YouTuber turned crypto developer Logan Paul stated he intends to answer Coffeezilla on Jan. 2 over allegations the CryptoZoo challenge is a rip-off.
Paul included a screengrab of a message despatched to Coffeezilla, aka Stephen Findeisen, inviting him onto the Impaulsive YouTube channel to debate the matter. Nonetheless, in line with Paul, Findeisen didn’t e mail him again to simply accept the invite.
“I despatched this message to CoffeeZilla 5 days in the past. I haven’t heard again, so I’ll be releasing a response to his rip-off allegations tomorrow on my YouTube channel.”
What’s CryptoZoo?
CryptoZoo is a Binance Sensible Chain (BSC) Play-2-Earn (P2E) NFT challenge that borrows from parts of Pokemon, with customers gathering, buying and selling, and breeding animals to earn $ZOO tokens.
The non-fungibles can be found on OpenSea as unhatched eggs, presumably with a shock reveal for homeowners occurring as soon as the challenge advances, if in any respect.
The established worth flooring is presently at 0.285 ETH, which equates to roughly $340 at at this time’s worth. It was famous pricing was not in BSC’s native BNB token, nevertheless, wrapped ETH is on the market on the chain.
In his personal phrases, Paul stated CryptoZoo is a “actually enjoyable recreation that makes you cash.”
Throughout the summer season of 2021, Paul was additionally embroiled in controversy over the Dink Doink meme token. Critics alleged the challenge was a pump-and-dump scheme. The newest buying and selling quantity exercise occurred on Dec. 17, 2022, for lower than $14, in line with CoinGecko.
Having hit an all-time excessive of $0.000000001331 on June 30, 2021, DINK is presently buying and selling for $0.000000000014010 – a 99% drawdown from its peak.
Coffeezilla investigates
Thus far, Findeisen has posted three movies detailing his investigations into CryptoZoo.
They coated a deep dive into the challenge, together with background investigations into key gamers, resembling Jake the Crypto King, whose Twitter account was lately suspended, and testimonies from traders calling out the dearth of progress in releasing a completed product.
Findeisen stated Paul didn’t pay builders, resulting in a pause in improvement exercise. Additional, the Lead Developer, Eddie Ibanez, is alleged to have lied about his credentials, which embody graduating from MIT, having labored for the CIA to catch criminals, and serving to the Philadelphia Eagles win the Tremendous Bowl in his capability as a Information Scientist crunching fatigue and damage stats.
Responding to the invite on Dec. 27, 2022, Findeisen stated Paul didn’t embody an e mail handle to verify his attendance. Nonetheless, he would fortunately talk about the difficulty on house floor or through stay stream.
“Logan “invited me on his present” however didn’t embody the e-mail 24 hrs earlier than this the place I invited him first onto my present, together with Eddie, CryptoKing, and Jeff.
Im pleased to fly Logan down or livestream it however I’m not flying to his CryptoZoo tax haven on new years lol”
A discover on the CryptoZoo web site acknowledged customers ought to count on downtime as upgrades are being labored on and “core infrastructure is being revamped.”
