Ponzi / Pyramid Contracts

One of Ethereum's earliest pyramid-style chain letter contracts, deployed 9 days after genesis. Required 10 ETH per entry and distributed payouts to earlier par

A 102 percent pay-forward queue from 8 August 2015 that reverts on every deposit, appending to an array it never lengthens.

An early 100 ETH tree-payout chain letter (MyScheme) deployed on Frontier, Aug 9 2015; still holds 1 ETH.

A 100-ETH chain-letter investment contract deployed August 9, 2015, part of an early family of Frontier-era financial experiment contracts with variants accepti

Member-added pyramid/chain list with equal-share claim distribution.

Classic 3:1 pyramid scheme with Bitcoin bridge integration, deployed September 7, 2015. 1 ETH to enter, 2.7 ETH payout every 3rd participant. Originally hosted

Doubler drain contract with hardcoded owner

A pyramid scheme promising 2x returns to ETH participants. 28 ETH remains locked — those who entered last will never be paid out.

Self-adjusting pyramid scheme with declining multipliers (3x to 1.5x), deployed February 23, 2016. 140 participants entered, 136 still waiting for payout. Sourc