Hey guys,
Am I the only one reading that stuff and thinking that even if the smart contract is working alright, there is always a way to rig the game?
https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-the-winner-got-fomo3d-prize-a-detailed-explanation-b30a69b7813f Maybe somebody more technical can explain it simpler, but the way I see it, the winner basically was constantly checking who holds the key and when the round is ending, then once he was the one that got the last key, he prevented any other transactions from coming in by jacking up the gas, so miners would work on his blocks first and nobody else's transaction can reach the game, before the round has ended.
He probably tried this multiple times in a row in the past and only this time he was successful, so it also means that should be somebody that has enough dough to spend, in order to support an operation like this.
At the end of the day, the jackpot wasn't won just out of sheer luck and the system was "gamed" with chances of success inflated much higher. In cases like this, a traditional online Casino would probably withhold the payout and probably add the bulk of the funds to the next jackpot, but here not much can be done I guess. Don't get me wrong, you gotta love the hustle, it's just s*it when other players think they got a fair chance.
What do you guys think?
P.S: just a real-world betting comparison:
If this was a basketball game, the actions of the guy would be equivalent to betting on an exact result (say 90:88) in all current round games at ridiculously high odds, then once a game eventually gets to that score, switching off everybody's internet and bribing the ref to not allow any more points to be scored Smiley
