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ckret2 · 6 months ago

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How do you (personally) rank the validity of different canon sources?

Ex. Show, Books, Livestreams, Panels, Deleted Scenes ect.

Disclaimer ahead of time that this is solely for my own personal canon-compliant fic writing purposes and I don't expect anyone else to follow this or even think they're obligated to write canon compliantly

Tier one: the show is more canon than the books, but only 1% more canon. In defiance of Alex's decree, I do treat Little Gift Shop of Horrors as canon.

Tier two: everything in the books (plus the books' tie-in websites, like Shmeb-You-Unlocked or TINAWDC) is canon UNLESS it's contradicted in the show. If there's a contradiction, usually the show wins, but it has to be decided on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes contradicting book info take precedence over show info if the book's info is better. The best outcome is when the info can be smoothly synthesized. (Note that having to weigh a book against the show only applies to CONTRADICTIONS; if the book just ADDS ONTO our knowledge of the show in a way that doesn't actually contradict it, it's automatically canon.)

Also in defiance of Alex, I consider Time Pirates' Treasure wholly canon, with the "official" timeline being one of the ones where they get the treasure and all of the other choose-your-own-adventure branches being things that happened in neighboring parallel timelines.

Out of the books, Journal 3, TBOB (+TINAWDC), and Lost Legends (+Shmeb-You-Unlocked) are the most canon. TBOB takes precedence over Journal 3 on matters where TBOB's lore is clearly intended as an upgrade on prior ideas (ex: the shaman's portal and the pyramids). Dipper & Mabel's Guide, Time Pirates' Treasure (+ the Axolotl page), and Don't Color This Book are secondarily canon. Lazy screenshot-based novelizations of existing episodes are whatever.

I choose to selectively semi-reject some of the skeevier conspiracy theory claims in the books as "Bill's lying about these": outside of those exceptions, going "there's no evidence Bill's lying about this part but I've decided that he is just because I don't like it" is the coward's way and dishonorable.

Info in the Bill Cipher AMA is third tier canon, since it was written in-character and comes directly from Alex. (Some quotes from the AMA were recycled directly into TBOB + TINAWDC.) Gus Burnside's twitter account is also third tier.

For the first three tiers, all info is canon unless something in a higher tier contradicts it.

The Cipher Hunt is 3.5th tier.

All out-of-universe materials—livestreams, panels, interviews, DVD commentary, tweets, doodles & concept art, etc—are fourth tier. If it's contradicted by anything in the higher tiers, they take precedence; but, for lack of a conflict, out-of-universe materials fill in the gaps. But the person involved matters: show writers' statements on the characters are more canon than voice actors' statements. If fourth-tier materials contradict each other, the newer one takes precedence. Fourth-tier materials can be selectively ignored if so desired, but better to find a way to twist them to make them work.

The Gnome Gemulets game is fifth tier; all the lore from it is canon, but the events may or may not have actually happened, or else only loosely happened like that. Gnome Gemulets may occasionally rank higher than the out-of-universe materials.

Disney.com flash games and the like are semi-canon; you CAN take lore and details from them if you want but the events probably didn't literally happen unless you really want to make it work. Okay to imagine that events happened that were loosely inspired by the games.

Deleted scenes and cameos (ex: Bill in the Simpsons) are semi-semi canon. They probably didn't happen, especially if it contradicts canon; but you can freely take ideas and vibes from them and use them as examples of the kinds of things that could happen (ex: Bill would try to con people into buying crypto just for the heck of it).

Unwritten episodes are semi-semi-semi canon: they definitely didn't happen, but by god, you could MAKE them happen.

The How Not To Draw Grunkle Stan short is as yet unknown. Under normal conditions it ought to be semi-semi canon, but since TINAWDC did some stuff with the Henchmaniacs escaping to reality shortly before this clip came out about Bill escaping to reality, there's a slim possibility this is part of a budding storyline about Bill & the gang in the real world, so I'm reserving judgment for now.

