Flappy Bird at one point was reportedly bringing in tens of thousands of dollars in ad revenue per day. By February 2014, however, Nguyen had completely removed the game from all mobile app stores.

the Flappy Bird folks say players will "have the option to use Web3 features," but also promises that "the game will never have NFTs." "Web3" is sort of a catch-all term for an envisioned future ...

"No, I have no related with their game" he said, adding "I did not sell anything," TechCrunch reports. Turns out, this "re-hatched" Flappy Bird really has nothing at all to do with the original ...

Instead, it required a sort of tapping precision not seen in another game before or since. One might argue that many hate-played it in a desperate attempt to beat the Flappy Bird system.

Flappy Bird, the latest iPhone craze, launched less than one year ago. At its peak, it was generating about $50,000 per day. It was run by one man, Dong Nguyen, an indie game developer in Vietnam.