Dead
The empty ten-minute block already happened. Nobody is buying. The hooked one is known.
Settled
Someone poked or bought. The books are closed. Claim will pay.
How it works
You pay ETH on Get Hooked. You get miners. Hit min and you're the hooked one. Later buys land ETH on miners you already hold — withdraw whenever. If ten minutes go by and nobody hits min, the round dies. After someone closes the books, the hooked one can take the pot. Forty percent of every buy leaves and mines $HBTC. You don't get that coin.
Numbers are on Parameters. Addresses are on Verify.
What you do
Pay ETH. You get miners. You can't sell them, send them, or list them. When the round dies, those miners die with it. The next miner costs more as more get taken, so the same ETH later buys fewer miners.
You can hold a fraction. The site shows four decimals. One miner starts at 0.0001 ETH. There is no cap and no exit market.
You take L1 ETH only: on miners anytime, and the pot if you're the hooked one after it settles. You do not get $HBTC.
Where your ETH goes
Same cut every time. Hooked is the 40% slice. The hooked one is a person.
The hooked one20%
On miners20%
Next round20%
Hooked40%
First buy of a round: nobody holds miners yet, so that On miners 20% goes into the pot.
Say you open with 0.002 ETH
Min starts at 0.002 ETH. That is not the price of one miner. At the open, 0.002 ETH buys about twenty miners.
| Amount | |
|---|---|
| Miners | about 20 |
| The pot | 0.0008 ETH — the hooked one's 20%, plus the On miners 20% (first buy) |
| On miners | none yet |
| Next round | 0.0004 ETH |
| Hooked | 0.0008 ETH leaves |
That's 40 / 40 / 20 / 0. Someone buys after you. Their ETH splits 20 / 20 / 20 / 40. The On miners 20% goes to people who already had miners — including you. Then they get their new miners.
On miners and the pot are not a return.
Hit min and you're the hooked one
Send any amount and you still get miners. Only a buy at or over min makes you the hooked one.
You're the hooked one right now. If the next ten minutes pass and nobody hits min, the round dies — and you can take the pot, after the books close. If someone hits min, they're the hooked one.
Under min you still get miners, and you still get on miners if people buy after you. You're not the hooked one. You can't take the pot. Your pot slice still goes into the pot for whoever is the hooked one.
Min starts at 0.002 ETH. Live min is on Get Hooked. How it rises is below.
No countdown
The round does not end at a set time. You don't get a last block to camp.
If a whole ten-minute block goes by with nobody over min, the round dies. You can't call this block last while it's still open. Last is only after the next one comes up empty.
Min goes up with time, not volume
Min starts at 0.002 ETH. It climbs to 0.02 ETH over the first 144 blocks (Climb), sits (Flat), then doubles every 72 blocks (Double). Buying a lot does not make min rise faster. A later buy at or over the new min becomes the hooked one.
| Age | 1 day | 3 days | 4 days | 5 days | 6 days | 7 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.32 | 1.28 | 5.12 ETH |
The formula is on Parameters.
What you can take
On miners is later ETH. When someone buys after you, 20% of their ETH goes to people who already had miners — including you. The miners they just bought don't get that cut. Withdraw it on Get Hooked whenever. It never expires.
The pot is the hooked one's 20%, plus that first-buy On miners slice, plus whatever has dripped in from the last round. The hooked one takes 100% of it. Nobody promised it's bigger than what they spent.
Dead is not the same as settled.
Claim the pot on Claim. Try before it settles and the contract says no. Anyone can press Poke · no buy to close the books without buying. A poke never opens the next round.
The next round
Twenty percent waits for the next round. After this one dies, nothing starts itself. A poke only closes the books. A buy of at least 0.002 ETH closes the books and opens the next round. There's no owner to hit start.
The last round's Next-round 20% drips into this pot over the first 144 blocks. It doesn't all land on the first buy. If this round dies during the drip, the rest goes to the next one.
The 40% — the machine
Forty percent of every buy leaves Ethereum and mines $HBTC. That coin stays with the protocol. You don't take it. You cannot withdraw hooked ether to L1. It can be late. It doesn't disappear. Nobody promised 24 hours.
The 40% waits in a bank on Ethereum until there's at least 0.05 ETH and fees stay under 2%. A buy already tries to send it. Anyone can poke on Machine when it's quiet. If nobody sends it, it waits. It doesn't leak. There is no admin.
That's the machine. The game lives on Ethereum. The mine lives on Robinhood. Addresses are on Verify.
What nobody can change
- No owner, no admin keys, no pause, no upgrade.
- Nobody can change the other protocol that mints
$HBTC. - Miners never become a token you can sell.
- Nobody promised hooked ether in 24 hours.
- You cannot pull that ether back to Ethereum in one shot.
- A poke cannot start the next round. Opening is a buy of at least 0.002 ETH.
- The pot does not pay before it settles.
Nobody promised you get more ETH out than you put in. Confirm the game address on Verify. Don't send ETH to a person.
No owner. No admin keys. One hook mints Bitcoin. This machine feeds it.