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samueldays · 1 year ago

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Sam Reviews: H. Beam Piper

I bought a fat collection of short stories and novels by H. Beam Piper, a sci-fi writer of the 50s and 60s. It holds up quite well, I think, as I reread the whole collection recently. There's a variety of content, from alien first contact to space-pirates and time travel, and a "thick" setting base for much of it with elements like carniculture or the veridicator that pop up in several stories without being the basis of one. Piper uses a pair of shared universes for many of his stories where you can see connections without needing to have read the previous. I think there's also less showing off wiseass references than in a lot of contemporary sci-fi, though I might simply have missed some.

The odd pair out is Graveyard of Dreams and its quasi-rewrite The Cosmic Computer, which belong to the first shared universe. Both books have the same start: Boy comes home to frontier colony planet after having studied at prestigious university in the core worlds, receives welcome as hometown hero, is now expected to solve planet's problems of being a run-down backwater after the space war, also find the allegedly war-winning supercomputer that's rumored to be located somewhere nearby and could be dug up like it's pirate treasure. Boy has learned at university the computer is probably imaginary, but it would break the community's hearts to tell them.

Graveyard takes the view that the population has been thinking too much in terms of blaming the war and hoping for the plot-device computer instead of doing anything, so the boy tells his dad the computer isn't real, and they start a conspiracy to reform the planet as part of the computer hunt: The computer might be on the moon, or another planet in the same solar system, so we'll need a spaceship. We can't search the whole planet in one go, so we'll need regular refueling and resupply and a spaceport here. We'll need radars and scanners and drones and other things bought from Earth, so we'll have to invite trade ships to our spaceport, and produce things to sell for Earth currency. Implementing the computer's economic plan once we find it will no doubt require infrastructure, which we should build up in advance. And so the colony gets better, ostensibly as part of looking for the computer.

Through all this, I never felt like Piper was dunking on people who put all their hopes and dreams in a problem-solving magic supercomputer, or on fellow sci-fi writers with their plot device computers. There's very little vitriol. Characters had simply built up their hopes too high. (If he had written it sixty years later, though, I might have thought it was a dunk on people going "crypto fixes this! put vegetables on the blockchain!")

The story is in one sense hard sci-fi, because it limits itself to realistic known capacities of computers, and in another sense, not sci-fi at all, because the computer is a pure McGuffin and the moral of the story is that people should work on solving their problems and improving their community instead of hoping for a McGuffin to fix everything.

The Cosmic Computer starts the same way with much the same plan, and a "salvage company" double-bluff that's supposedly supposedly for picking up other things while hiding the secret supercomputer, but supposedly actually for getting the computer, but actually just for looting abandoned military bases from the war as a way of revitalizing the economy.

Then they find the computer for real, and things get odd.

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Uller Uprising is one of his earliest stories and the first I read that hinted at the specific timeline mentioned above, branching off from the era when he wrote, that did not come to pass but is an interesting speculation to read. The dating system is AE (Atomic Era), counting from 1942, when mankind first harnessed nuclear power. Most of the Northern Hemisphere nuked itself (or each other) in great power conflict in later world wars that timeline; the rebuilding of Earth and colonization of the stars was mostly done by Southern Hemisphere states such as South Africa and Argentina. The story features a pair of ships named Paul Kruger and Jan Smuts.

Oh for the South Africa that was! Piper saw a country that would reach for the stars once the US and SU had ground each other down. South Africa once had a nuclear power program. Now it can't keep the lights on. But I digress.

The scene for the Uprising is a Terran trading colony, in the 'colonialism' sense like the British India Company, on a world populated by aliens. Piper's aliens are polylithic*: among them is joy in prosperity, and resentment at colonists, and desire to learn, and factional infighting, variety "I want those fancy gadgets the Terrans have so I can crush my rival", and variety "I want to manipulate the Terrans into crushing my rival for me". They have personality of their own, rather then being mere foils or subjects of history. One can say that such infighting is the often the downfall of colonized people, but that begs the question of calling them "a people" in the first place, rather than two peoples who fought until they both lost to a third.

*I would have said "diverse" but that has other connotations these days.

