Inconspicuous agitating in the background there is an account working as collecting point for referrals to bittrex.
An account which gets supplied with money by altogether 8,173 bots and transferring the profit to bittrex.
Without posts, votes, comments or resteems that it is not possible to flag him.
Today I want to dedicate myself the account @dart who has profited with more than 35,000 $ from over 8,000 bots in two months.
Let us start with the basics.
The over 8,000 bots post sometimes randomly picked videos from YouTube.
The title of the video constitute the title of the post and the post text.
I could not recognize a method behind choosing the videos, so I think they are, as written, randomly picked.
For the fact that they are bots are different aspects like always nearly the same way of generating posts and the number of upvotes on each post.
These upvotes were always done of some of the bots. Of course this happened with each post.
Of these account there were referrals to @dart up to yesterday with a value of 1,112.893 SBD and 3,394.736 STEEM Power. Calculated with the actual charts these are a bit more than 35,000 $.
It is going to be more mysterious if we look at the money transfers from bittrex to @dart.
Like this there was often transferred money and then completely or in parts payed back.
These transfers didn’t have an affect on the income, it just varied the money in the wallet of @dart.
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This is point 17.1.1 of the Terms of Services of Steemit and something the tactic of @dart is propably offending against. But I do not want to decide this by myself but in my opinion it seems not legal.
Again this case is showing the dark sides of Steemit focusing money not fun and quality.
I just find this kind of making money just disgusting but I would be glad about your opinion.
Thanks to @balte through whom I noticed this system.
A big Thank you to @jedigeiss who supported me with a tool to get all names of the bots.
Also thanks to @gexi who distracted me from work and entertained me.
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8,173 Bots von @dart | Alle Namen / 8,173 Bots of @dart | All names Part 1/3
8,173 Bots von @dart | Alle Namen / 8,173 Bots of @dart | All names Part 2/3
8,173 Bots von @dart | Alle Namen / 8,173 Bots of @dart | All names Part 3/3