I didn't buy in.
I'm just trying to understand how it works.
I think I understand how it works, but I'd prefer to hear it from someone else's point of view.
The company that is generating these heists all over the place is also involved in some other schemes.
One, is "Pyramid City", where they advertised they were buying land and building pyramid mausoleums on it. They collected tons of money but never did anything else.
And, they seem to be paying journalists to promote their nonsense.
Where it gets interesting is their CCP ties via a Chinese national in Singapore. They seem to be doing their coding at his behest, where he is in charge of marketing tons of other scams.
https://twitter.com/Teefinha97
He has tons of bot marketing that is ongoing.
Mainly, I'm trying to determine how far the rabbit hole goes.
But, it is refreshing to hear other points of view to understand it from a new perspective.
Well in general the scams go something like: 1. Get a bunch of suckers to buy the tokens, through "marketing" 2. Siphon off all the money via liquidity 3. Token value goes down 99% 4. Profit
For anyone who bought it, write it off as a complete loss. There is nothing you can do, sucker.
- Siphon off all the money via liquidity
Can you explain this step?
A rug pull – AKA a “hard rug” – is a malicious manoeuvre where the developers of a project drain their liquidity pools in order to take profits at the expense of the investors. Investors will usually be left with a worthless token or even completely empty-handed if they were farming a non-native token pool that was drained.
Soft rugs are harder to identify than a regular rug pull. They often happen after a solid form of trust has been built between the developers and the investors: liquidity pools have a timelock or the developers send their LP tokens to a burn address. Typically, the developers have a large amount of tokens in different wallets that they can sell for a profit after the price increases, resulting in major losses for investors.
Rug pulls are not to be confused with exploits (where an external entity takes advantage of a loophole to steal value from a project) and failfarms or failtokens (where a project simply fails to gain or retain value for non-malicious reasons).
(post is archived)