There's an angry mob of Ullerians that's been inflamed into simply going out and murdering Terrans, and there's cunning Ullerians who have signed on for a term of work on Terran ships going to the uranium mines, to learn the secrets of nuclear power. There's also awful smut that's relevant in-universe. Quite good stuff.

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Little Fuzzy is also set in the Atomic Era timeline. The Terran Federation is spreading across the stars, and on the planet Zarathustra, the prospector Jack Holloway stumbles across an odd creature:

He turned quickly to see two wide eyes staring up at him out of a ball of golden fur. Whatever it was, it had a round head and big ears and a vaguely humanoid face with a little snub nose. It was sitting on its haunches, and in that position it was about a foot high. It had two tiny hands with opposing thumbs.

He thinks it's cute, and adopts it to live in his house, and the critter brings its family, and he sees they're smart enough to use tools when eating some of the other local wildlife.

This raises a question of whether they're smart enough to count as native sapients and should have rights to the planet. We hear about the "talk and build a fire rule" which is the precedent of a future court case deciding that those two activities are sufficient proof of sapience, but not necessary for it, as shown in another court case when a woman murdered her infant baby and tried to plead that the baby couldn't talk nor build a fire, and was convicted of murder anyway.

Jack Holloway, of course, is all in favor of getting his cute adopted fuzzball recognized as sapient. The antagonist of the story is the Zarathustra Company which holds a Class-III legal charter for the settlement of an uninhabited planet; recognition of the Fuzzies would make it an inhabited Class-IV planet and void the corporate charter and make a lot of rich people lose a lot of money.

Again, there's a lack of dunking. The ZC is wrong, and commits crimes in an attempt to maintain its position, kidnapping the Fuzzies, fabricating evidence, and so forth. But I don't hear commie sneering from Piper as the ZC loses in court and one of its corrupt cops is put to a veridicator.

It's a very sci-fi piece of technology: an advanced mind-reading (brain-reading?) lie-detector helmet with the finesse to identify technically true but misleading statements.

There was a bright conical helmet on his head, and electrodes had been clamped to various portions of his anatomy. On the wall behind him was a circular screen which ought to have been a calm turquoise blue, but which was flickering from dark blue through violet to mauve. That was simple nervous tension and guilt and anger at the humiliation of being subjected to veridicated interrogation. Now and then there would be a stabbing flicker of bright red as he toyed mentally with some deliberate misstatement of fact.

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The veridicator pops up again in Space Viking, farther in the future. The Terran Federation is disintegrating.

"Nifflheim, no! There aren't a dozen and a half planets in the Old Federation that still have hyperdrive, and they're all civilized. That's if 'civilized' is what Gilgamesh is," he added. "These are homemade barbarians. Workers and peasants who revolted to seize and divide the wealth and then found they'd smashed the means of production and killed off all the technical brains. Survivors on planets hit during the Interstellar Wars, from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries, who lost the machinery of civilization. Followers of political leaders on local-dictatorship planets. Companies of mercenaries thrown out of employment and living by pillage. Religious fanatics following self-appointed prophets."

The viking-esque privateers of the Sword Worlds are raiding the Federation worlds for loot and machinery and personnel to build anew on their own planets; this situation is already so far advanced that one character bemoans the Sword Worlds themselves sliding into decadence and barbarism as their best and brightest leave to outright conquer Federation worlds and live there. All this is the backdrop to a hunt for vengeance and a grudge to be settled between one Space Viking and another, which in the process results in taking over a world and becoming King, and watching another world collapse.

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Some of the minor stories:

Naudsonce is about first contact with an alien species and the attempts to establish communication when the odd aliens make sounds, but do not seem to have language. They can gesture enough for trade, though, and sell off some of their spare livestock. The brass provisionally file it as Domesticated Type C. The enlisted men, wanting to discuss the barbecue, cut this down to "domsee" and the name sticks.

Lone Star Planet is rather comic: there's a planet settled by exaggerated Texans, the most Texan ones who wanted to live in Space Texas specifically, and they brought the Alamo with them on a spaceship. They breed dinosaur-like "supercows" on their ranches, their cowboys need tanks for herding the supercows and implicitly constitute small armies, and it's legal to kill politicians for the crime of attempted taxation. Our protagonist is a nervous new ambassador sent to this planet after his predecessor was killed, suspecting that his government wants him also killed as casus belli. (Partly inspired by H.L. Mencken's The Malevolent Jobholder.)

A Slave is a Slave concerns the imperialistic abolition of slavery on a planet where slavery has been the order of the day for so long that it's becoming an in-name-only matter: the "slaves" are the ones who operate everything important, while the "masters" spend their days in petty feuds with each other. The imperial potentate sent to oversee abolition is a first-timer, learning on the job how to administrate foreign planets. This does not go entirely smoothly.

Hunter Patrol is a time loop. A present-day soldier is drawn to the future to help overthrow a tyrant that has conquered the world and conditioned people into servile pacifism. Returning to his own time with a bit of loot and papers from the tyrant's office but without future memories of what they are or why, he uses the future knowledge to become rich and powerful, aims to establish world peace, and ironically becomes the tyrant murdered by his past self.

Null-ABC depicts a future where "Literate" has become a profession; most people aren't literate and look down on the concept. Instructions are usually pictographic, or you hire a Literate to read it for you. Data storage and messaging is commonly audio. TVs and videos are still around, naturally. This because Literacy is associated with propaganda pamphlets and hell-tomes like Mein Kampf and Das Kapital, and the four world wars they caused. This is the one story where I recall Piper does get in some cheap jokes, in the world news report of items such as,

"The Central Diplomatic Council of the Reunited Nations has just announced, for the hundred and seventy-eighth time, that the Arab-Israel dispute has been finally, definitely and satisfactorily settled."

unrelated to the plot of the story, which involves political strife about the status of Literates and literacy.

That joke has aged very well, I must say.

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Piper's second shared universe set of stories is the Paratime collection. In a future without interstellar travel, as Earth's resources run dry, mankind has instead developed the technology of visiting alternate timelines and parallell universe Earths. On the uninhabited ones, futuremen mine resources directly; on the inhabited ones, futuremen buy from the local miners.

This gives the protagonists reason to get involved pretty much anywhere in history or alt-history as they have to cover up the Paratime Secret, or stop a time crime, or catch the Venusian Nighthound that some dumbass let loose in a 1950s America before the cops ask too many questions about the unusually mutilated cattle. It is a really great Excuse Plot for whatever time period, technological level, and/or cultural group the author feels like writing about today.

It could easily have stopped there, and become a series of disconnected anecdotes and shiny distractions, but Piper executes it well and gives it context. Home Timeline has people and places and customs and strife, although some of the bits feel clunky to me.

Tortha Karf fingered them and nodded. Then he became as visibly angry as a man of his civilization and culture-level ever permitted himself. "What does that fool think we have a Paratime Code for?" he demanded. "It's entirely illegal to transport any extraterrestrial animal or object to any time-line on which space-travel is unknown. I don't care if he is a green-seal thavrad; he'll face charges, when he gets back, for this!"

It's very hard to make future ranks sound appropriately important while staying foreign, and "green-seal thavrad" falls short, IMO. (Also clunky: "We'll blow them to Em-See-Square!" elsewhere in Piper's writing.)

Most of the Paratime protagonists are time cops of some sort, though with a major exception: Calvin Morrison, a man from our time's America, gets sucked up in the wake of a paratime travel vehicle. Falling into a timeline where America was colonized by an eastward Indo-Aryan migration and the technology level is late medieval, he becomes Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, protagonist of his own novel by the same name and several sequels by Piper's peers.

(A time cop stops by to check whether the Paratime secret has been leaked, and is very satisfied that Calvin has told everyone "a wizard did it" and is helping to keep the secret.)

In this alternate timeline, America is divided into kingdoms worshipping the Wolf-God and the Sky-Father and the Earth-Mother and other interpretations of ancient Aryan deities as filtered through 1950s historiography and then cultural drift as imagined by Piper, which makes it an interesting sort of foreign place. But the supreme god of the time is Styphon, whose priesthood alone holds the secret of making fireseed (gunpowder). This monopoly is the main source of their power, and Calvin is about to break it.

The plot outline "Contemporary man falls into the past/fantasy world and introduces gunpowder" has been recycled a thousand times by worse writers, and I wonder how many of them would trace their literary ancestry back to Piper if we could see who they'd copied. I know it's more than zero: like with Journey to the West but less famous, reading Lord Kalvan made several things click into place as I recognized elements other authors had been copy-pasting that made sense in the original but were weirdly out-of-place in the flimsy knockoffs. Literary cargo cult.

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In closing, Piper was an original writer, and I recommend his stories.

No man is entirely original, one can locate him easily in the late golden age of American scifi with peers and influences, but he stands out to me as the sort of person that others were copying a great deal. Lord Kalvan I mentioned above, the Sword-Worlds of Space Viking went right into the Traveller RPG, Little Fuzzy was rebooted by John Scalzi as Fuzzy Nation, Star Trek's "tribbles" were originally "fuzzies" before Legal got involved, the Paratime series was an inspiration for Charles Stross's Merchant Princes, the list goes on.

And it looks to me, as with several other of my favorite and respected authors, that this is partly because he could draw on a wide set of life experiences outside of the incestuous 'literary class'. (Vague, I know.) He worked on the railroad, he studied engineering, he collected firearms and helped compile a collection of archaic ones. His short story Omnilingual turns on the fact that science has a shared true referent: the Periodic Table of the Martians must refer to the same elements as on Earth, and so the long-dead Martians' language is deciphered.

I might say: he was a shape rotator. :-)

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hjauks · 4 months ago

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The Crypto Craze: A Decentralized Treasure Hunt!

Did you know that the first real-world transaction using Bitcoin was for a pizza? On May 22, 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz famously paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas, marking a significant milestone in cryptocurrency history. At that time, the value of 10,000 BTC was about $41, but today that same pizza purchase would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars! This day is now celebrated annually as "Bitcoin Pizza Day" in the crypto community! 🍕💰

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starseedfxofficial · 8 days ago

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The "Triple Bottom" That Smart Money Doesn't Want You to Know About When it comes to trading, spotting a "triple bottom" is like discovering buried treasure—a rare chart pattern that, when decoded correctly, can signal huge opportunities. But if you pair this classic pattern with Smart Money Concepts (SMC), you can elevate your trading strategy to a level where the pros start taking notes. Let’s deep-dive into why this duo is a game-changer, bust some myths, and learn techniques that’ll make you see the market through an entirely new lens. Why Most Traders Get It Wrong Picture this: You spot a triple bottom, throw your life savings at it, and then watch as your trade nosedives faster than a bad crypto meme coin. Sound familiar? That’s because many traders focus only on the surface. The triple bottom pattern alone isn’t a holy grail. Without context, it’s like bringing a butter knife to a sword fight. 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Crypto Investor Buries Treasure Chests Worth Millions, Challenges Anyone to Find Them

By Spooky on November 22nd, 2024 Category: News An entrepreneur and early crypto investor recently announced a public treasure hunt for five different treasure chests containing valuable items allegedly worth around $2 million. Jon Collins-Black once dreamed of finding valuable treasure, but he managed to become rich by investing in Bitcoin early, so he has spent the last five years planning an…

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Pixel Power: Revolutionizing Online Fundraising with Digital Ingenuity

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Crypto Rug Pulls: What Are They & How to Avoid Them

Cryptocurrency rug pulls are akin to concealed traps in a treasure hunt, presenting a notable peril to investors and frequently resulting in considerable monetary losses. This article delves into the domain of rug pulls, examining how they function, the various forms they can assume, the telltale signs to watch for, infamous instances from the past, and advice on how to shield oneself from succumbing to these deceptions.

What is a Rug Pull in Cryptocurrency?

Visualize an illusionist in the cryptosphere who enchants the audience with a groundbreaking trick, only to vanish with everyone’s purses. A rug pull is a swindle where originators debut a new token, bait investors with seductive promises, and then unexpectedly abandon the venture, absconding with all the invested capital. This con prospers due to the decentralized and often pseudonymous nature of blockchain technology, making it exceedingly arduous to identify the culprits.

