🐱 Traps in Nuts Farm

Friends, I can’t tell you how much your support for my work (or should I say — my hunt) means to me! It’s a huge source of motivation and a reminder that everything is working for your good.

With the community’s green light, I’m moving ahead with my anti-Sybil journey.

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Today I want to share some tricks in our app that’ve been there since February. Definitely one of those "not a bug, but a feature" moments 😁

Every two weeks, we set "traps" in the app to catch the savviest Sybil users. For a short window, we disabled certain «buttons» in specific sections so they couldn’t be accessed through the UI.

🤡 Turns out a shocking number of "pros" still found ways to use those blocked features. No «button» on the screen, but somehow they kept clicking it… now that’s persistence!

Small tricks — big consequences for smart-bot owners.

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⚰️ Today’s traps caught and wiped out:

✅ Lessons: 112,657
✅ Tasks: 64,049
✅ Other: 48,383

The traps work in different ways, but the idea stays the same: gradually filtering out waves of "dead" accounts that appear and disappear.

As of September 26, there are 147,138 contenders left for the rewards.

At this pace, even I’m curious to see what the final distribution will look like. One thing’s certain: only the worthy will survive in Nuts Farm!

🎁 How about a little giveaway?

Drop your guess in the comments: how many participants will be left once my anti-Sybil hunt is over?

Closest answer wins 10,000 $OA from me at conversion. Deal?

👋 Can a robot write a symphony?
Can a robot turn a scrap of canvas into a masterpiece?

We’re not sure — but we do know what it can do on Nuts Farm…

Big farms run on software — programs that execute different tasks in subsystems.

🤖 Now imagine a group of users whose farm claim fired every eight hours — on the dot.

Could a human do that? Seems obvious — that level of machine-like precision isn’t human.

⚰️ Based on this and several other signals, today I wiped out 294,833 accounts.

As of September 24, there are 398,933 contenders left for the reward.

I wonder how many of you will stick with me to the end?

Mister Patrick is strict but fair. The hunt continues!

✋ THE HUNT BEGINS!

Well, dear users and multi-accounters! Today I stand guard for the first and wipe out the second. And that’s only fair — farmers had their chance to come clean!

✍️ Check out the stats for Nuts Farm at the time of the September 20 snapshot:

▪️Total users: 2,896,362
▪️Annihilation: cut by minimum meaningful activity filter — 2,018,464 (balance ▪️Eligible for the drop before the anti-sybil campaign: 877,898

🙄 First wave of sybils, I get it… but seriously, a little respect? A touch of professionalism? What even is this…?

fffggdfgfgfgf4343 / fffgdfggfgfgf6676 / ggfgfgfgffgdfg55543hh / ggfgfgfgffgdfg55543fff / ggfgfgfgffgdfg55543jj...

Behavior and these "creative" nicknames led to the first wipeout: 122,308 multi-accounts.

Looks like I’ll have to launch my own Open Academy course on multi-accounting, because this is just embarrassing…

☝️ Shall we count the catch?

As of September 22: 755,590

And we’re not stopping here!

Remember: Mister Patrick will do EVERYTHING to make sure the drop goes to the right hands!

📸 Say cheese! SNAPPING THE PICTURE!

Well, that’s a wrap — time to relax, friends! The Nuts Farm epilogue has begun and it will consist of three acts.

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1️⃣Act: "What's special about today?"

Today is the snapshot of ALL farmed NUTS points, as well as the streaks our users have so valiantly maintained.

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2️⃣Act: "What will happen from September 22 to 28?"

Starting Monday, an incredibly exciting event I personally prepared awaits us — "The Anti-Sybil Filtering by Mister Patrick" (apologies if this sounds immodest). Razors at the ready!🪒

All farms and sybils who haven’t submitted a sincere declaration via the form, prepare to be reset!

This will significantly reduce the total volume of all NUTS and increase the rewards for those who truly deserve them!

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3️⃣Act: "What’s next?"

On September 30, the drop awaits us — all NUTS points will be converted into $OA.

Additionally, all Nuts Farm participants will receive a unique early-user achievement — the most important and highly significant reward in Open Academy!

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🏆 P.S. "What’s the plan for now?"

Rest, enjoy, and wait!

While the anti-sybil campaign is ongoing, the app remains accessible: lessons, games and tasks are open. NUTS points will continue to be credited to your balance, but they will no longer be counted.

However, during this time, you can still boost your multiplier coefficients, which will impact your final reward during conversion.

Viva Nuts Farm! Together we did it!