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- · reviewed
About this date
The thread's visible date/time and any Last edited note are preserved on each direct x.com screenshot. Times are displayed at UTC+8; current edit times are not treated as original publication times.
Summary
Protos reports that Pump.fun's promotion repeated an unverified claim that Kimchi made over $40M trading TRUMP. Bubblemaps' thread says that claim began as an unverified 2025 rumour. It reports about $6M in TRUMP profit for one wallet it traced, and says another address may exist.
What the sources support
The analyst's own thread, posts 1/ to 4/, inspected directly on x.com, plus two reports that cite it. Earlier third-party capture records remain in the source history.
- What was publicly traceable to Bubblemaps: about $6M (post 3/).
- That Bubblemaps describes the $40M figure as an unverified 2025 rumour (post 2/).
What remains unresolved
- Kimchi's total trading results. Limited visibility into some wallets does not show what happened in all of them.
Limits of this receipt
- Bubblemaps itself says its trace shows only part of the connections.
The screenshots
Bubblemaps: “Kimchi didn't make $40M on $TRUMP” (thread 1/)
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The opening post of Bubblemaps' thread, inspected directly on x.com. Posts 2/ to 4/ follow separately. Direct x.com screenshot.
- Source
- S41 x.com
- Post date shown
- 6:39 PM · Oct 22, 2026
- Screenshot taken
Edits & limits
What UNREPOST changed:
- Cropped to the target post, preserving its text, visible attachments and date/time line; unrelated replies, side panels and lower reply-filter controls omitted.
- Photographs of people, including portrait avatars where present, covered with visible labelled boxes.
- Provenance strips give x.com, capture UTC, sign-in state, displayed date/time and the meaning of each redaction label.
Limits:
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- Wallet clustering is Bubblemaps' analysis, and its trace is partial by its own account.
Bubblemaps 2/: “The rumor started back in 2025”
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Bubblemaps' account of where the $40M figure came from. The wallet screenshot is the kind of image the rumour circulated with; it is not Bubblemaps' own trace. Direct x.com screenshot.
- Source
- S44 x.com
- Post date shown
- 6:39 PM · Oct 22, 2026
- Screenshot taken
Edits & limits
What UNREPOST changed:
- Cropped to the target post, preserving its text, visible attachments and date/time line; unrelated replies, side panels and lower reply-filter controls omitted.
- Photographs of people, including portrait avatars where present, covered with visible labelled boxes.
- Provenance strips give x.com, capture UTC, sign-in state, displayed date/time and the meaning of each redaction label.
Limits:
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- The wallet balance shown is a screenshot inside Bubblemaps' post. UNREPOST has not identified the wallet or checked the figure.
Bubblemaps 3/: “Actual $TRUMP profit: $6M”
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The post that gives the ~$6M figure. The attached April 2024 post is how Bubblemaps links the original KIMCHI token to Kimchi's account. Direct x.com screenshot.
- Source
- S45 x.com
- Post date shown
- 6:39 PM · Oct 22, 2026
- Screenshot taken
Edits & limits
What UNREPOST changed:
- Cropped to the target post, preserving its text, visible attachments and date/time line; unrelated replies, side panels and lower reply-filter controls omitted.
- Photographs of people, including portrait avatars where present, covered with visible labelled boxes.
- Provenance strips give x.com, capture UTC, sign-in state, displayed date/time and the meaning of each redaction label.
Limits:
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- Wallet clustering is Bubblemaps' analysis. It is not proof of who owns a wallet.
Bubblemaps 4/: “This trace only shows a fraction”
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Bubblemaps' own limit on its trace, in the closing post of the thread. Direct x.com screenshot.
- Source
- S46 x.com
- Post date shown
- 6:39 PM · Oct 22, 2026
- Screenshot taken
Edits & limits
What UNREPOST changed:
- Cropped to the target post, preserving its text, visible attachments and date/time line; unrelated replies, side panels and lower reply-filter controls omitted.
- Photographs of people, including portrait avatars where present, covered with visible labelled boxes.
- Provenance strips give x.com, capture UTC, sign-in state, displayed date/time and the meaning of each redaction label.
Limits:
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- The diagram's addresses are shortened. UNREPOST has not traced them.
All images: image archive.
Identifiers
- X status (1/)
- 2113218662756966646
- X status (2/)
- 2113218681933373667
- X status (3/)
- 2113218696873447561
- X status (4/)
- 2113218710978928859
Sources
- This post states the conclusion and shows a wallet diagram. The supporting posts are S19.
- Wallet clustering is analysis. It is not proof of who owns a wallet.
- Bubblemaps says its trace shows only part of the connections, and that another address with TRUMP profits may exist.
