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Why is VegasDave in the spotlight? Isn’t it possible that VegasDave paid for the moments that were gifted to him without knowledge of the multi-accounting? IMO there is nothing illegal or nefarious about buying moments off market. It is still allowed and was previously facilitated by TS.

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I suspect VegasDave and Grailed are owner of an internet cafe (If not bot). They use their regular or loyal customers (probably gamers) in exchange of a free internet (game time). Have them signup to TS, use prepaid card to fund the account & passed KYC. When there’s a pack drop they all join the queue, whoever got a pack they all gift the moments to the owner which is Grailed and VegasDave. This is just a possibility since every computer unit has different IP’s and they are maybe a massive group of friends.

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Curious your take on the recent dingaling news? Definitely interesting that TS allowed it to continue after stating their policy on multi accounts. And his response to it all is even worse imo.

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Blockchain’s transparency is a great feature BUT without the community using its various skills to preserve and foster a better more fair internet...blockchain is useless. Thanks for the sweat and following your curiosity.

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It's a rampant issue. Have you seen Splash Market discord? It's not isolated by any means and the majority of their growth from cool cats 2 on was multi-accounts. Why do you think you only have a 5% chance at basically any pack if you're honest and only have 1 account? Cuz hundreds of people have 10, 20, 50+ accounts.

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This is sadly just one example of this. Many more are easy to find. I have personally found (and reported) quite a few using the combination of livetoken, rayvin, addmorefunds etc...

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Amazing sleuthing and writeup. Curiosity killed the cat but I just hope it's not the CryptoKittie-producing Dapper Labs. It is good that they are responding to it directly (as noted in their 4/7 office hours).

Wished they would have addressed it on their own without your or anyone else's sleuthing outside of their own internal investigations team (which may not exist given the likely lean staffing they have but that should hopefully change with recent funding).

Thanks for your hard work, mang. You're a true asset to this burgeoning asset class and the community that supports it.

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great work, keep it up!

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It's quite common knowledge that multi accounters FAR outweigh "true collectors".

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This is what could bring this whole thing down if we cant clean up these bad practices

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Wasn’t gifting disabled on March 29th or was that after ? I’ve seen someone mention an account holding two LBJSS at time of drop with no way they could have bought one.

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This is great stuff, thanks for doing the research and write up. I hope TS is all over people like this, I bet there are dozens put there.

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Great article. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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