{"id":73733,"date":"2023-02-07T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=73733"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:54:05","slug":"damus-social-network-announces-sats-payouts-scammers-seek-to-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/damus-social-network-announces-sats-payouts-scammers-seek-to-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Damus social network announces sats payouts; scammers seek to profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recently launched decentralized social network Damus announced the addition of a content-monetisation feature that would allow users to earn satoshis for viewing posts. The team did not specify a timeline for the rollout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Coming soon in the next version\u2026 earn sats directly on posts! This post earned 118k sats which is about $40. Pretty neat! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dAbWWD4i93\">pic.twitter.com\/dAbWWD4i93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Damus\u26a1\ufe0f (@damusapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damusapp\/status\/1622377593029943296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Analysts at PeckShield said that Damus has been flooded with fraudulent projects posing as original crypto protocols. In total, experts counted 15 such cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Damus?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Damus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Scam?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Scam<\/a> PeckShield has detected 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24Damus&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$Damus<\/a> have been newly created on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> &#038; $BNBChain<br \/>1 of these <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24Damus&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$Damus<\/a> appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/honeypot?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#honeypot<\/a>, 7 of them have a high selling tax (100%) and 7 of them have already dropped over -99% <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damusapp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@damusapp<\/a><br \/>Do *NOT* fall prey to it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P3bKjUZ2ZY\">https:\/\/t.co\/P3bKjUZ2ZY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l8ZajkVZvO\">pic.twitter.com\/l8ZajkVZvO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1622436301055336450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fake tokens are issued on the Ethereum and BNB Chain networks and contain malicious features designed to prompt users to buy them. At least one of the 15 scams does not allow holders to sell their assets.<\/p>\n<p>PeckShield noted that most of these tokens impose a 100% \u201csell tax,\u201d which is a way to steal all funds when buyers attempt to transfer them.<\/p>\n<p>The Damus team also issued a warning in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8SCAM ALERT\ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>Damus does not have a token and will never have a token. If you bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24DAMUS&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$DAMUS<\/a> token you have been scammed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Damus\u26a1\ufe0f (@damusapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damusapp\/status\/1621533861581824001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abDamus has no token and will never have a token. If you bought a DAMUS token, you have been scammed\u00bb, \u2014 is the project\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Damus positions itself as a user-controlled social network. The app is built on the decentralized network <span data-descr=\"Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays \u2014 Notes and other materials transmitted by relays\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Nostr<\/span>, which enables end-to-end sharing of private messages without servers via relays.<\/p>\n<p>Since its February 1 launch, Damus has risen to the top 10 free apps in the US App Store. On the eve of the release, the developers were backed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who donated 14 BTC to the project.<\/p>\n<p>As reported at the end of 2022, Andre Cronje, who joined the Fantom Foundation&#8217;s board of directors, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/andre-cronje-outlines-plans-for-fantom-platform-development\">plans to monetize gas<\/a> for developers of <span data-descr=\"decentralized applications\" class=\"old_tooltip\">dapps<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently launched decentralized social network Damus announced the addition of a content-monetisation feature that would allow users to earn satoshis for viewing posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1642,1154,465],"class_list":["post-73733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-content-monetization","tag-crimes","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73735,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733\/revisions\/73735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}