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giancarlostoro on July 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

I always wondered about this, so how do projects like CryptoKitties profit? Or do they give themselves the seed cryptocollectibles and profit off of those?

somebodythere on July 3, 2019 [–]

> give themselves the seed cryptocollectibles and profit off of those

In CryptoKitties' case specifically, yes. Some developers bake a fee directly into the smart contract.

giancarlostoro on July 4, 2019 | [–]

So they coded the fee system to go to their own address and not just the systems hosting correct?

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