Bitcoin Bot Blocks BRC-20 Tokens, But Copycats Emerge as Creator's Funds Dry Up
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A Bitcoin developer's bot called the Sophon blocked new BRC-20 tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain, but now someone else may have copied it.
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The Sophon frontruns BRC-20 deployments by paying higher transaction fees, setting token supplies to 1 and preventing new tokens.
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The bot's creator @rot13maxi spent $500 in Bitcoin to run it for a few weeks, derailing 275 tokens, but turned it off when funds ran out.
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BRC-20 lead maintainer @raphjaph called for the Sophon's return as text inscriptions surged without it.
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@rot13maxi may release the Sophon code publicly so "monsters" can't lurk privately in Bitcoin's mempool.