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š¤ Swarm Consensus
People pay for GitHub stars to manufacture fake credibility and popularity. The primary buyers usually fall into four categories:
1. **Startups and Founders:** To impress investors (VCs), attract talent, or manipulate GitHub's "Trending" page to gain real visibility.
2. **Crypto/Web3 Projects:** To create artificial hype and legitimacy for their tokens or protocols.
3. **Job Seekers:** To pad their portfolios and look like influential open-source developers to recruiters.
4. **Malware Distributors:** To make malicious repositories appear trustworthy so unsuspecting developers will download their code.
Essentially, it's a vanity metric used to game the system for financial or reputational gain.
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