Attributes of Rug Pulls

Swift Liquidity Withdrawal: The creators drain all the liquidity from the token, rendering it worthless. This is akin to pulling the carpet out from under the investors, leaving them holding tokens that have depreciated to nothing.

Concealed Team Identities: The individuals behind the project frequently remain obscure or furnish fictitious credentials. This anonymity makes it difficult for investors to place trust in the venture, increasing the likelihood of deception.

Opacity in Project Data: There is scant to nonexistent information about the project’s advancement, applications, or future intentions. Unlike authentic projects, which generally provide consistent updates, detailed roadmaps, and clear purposes for their tokens, rug pulls keep everything nebulous and enigmatic.

Rug pulls exploit the fervor and faith of investors in the crypto marketplace. They often transpire on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) where tokens can be listed without stringent scrutiny. Blockchain technology, which records all transactions, serves as a double-edged sword; while it offers visibility, it also allows fraudsters to execute rug pulls and abscond with the funds.

To avoid falling prey to a rug pull, investors must be discerning and undertake meticulous research. Understanding the project’s roadmap, the team’s bona fides, and technical intricacies can aid in mitigating the risk of being swindled.

Mechanism of Rug Pull Schemes

Rug pull scams follow a strategic playbook:

Token Creation: Scammers develop a new token, often with an exciting and promising narrative.

Marketing Blitz: They launch an aggressive marketing campaign to attract investors, leveraging social media and influencers.

Liquidity Pool Setup: Scammers create a liquidity pool on a decentralized exchange to facilitate trading.

Initial Investment Surge: Early investors are drawn in by the potential for high returns and invest significant funds.

Liquidity Drain: Once enough funds are amassed, the scammers withdraw all liquidity, causing the token’s value to plummet.

Disappearance: The perpetrators vanish, leaving investors with worthless tokens and no recourse for recovery.

Recent Examples from July 2024

QuantumX

Details: Promised a new era of quantum-resistant blockchain technology. Listed on several DEXs, it attracted major hype through social media and tech forums. Developers pulled out liquidity worth $25 million, causing massive losses.

EcoChain

Details: Marketed as a green energy blockchain project, EcoChain saw rapid investment growth. Listed in early June, it collapsed in mid-July when developers withdrew $40 million in funds and disappeared.

Additional Stats

There has been a 30% increase in rug pull scams from January to July 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.

Total estimated losses from rug pulls in the first half of 2024 are approximately $500 million.

More than 10,000 investors were impacted by rug pull scams in July 2024 alone.

Types of Rug Pulls in Cryptocurrency

Traditional Rug Pull

Description: Developers desert the project and withdraw all liquidity, leaving investors with valueless tokens.

Example (July 2024): GreenTech Token promised eco-friendly innovations. Developers siphoned off $15 million, devastating the token.

Statistics: 45% of rug pulls in July 2024 were traditional.

Liquidity Rug Pull

Description: Developers establish a liquidity pool with their token and another cryptocurrency. When sufficient liquidity is added, they extract the paired cryptocurrency, collapsing the token’s value.

Example (July 2024): BioEnergy Coin created a pool with ETH, then developers absconded with $30 million, plummeting the token’s value.

Statistics: Liquidity rug pulls comprised 35% of rug pulls in July 2024.

Limit Order Rug Pull

Description: Developers manipulate the token’s order book by placing and canceling substantial orders to create deceptive price movements, enticing investors into buying at inflated prices before unloading their holdings.

Example (July 2024): SmartTrade Token employed limit orders to escalate prices, then liquidated holdings, causing a $20 million loss.

Statistics: 20% of rug pulls in July 2024 involved limit orders.

By comprehending the various types of rug pulls and staying updated on recent scams and statistics, investors can better protect their assets and steer clear of falling prey to these deceitful schemes.

Signs and Symptoms of a Rug Pull

Unknown Team: If you can’t locate trustworthy details about the team behind the project, it’s a warning sign.

Opacity: If the project isn’t explicit about its aims, development, or plans, be doubtful.

