NFT project founder DNP3 admits to gambling away user funds
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The founding father of Goobers NFT, who goes by the identify DNP3, blamed a playing dependancy for why he gambled and misplaced consumer funds.
“During the last 12 months I acquired extremely hooked on playing,” he wrote. “Each greenback I may discover I might put into Stake in hopes of profitable massive. Even when the large wins did occur it wasn’t sufficient. Finally I misplaced every part. Along with my very own life financial savings, I additionally irresponsibly used investor funds to try to ‘get my a refund’ from the on line casino, which was mistaken for therefore many causes.”
He added on Twitter that it “began with a sponsored stream and unleashed an dependancy I by no means knew I had.”
DNP3 is the founding father of the NFT venture Goobers, which launched in September 2021 and amassed a 968 ETH whole buying and selling quantity. At its peak, the venture’s flooring value was 55.25 ETH on Feb. 20, 2022 earlier than falling to 0.02 ETH on Jan 3.
DNP3 didn’t reply to The Block’s request to make clear the sum of money used for playing. Nonetheless, The Block Analysis estimated that hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of funds had been gambled.
DNP3 can also be the founding father of Gridcraft Community, a play-to-earn web3 recreation, and the charity-focused cryptocurrency CluCoin. As well as, he streams on the reside streaming platform Twitch to greater than 251,000 followers.
