Centra Token Sale

in #centra7 years ago (edited)

Tonight at 12:00 am EST September 19, 2017 the Centra Token sale launched with some confusion and great interest.

The event was very well promoted with even Floyd Mayweather himself joining the fold via Twitter.
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However the the main https://www.centra.tech/ website was getting an error soon after launch:
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It appears that the Token Sale address listed on the website was not the correct one, and some people sent ETH there before the site went down. See Twitter reaction below:

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If we compare both addresses, we can see that the incorrect one stopped receiving funds about 30 minutes or so into the sale. Unfortunately it appears that almost 70 ETH was sent here.

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Meanwhile the correct Centra Token address was receiving much activity. Some transactions were showing rejection errors. I particularly noticed many transactions in the specific amount of 0.1 ETH failing, but amounts slightly higher went through...perhaps there was a minimum amount that was not previously known?

As of 1:20 AM, it appears the contract received about 7000 ETH in 745 transactions:
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Time will tell on how the new token will be received. From what I understand the token will provide a service like Monaco and TenX allowing for crypto currency to be used at merchant locations and ATMs via the traditional payment card networks. Hopefully anyone who lost funds to the incorrect address can have some recourse (and hopefully this is an error vs. a malicious hack).

https://etherscan.io/token/Centra
Central Sale Address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xbdb45d02d8ef8dc5e59aa58b26b99a4af3806baa
Confusion Causing incorrect address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xBdB470934D6b7439527B936adf87Fdf771364e1A