u201cmerely not true\u201d and that, \u201cwhen applicable, all dangerous actors can be uncovered, defined, &amp; held absolutely accountable,\u201d promising extra particulars in his January 3 podcast. On December 26, Paul <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 eRdxJX js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoganPaul\/status\/1607512827555713024&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoganPaul\/status\/1607512827555713024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly invited Coffeezilla<\/a><\/span> to seem on the <em>Impaulsive<\/em> podcast to hash the whole lot out, although Coffeezilla responded by saying that <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 eRdxJX js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/coffeebreak_YT\/status\/1607546692609642497&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coffeebreak_YT\/status\/1607546692609642497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he\u2019d already invited Paul onto his show<\/a><\/span> the day earlier than. It stays to be seen whether or not or not something will come to fruition from these exchanges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/logan-paul-cryptozoo-blockchain-scam-youtube-nft-crypto-1849935953\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] YouTuber and web persona Logan Paul has discovered himself with a large goal on his brow not too long ago. Paul, who\u2019s been on one thing of a redemption arc these previous few years following the \u201csuicide forest\u201d fiasco in December 2017, is again in scorching water after crypto investigator Stephen \u201cCoffeezilla\u201d Findeisen revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1507,418,47,5207,4289,5208,1513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions\/8887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}