The move comes on the back of a live stream between Ver and HEX founder Richard Heart. As expected, Heart wasted no time in bashing bitcoin using the same tired old arguments about lack of adoption and mining dominance.

HEX, for the uninitiated, is Heart’s project which describes itself as a blockchain certificate of deposit (CD). This term has already been refuted by legal experts as misleading since deposits in Ethereum made to buy the tokens are not returned in ETH.

It has been described by many as a colossal pyramid scheme orchestrated to enrich the owner. The bonus and referral schemes seem to have been articulated to obfuscate the premise that the entire platform will result in one wallet address owning almost half the supply after a year.

The ‘origin address’ is controlled by Heart himself who has been accumulating ETH from buyers while offloading worthless HEX tokens onto them with the promise of epic returns from staking them.

There are also a number of penalties for not staking or prematurely ending the contract with 50% of those penalty fees also going into this ‘origin address’.

Reports have claimed that Heart will likely make over $100 million in ETH and control 45% of all HEX after the first year. At the time of writing there is already over 40k ETH in the origin address according to this crypto analyst