- Wallet clustering is analysis. It is not proof of who owns a wallet.
- The capture notes post 3/ was edited on X, with one earlier version.
- Market figures such as $14M, about $600,000 and about $183,000 are reported without timestamps, apart from the article date.
- Competing explanations come from named X users. Protos does not settle them.
- Boycott calls are participants' positions. The article does not measure how many people took part or what effect it had.
- The '474 days since an airdrop was teased' count is not tied to a dated original statement in the article, so UNREPOST does not show a delay counter.
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- Wallet clustering is Bubblemaps' analysis, and its trace is partial by its own account.
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- The wallet balance shown is a screenshot inside Bubblemaps' post. UNREPOST has not identified the wallet or checked the figure.
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- Wallet clustering is Bubblemaps' analysis. It is not proof of who owns a wallet.
- A screenshot records what X displayed at capture time, not whether the author's claims are true.
- A current screenshot does not authenticate earlier edits, deleted originals or screenshots attached by another author.
- The diagram's addresses are shortened. UNREPOST has not traced them.
Responses, rebuttals & corrections
No response from the people or companies discussed was located as of the cutoff. That does not mean none exists. Send one.
Correction C-0001 ·
The Bubblemaps thread post 1/ (“Kimchi didn't make $40M on $TRUMP”) is X status 2113218662756966646. Source S16, receipt R-B09 and the provenance strip on its screenshot gave 2113218681933373667, which is post 2/.
Found while rechecking captures on 28 October 2026: the capture service's page for each ID shows which post it is. The screenshot itself was correct; only its label was wrong. Post 2/ is now recorded under its own ID in S19.
X status 2113218681933373667 (thread 1/)
Correction C-0002 ·
Updated source-access and image-acquisition descriptions after a direct x.com recheck. Current receipt wording now identifies the inspected original posts, while deleted originals remain uninspected and analyst/author claims retain their limits.
A signed-in normal browser made the current post views available on 28 October 2026. Earlier capture-service/embed records and their access history are preserved; this does not authenticate deleted originals or prove the posts' allegations.
R-A06.supportSummary: "Two independent news reports (different origin groups) plus the complaint itself."
R-B01.summary: "Protos reports that Kimchi and Pump.fun worked together on the 'Pill Your Friends' campaign, and that Alon Cohen called Kimchi 'the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity'. A capture of Alon's 20 October post shows similar language and says Kimchi would help set creative direction."
R-B01.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 20 October 2026, 23:19 UTC. That time is derived from the ID, not displayed by an original we inspected."
R-B01.supportSummary: "A third-party capture of the post (the original returned HTTP 402) and Protos's account."
R-B01.limitations: ["The original post was not inspected. A capture service supplied the text."]
R-B03.limitations: ["UNREPOST has not seen the deleted posts. They are not presented as inspected originals.","No capture of Kimchi's QR-code post or of Alon's repost was located, so neither is pictured. The poster image shown comes from a third party's refund demand (S15).","A repost and its removal do not by themselves show coordination, intent, wallet ownership or profit."]
R-B04.limitations: ["Market cap is not cash stolen, money deposited or traders' realised losses.","The Lookonchain figures are secondary: the original post was not inspected (S17)."]
R-B05.limitations: ["The Lookonchain original was not inspected (S17).","This estimate must not be combined with Bitquery's figure for the separate 20 October token (R-B02)."]
R-B06.summary: "A captured post by @tontheneko asks Alon to refund people who lost money on the coin he reposted, arguing that he should have checked it first. crypto.news reports this demand as an allegation and says it found no verified refund arrangement."
R-B06.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 22 October 2026, 20:54 UTC. That time is derived from the ID. The capture was taken 23 October, 01:01:31 UTC."
R-B06.supportSummary: "A capture of the demand and a news report that describes it."
R-B07.supportSummary: "Several reports describing competing explanations, with no attributable confirmation."
R-B08.supportSummary: "Two reporting origins: 99Bitcoins, with its two syndications counted once, and Protos."
R-B09.eventDateNote: "The thread's status IDs decode to 22 October 2026, 10:39 UTC. That time is derived. Post 1/ was captured 23 October, 00:43:41 UTC; posts 2/ to 4/ on 26 October, 20:03:32 UTC."
R-B09.supportSummary: "The analyst's own thread, posts 1/ to 4/, via captures, and two reports that cite it."
R-C01.supportSummary: "One news report linking several participants' posts."
R-C02.supportSummary: "A single news report."
R-C03.summary: "A capture of Alon's post shows him announcing 'the BIGGEST competition we've ever hosted on the Pumpfun app': $2.5M for the top three Squads by PnL over two weeks. Per the capture, the quoted Pump.fun post set the sign-up deadline at Monday, 26 October. