/biz/ - Business & Finance

I've been spending the last few days researching everything I could about 0xGamble (1UCK) and I found a lot of interesting stuff hidden in the code, as well as in the dev's OG post and his on chain activity.

I will try to be as clear as I can, but if things get confusing sometimes it's just me not organizing my ideas properly.

First, let's address the elephant in the room: bug or no bug?

A few days ago there was a whole discussion about a potential bug in the code of the smart contract.
Fellow anons started digging and it was confirmed that there really was an "unforeseen" interaction in the case of wining the pot by buying the token.
In short, winning the pot by buying does not award the pot to the user. In stead it gets sent to the PancakeSwap liquidity contract, where it remains inaccessible forever, kind of like a secondary burn.
Selling and transferring 1uck works as advertised, and can still win you the pot.
This has been demonstrated with on chain data and can no longer be disputed.
But, since it's not sent to the dev or something like this, and the tokens just get taken out of circulation, the community seems to have accepted it as a harmless 'oopsie' and moved on.
But something kept bugged me, so I dug a little deeper.
The dev did a really good job with the rest of the code. Could he have missed such a simple bug?
Maybe... but there is another possibility: that it was done intentionally.
This also raises the question why, but we'll look at that later on.