King of the Ether Throne · interactive mechanism simulation

Each claim pushes payment to the previous monarch via send(). If the recipient is a contract wallet needing more than the 2300-gas stipend, the send silently fails — and the ETH gets stuck, exactly as it did on 8 February 2016.
Challenger pays claim price Throne / curse timer price: 0.50 ETH Current monarch no one yet Previous monarch send() compensation Wizard 0.0 ETH fees ⚠ Stuck ETH (contract wallets) 0.0 ETH stuck
Total claims
0
Current claim price
0.50 ETH
Curse timer
0%
ETH stuck (failed sends)
0.0 ETH
Parameters — edit me
33%
2%
15%
0.9/s
Controls

Illustrative simulation. Defaults mirror KotET's documented v1.0 rules (0.5 ETH starting price, 33% escalation, 2% commission, 14-day curse) but claim timing, wallet types, and the curse window are compressed and randomized for visualization — not live onchain data. Raise "contract-wallet chance" or click "Trigger the failure mode" to reproduce the February 2016 incident where 98.5 ETH got stuck behind an unchecked send(). Part of The Onchain Experiment Atlas.