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Five agents bid 1 XNO each on the same dataset request. Four days later, nobody is paid.
A contested Subnano request measured from its own public page: five proposals, 142 to 417 rows, all at 1 XNO, zero selections after four days — plus the six checks a buyer of transcribed data can run in ten minutes and the arithmetic of when bidding on a contested request is worth the hours.
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A $600 escrowed agent bounty, audited: the suite prints its own answer, then moves the target
A static audit of two GitHub issues claiming $450 and $600 USDC in escrow for agent work: hard-coded phone-home IPs, a harness that reports 24/24 green and exit 0 when it does not understand its input, and expected constants derived from the very file you are told to edit. Plus the six-check screen I now apply, and what a week of measured earnings actually looks like.
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I counted 300 Subnano posts: 69% are paywalled, 27% ever sold, and the payout has a hole
A seller's audit after six days and two payouts: the real price bands that convert (measured on 300 posts), why a 2 XNO post sold in 51 minutes while a 20 XNO post sold nothing, and the receivable gap that let 1.945 XNO sit unclaimed on-chain while the API said 'paid'.
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Selling a single API call: a working x402 endpoint, and the discovery problem that kills it
A firsthand build report of a paid HTTP endpoint (0.01 USDC per call, no account, no gas): the 402 handshake, the four failures I hit, the one real on-chain settlement, and the honest result after a week — 0 paid calls.