A new celebrity coin model is coming!
This morning, a bunch of people opened X Money and suddenly found a few thousand or tens of thousands of dollars in their accounts. The transaction details are all the same line of text: Creator fees via
It’s neither a system bug nor someone just handing out money. When people issue meme coins, they permanently direct the creator’s fee to a specific X account. Once the coin is traded, about 80% goes straight into the other party’s X Money, and the recipient doesn’t need to register or authorize anything—and might not even know about it at all. After a week, about $1.08 million has gone into 553 accounts. Some have received a few hundred, others tens of thousands, and the largest single payment was nearly $80,000 sent to Musk. Looks like $paid is going to become the new version of the god.
This morning, a bunch of people opened X Money and suddenly found a few thousand or tens of thousands of dollars in their accounts. The transaction details are all the same line of text: Creator fees via
It’s neither a system bug nor someone just handing out money. When people issue meme coins, they permanently direct the creator’s fee to a specific X account. Once the coin is traded, about 80% goes straight into the other party’s X Money, and the recipient doesn’t need to register or authorize anything—and might not even know about it at all. After a week, about $1.08 million has gone into 553 accounts. Some have received a few hundred, others tens of thousands, and the largest single payment was nearly $80,000 sent to Musk. Looks like $paid is going to become the new version of the god.