Odd Token Allocation: If a few wallets possess the majority of the tokens, there’s a significant risk of manipulation.

Intense Promotion: Be skeptical of projects that promise massive gains and use extravagant marketing strategies.

No Verifications or Inferior Code Quality: Genuine projects usually have their code reviewed by security specialists. If there are no verifications or the code quality is inferior, it’s a warning signal.

Abrupt Changes in Liquidity: Sudden substantial withdrawals from the liquidity pool can signify a rug pull in progress.

Exaggerated Token Value: Swift, inexplicable price spikes often suggest manipulation. Be wary if the value surges without clear reasons.

Investors should be cautious and conduct thorough research before committing funds to any cryptocurrency project. By observing these warning signs, you can evade scams and protect your investments.

Historical Examples of Rug Pulls

Lessons from Rug Pulls

These incidents highlight the necessity of meticulous research and careful scrutiny. Evaluating a project’s legitimacy, developer transparency, and audit history can help investors steer clear of similar scams.

How to Shield Yourself from Rug Pulls

Safeguarding against rug pulls necessitates watchfulness and preemptive steps. Here are some measures to shield your investments:

Thorough Investigation: Immerse yourself in the project’s team, whitepaper, and roadmap. Validate the developers’ qualifications and their previous ventures.

Confirm Inspections: Ensure the project has undergone security assessments by trustworthy firms. Inspections can expose potential flaws in the code.

Inspect Token Allocation: Look for an equitable token distribution. Projects where a few wallets possess a substantial portion of tokens are perilous.

Oversee Liquidity Pools: Maintain an observant eye on the liquidity pool’s dynamics. Extensive, sudden withdrawals can signify an upcoming rug pull.

Shun Overhyped Projects: Be cautious of projects that vow unbelievable returns or employ intense marketing strategies.

Utilize Established Exchanges: Trade on renowned and reliable exchanges that have rigorous listing standards.

Leverage Detection Tools: Utilize online tools and platforms that scrutinize and analyze wallet activities and token allocations. These tools can provide early warnings of dubious activities.

Remaining knowledgeable and judicious is essential in the volatile world of cryptocurrency.

What to Do if You Fall Victim to a Rug Pull?

If you fall prey to a rug pull, rapid action is imperative. Here’s what you should undertake:

Compile Everything: Amass all details related to the scam, including transaction records, correspondences, and project specifics.

Inform Authorities: Notify relevant authorities and regulatory bodies about the occurrence. This can aid in the examination and potential recuperation of funds.

Seek Legal Assistance: Consult a legal authority specializing in cryptocurrency scams. They can provide advice on possible legal measures.

Warn the Community: Relay your experience to the cryptocurrency community to caution others and avert further scams.

Contact the Exchange: If the token was exchanged on a platform, alert the exchange about the scam. They might help immobilize the assets and examine the fraud.

Executing these steps quickly can enhance the probability of reclaiming your funds and preventing others from becoming victims of the same scam.

Final Reflections

Alertness and understanding are paramount in safeguarding investors from rug pulls. Grasping the nuances of these scams, recognizing preliminary indicators, and performing exhaustive examinations can notably reduce the probability of succumbing to deceptive schemes. Staying vigilant and prudent is essential in the ever-evolving realm of digital currencies. Investors must prioritize defense and meticulous evaluation to protect their holdings.

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The Upsides and Downsides of Cryptocurrency

Welcome to the wild and wacky world of cryptocurrency! It's like a financial rollercoaster – thrilling, unpredictable, and oh-so-intriguing. But before you jump on the crypto bandwagon, buckle up as we explore the upsides and downsides of this digital treasure hunt in India.

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Unleashing the Power of NFT Marketing: Innovative Ideas to Drive Success

In the ever-evolving world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), effective marketing plays a crucial role in capturing the attention of collectors, investors, and enthusiasts. With the growing popularity of NFTs, it's essential to stand out from the competition and reach a wider audience. In this blog post, we will explore innovative NFT marketing ideas to help you maximize the visibility, engagement, and success of your NFT projects.

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