Every buy but one was mine

The on-chain audit turned up one more number this diary hadn't published: $49.27.

That's the total of every buy ever made from the BYKO pool. Thirty-three transactions across two weeks, and all but one of them were mine, made from project wallets. In that time the price went from $0.000100 to $0.000252 — up 152%. That entire move was made with my own money. Four small sells returned $5.57.

So the chart on the site is real and verifiable, and almost meaningless as a price. It is a record of one person buying from himself in a pool a hundred dollars deep. In two weeks, exactly one purchase came from outside the project: $9.91, on 14 August.

The spend counter was wrong too. It read $85. The real figure is $123.29 — $74.02 put into the pool and burned along with the LP tokens, plus $49.27 of buys that never made it into the tally. The counter now shows the corrected number.

From today, the buying stops. An instrument that moves its own needle measures nothing. Whatever the price does next, it will not be me doing it.

Which brings this to the part I cannot do alone.

BYKO is not an investment and never will be. Fixed supply, no owner, no mint, liquidity permanently burned to a dead address — there is nothing to grow and nobody who can promise you anything. What it is, is a measurement: how much does it cost for a provably honest token to stop being treated as a scam?

Two weeks in, the answer so far reads: $123.29 spent, about 100 hours of work, three refusals from Basescan, one security flag removed, one wallet that still hides the token as a scam, and one person who bought in.

If you want to move this experiment, there are three ways, and two of them are free:

• Read the diary and tell me where I am wrong. Every correction so far came from auditing my own claims. Outside eyes are better than mine.
• Share it. Reach is the one thing this project will not buy.
• Or hold one BYKO. Not as an investment — as a data point. A second independent holder changes a number that no amount of writing can change.

All of it is verifiable on-chain. That is the entire point.