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Blockverse devs deny the project is a scam, instead claiming they vanished because of harassment
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An NFT project sells a ton of tokens, making a shit ton of cash in the process for a thing that probably will exist in the future. Then the project and folks involved disappear with the money, leaving those who bought into it screwed. Well, it’s reportedly happened again, this time with Blockverse, an NFT project connected (unofficially) to Minecraft.
As reported by PCGamer, Blockverse launched last week and is claimed to be an “on-chain Ethereum NFT that enables a unique P2E on Minecraft” which basically boils down to a private Minecraft server that is only open to folks with a Blockverse NFT. Even though selling access to servers is a thing that has been done for years without NFTs, there was still a lot of “hype” around the project. And on January 23, Blockverse launched and sold around 10,000 NFTs—selling out in less than 10 minutes while earning an estimated $1.2 million. However, a few days after allegedly making all that money the creators behind the project deleted Blockverse’s website, game server, and official Discord.
A statement from the Blockverse Team
— Blockverse (@Blockverse_NFT) January 28, 2022
Read: https://t.co/5v5nn5bqrK
As you might expect, this led to a lot of people calling the whole thing a scam and demanding answers. After a few days of silence from the creators, and as those in the community tracked down information about the project leads, Blockverse headed to Twitter and provided an update on the situation, with the devs sharing an explanation and apology.
Read the full article on Kotaku
