@monteluna

Before I post this: I am not under duress and have no signs of suicidal thoughts, or a history of self-harm. Below, I have pulled up the token swaps for Eric Adam's NYC coin in @dune.eth, totaled the volume swap, and add time metrics as well as a signal to filter for wallets that were created near the exact mint block time of 2026-01-12 21:59, and rank by the top volume traders. You can see the earliest time of trade was 27 minutes from token creation to a flood of buys around 22:27 (first time column), and a large majority of those addresses were estimated to be created between 21:00 and 22:27 with a large proportion between 21:50-22:27 (second time column). Does anyone see the pattern? Check every row who's first buy was 22:27 and see their total profit. It's *negative*. It also appears to sum around $800000. Now look, there's one address that happened to profit around $800000. I think a lot of people are trying to label this a pump and dump, but this data is suggesting something more elaborate, money laundering. By using an LP position, you can pay someone money within the same block, get a few sniper bots to add some statistical noise, and also get plausible deniability since you can claim you don't know who the buyer is. Not sure what the feds are going to do here since this is mostly a statistical argument that sniper bots probably shouldn't be loosing money if they do get to snipe the block. Unless they can prove this was a planned coordinated as a way to receive payments while hiding the payment itself, he might actually get away with it.

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