Connor Sephton is a journalist based in London, who also works for Sky News and the BBC as a radio newsreader and online reporter. He has covered crypto since 2018 — reporting from major conferences...
For months, tired gamers tapped furiously on a screen — all with the goal of building a hamster-run crypto exchange and earning some tokens along the way.
Well… at least some of them did.
Among them were a few players who fancied cutting corners — letting automated bots complete missions and rake in coins on their behalf.
But now the long-awaited airdrop for Hamster Kombat has finally arrived, those with idle thumbs have finally got their comeuppance.
After gleefully waiting to see how many points they would receive, dodgy degens were shocked when they opened up their Telegram mini-app to see their balance was nil.
Instead, all they had to show for their deception was a sticker that said: “Cheating is bad.”
Estimates have previously suggested that Hamster Kombat has amassed 300 million users — and according to the tap-to-earn sensation, 2.3 million of them were cheaters.
“Enough to fill the entire city of Rome!” the project gleefully added on X.
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