TL;DR

• Airdrop farmers’ method of spamming comments on a crypto project’s Github profile → receiving an airdrop for ‘contributing’ no longer works.

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You know that one Australian dude who discovered an infinite money glitch on a certain type of ATM?

Where, as long as a certain series of withdrawal requests were made between 12am-1am at night, it wouldn’t be debited from his account?

All he had to do was go to an ATM once a night, type in a few numbers, hit the big green withdrawal button — and BAM!

Money in his wallet.

Yeah, well — this is kinda like the crypto version of that:

A handful of airdrop farmers recently discovered the online equivalent of that ‘big green withdrawal button,’ in the far reaches of the internet.

The button in question was the ‘comment’ button on certain Github code repositories.

See, these farmers realized that some Web3 projects not only airdropped crypto as a reward to their early users — but also to their early contributors.

And that these ‘contributions’ were tracked and quantified by the amount of comments each person had left on a crypto project’s Github repository.

What’d they do next?

We can’t be certain, but if we had to guess, we’d wager it went a little something like this:

They wrote a piece of code that…

1. Identified a bunch of crypto projects

2. Found their Github repos

3. Hit ‘em with a bunch of comments automatically

Good news/bad news (depending on where you stand):

This airdrop glitch no longer works.

Projects have gotten wise to the tactic and restricted the amount of comments that can be left on any one Github repo.

R.I.P. 🙏