#比特币突破8.5万美元
Many people see this and think, “The social platform is suing again.” But what’s truly worth watching in this news isn’t the lawsuit.
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Last week, on X, two account operators were sued at the High Court in London.. The complaint says they used an entire bot matrix to divide up the platform’s own creators into pools and drained them for at least £207,000, roughly $278,000.
The details are spelled out plainly.. Six accounts plus at least three booster accounts sent out nearly identical Bitcoin content within seconds, liking and replying to each other to hard-cultivate a group of accounts that look “very popular.” The entry barriers are only three: subscription, five million impressions in three months, and 500 certified followers.
It sounds like a squabble in the content world.. But if you treat it as just online noise, you miss the most interesting part.
Creators are paid based on engagement.. The more likes, replies, and shares, the more ad revenue they get.
The problem is right here.. As long as the payout standard is a string of numbers that can be forged, arbitrage will inevitably show up—and it will be automated.. Humans need to rest; bots don’t.
Even more interesting is the timeline.. These nine accounts were banned as early as August 18, but the revenue-sharing program was shut down on September 7 and replaced with a new mechanism that explicitly excludes “artificially generated engagement.”
That’s when things start to look different.. The platform changed the rules only after it was already breached—not something designed in advance.
At this point, you should feel a sense of familiarity.. The on-chain airdrop was “pierced” by a witch farm; afterwards, the project team patched rules, raised thresholds, and added tasks—it's exactly the same script.. Whoever has more accounts and whoever has lower costs can turn “payouts based on metrics” subsidies into a risk-free income machine.
So what’s really worth watching isn’t who wins the lawsuit, but what the payout mechanism looks like.. As long as the subsidy is paid according to measurable engagement, the bots’ return rate will always be higher than that of real people.
At its core, this is the platform pricing “attention.” As long as there is a price gap, someone will come in specifically to eat that gap—finding arbitrage between different markets for money is the same thing.
If this logic continues.. the next thing to be breached won’t be that platform’s revenue pool, but anywhere that pays out according to metrics.. In the race between rules and arbitrage, the rules always start a half-step behind.
But on the flip side.. every time a breach happens, it forces the rules to move forward by one step.. That’s probably the only kind of evolution these subsidy mechanisms have.
Many people see this and think, “The social platform is suing again.” But what’s truly worth watching in this news isn’t the lawsuit.
👉 加入聊天室
Last week, on X, two account operators were sued at the High Court in London.. The complaint says they used an entire bot matrix to divide up the platform’s own creators into pools and drained them for at least £207,000, roughly $278,000.
The details are spelled out plainly.. Six accounts plus at least three booster accounts sent out nearly identical Bitcoin content within seconds, liking and replying to each other to hard-cultivate a group of accounts that look “very popular.” The entry barriers are only three: subscription, five million impressions in three months, and 500 certified followers.
It sounds like a squabble in the content world.. But if you treat it as just online noise, you miss the most interesting part.
Creators are paid based on engagement.. The more likes, replies, and shares, the more ad revenue they get.
The problem is right here.. As long as the payout standard is a string of numbers that can be forged, arbitrage will inevitably show up—and it will be automated.. Humans need to rest; bots don’t.
Even more interesting is the timeline.. These nine accounts were banned as early as August 18, but the revenue-sharing program was shut down on September 7 and replaced with a new mechanism that explicitly excludes “artificially generated engagement.”
That’s when things start to look different.. The platform changed the rules only after it was already breached—not something designed in advance.
At this point, you should feel a sense of familiarity.. The on-chain airdrop was “pierced” by a witch farm; afterwards, the project team patched rules, raised thresholds, and added tasks—it's exactly the same script.. Whoever has more accounts and whoever has lower costs can turn “payouts based on metrics” subsidies into a risk-free income machine.
So what’s really worth watching isn’t who wins the lawsuit, but what the payout mechanism looks like.. As long as the subsidy is paid according to measurable engagement, the bots’ return rate will always be higher than that of real people.
At its core, this is the platform pricing “attention.” As long as there is a price gap, someone will come in specifically to eat that gap—finding arbitrage between different markets for money is the same thing.
If this logic continues.. the next thing to be breached won’t be that platform’s revenue pool, but anywhere that pays out according to metrics.. In the race between rules and arbitrage, the rules always start a half-step behind.
But on the flip side.. every time a breach happens, it forces the rules to move forward by one step.. That’s probably the only kind of evolution these subsidy mechanisms have.