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Original 'Flappy Bird' Creator Disavows New Version - and Its Possible Crypto Ties

Flappy Bird's original creator hasn't posted anything on social media since 2017. Until today. "This morning, the game's creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically terse comment stating that he has nothing to do with the revival," report TechCrunch, "and that he 'did not sell anything.' He ...

"This morning, the game's creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically terse comment stating that he has nothing to do with the revival," report TechCrunch, "and that he 'did not sell anything.' As this was going on, the U.S. patent office granted a trademark registration for Flappy Bird in 2018 (for years after the game was removed from sale) to another Delaware company called Mobile Media Matters. While I can't be exact on the link between Mobile Media Matters and Gametech, both companies' legal filings give the same Delaware address.

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