Around 800 ETH has been withdrawn from an address associated with the HEX cryptocurrency, leading many to suspect it was the beginning of an exit scam.
While there are more than 46,000 ETH left to withdraw, all of the funds are held in a single address that Richard Heart, the founder of HEX, says is controlled by an "Anonymous" person.
Suspicions rise as $100,000 worth of ETH withdrawn from HEX account.
Heart's outlandish claims, including one that HEX is "Designed to increase in value faster than anything else in history," managed to attract a lot of attention, receiving over 33,000 ETH in donations.
Now, around $100,000 worth of ETH was moved from that address and transferred to crypto exchanges, leading many to suspect that it was the beginning of an exit scam.
According to the analysts, the way HEX was created gives Heart ownership of almost half of the tokens through something called the "Origin Address," which receives a copy of all bonus payments in the protocol.
Data from Etherscan.io has shown that 797 ETH was withdrawn from the origin address and addresses associated with it.
Throughout the week, 500, 75, and 27 more ETH were withdrawn from the same address.
According to several Reddit users, the 500 ETH that was withdrawn on Dec. 23 immediately went into a Bitfinex address to be liquidated.
The same address now holds $6.25 worth of ETH. And while there's around 46,000 more ETH left on the origin address, it's still unknown who controls it.
Is this the beginning of the HEX exit? 800 ETH withdrawn and sent to Bitfinex
Published on Dec 27, 2019
by Cryptoslate | Published on Coinage
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