{"content":"14 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗽 $BMT 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲  -  Alright, let's dive into Day 6. Airdrops are one of the most powerful forces in crypto. They were born from a noble idea: reward the earliest users, decentralize governance, and bootstrap a genuine community from day one. But as with anything of value, where there's free money, there will always be hunters. This gave rise to the industrialization of airdrop farming and a tactic known as the Sybil attack. ❍ The Sybil Attack: One Person, Many Masks A Sybil attack is simple in concept. One person creates hundreds, sometimes thousands, of fake identities (in our case, crypto wallets) to game a system. The goal is to make a project think it has 1,000 unique users when it really only has one. That single user then claims 1,000 shares of the airdrop reward, leaving less for the real community members. On a standard block explorer, these 1,000 wallets look completely separate. But they all share a fatal flaw: they need to be funded. To pay for gas fees, the farmer has to send a little bit of crypto (like ETH or SOL) to each of their wallets. And that leaves a trail. ❍ Making the Invisible Funding, Visible This is where Bubblemaps becomes an essential tool for projects and researchers. It takes that hidden funding trail and makes it glaringly obvious. Here’s the pattern it reveals: 🔸The Central Hub: You'll spot a single wallet (or a small, tight cluster) that has sent transactions to a massive number of other, smaller wallets. This is the farmer's "mother wallet." 🔸The Starburst Pattern: The resulting visual looks like a spider or a starburst. A central point with dozens or hundreds of lines radiating outwards to a cloud of tiny bubbles. 🔸Coordinated Timing: Often, if you check the transactions, you'll see this funding happened in a very short, concentrated period. The farmer was setting up their army all at once. @bubblemaps $BMT #Bubblemaps ","images":["https://d2kdcqywr8ua22.cloudfront.net/uploadfile/article/blog/2025082025/08/24/84e5388b92e6588436c0e5569086588b.png"],"tags":[],"tradingPairs":["SOL/USDT"],"quotearticleid":0}