1/ Sometimes there are brilliant individuals out there who really take the time and effort to check connections between wallets and projects. Already 2 months ago, someone created the below chart and dropped it in the Ancient Cats Club Discord after it was rugged.
2/ We were alerted by other individuals that provided us with an extensive Excel spreadsheet with 24 tabs full of wallet transactions that had an overlap with the other information. Thank you @tylengyel, @rugpullfinder & others for your work on this. We verified the data provided
3/ And we found indeed the exact same wallet connections with even more projects. It confirms the suspicion that there are various scam rings that churn out project and project as we already mentioned before.
4/ The reason for sending this out now, is that tomorrow Bored Mutant Bunny is minting, created by the same group. We want to warn people not to mint that project.
5/ The project has blocked and booted every person that knows what’s going on from their Discord, including @tylengyel, the most active member who owns the trademark to Bored Bunny. The project didn't respond to his C&D letter.
6/ As a quick summary: Bored Bunny, Bored Bad Bunny, Ancient Cats Club, Crazy Camels, Party Ape Billionaire Club, Meta Legends, MetaBillionairs, Arab Meta, The MetaStars, Doge Army, BabyElonWorld, and many more are all connected. Don't mint Bored Mutant Bunny tomorrow!
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1/ An interesting story on Squiggles and how one of the largest German social media influencers (>8 million followers across all platforms) was involved. He just "apologized" for promoting this scam by three voice tweets. Writing it would probably do more reputational damage.
2/ The person in question is MontanaBlack with 1.1M Twitter followers. He basically says he didn't know it was a scam, and couldn't believe it was because it was so "hyped". He was happy that others pointed out it was a scam before everything sold out. And DYOR of course!
3/ In the meantime he deleted all his tweets with references to Squiggles and also changed the names of his OpenSea accounts. This is a person with a very dubious past, who last month advertised an NFT project that included a Swastika.
1/ A quick reflection on what happened in the past days/weeks. It started with us mentioning the scam ring responsible for Squiggles. We wanted to release that information, but our account got suspended after one of the people involved paid someone to take our account down.
2/ How does that work? A verified Twitter account changes its handle to “NFT Ethics” and then reports to Twitter that our account impersonated them. Because probably 95% of these cases are legit, Twitter automatically suspends the non-verified account.
3/ We can understand the logic behind it, and also we are fallible to the same “flaw”. When we report something, we might be 95% “right” but there could be collateral damage. You can’t check each & every detail (certainly not with NFTs) and these details can also change over time
1/ We have a couple of questions for @moonpay/@isotowright, and its concierge service that a lot of celebrities already seem to have used to purchase some high value NFTs. We created a non-exhaustive list of these celebrities below.
2/ The CEO of MoonPay, @isotowright, gave an interview with @TheBlock__, but some of the questions were not (properly) answered, so we would like to ask these questions again. The article can be found here (and we will refer to it in the tweets below): theblockcrypto.com/post/128517/mo…
3/ Is there a commercial relationship between MoonPay and the clients that use the MoonPay concierge service? Are they paid in any way or required to promote MoonPay when using this service?
1/ In this thread we will disclose the identity of one of the (currently) most (in)famous NFT influencers. But before we do that, we first explain our (philosophical) justifications and provide some important disclaimers.
2/ In real life, certain identifying data (name, (tax) ID, bank accounts, …) can be compared to blockchain addresses. Based on (combinations of) that data everyone is able to trace our historical actions and it allows scrutiny over our personal and professional lives.
3/ Decentralization has various advantages, but also specific disadvantages for which the NFT space currently does not have a solution. Anonymous people have less of an incentive (or even no incentive at all) to act morally/ethically and to take accountability for their actions.