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CapitalistMon Sep 21 · 7:46 AM ET · x

X IS SUING THE PEOPLE BEHIND @SAYLORDOCS AND EIGHT OTHER BITCOIN ACCOUNTS — THE CHARGE IS FAKING ENGAGEMENT TO GET PAID

X filed a claim in the High Court of England and Wales, number BL-2026-001161, against two named people and whoever else ran nine accounts listed in an annex. The list reads like a bitcoin timeline: @saylordocs, @Bitcoin_Teddy, @TrendingBitcoin, @BTC_Vibes, @MrSuperBitcoin, and four more. The file on X’s transparency site is dated September 17.

X alleges the accounts worked as one network to collect payouts from its Creator Revenue Sharing program by “manufacturing the appearance of genuine content engagement.” Its examples are about timing: three accounts replying to the same post “within seconds,” two posting “substantively similar content within seconds of each other.” X says it suspended the accounts for “coordinated revenue sharing fraud and platform manipulation.” It is suing for deceit, conspiracy, breach of contract and unjust enrichment, and wants the money handed back. Cointelegraph and crypto.news, both reading the filing, put the payouts at at least £207,384 across six accounts. We could not read the figures off the PDF ourselves; they do not survive text extraction.

Pay people for engagement and some of them will manufacture it. The claim says the program has since been replaced by Original Content Rewards. New name, same incentive. None of this is proven yet. It is X’s side, filed in X’s court of choice. At the time of this writing, bitcoin was $84,837.

READ THE CLAIM →
X · MON SEP 21 · 7:46 AM ET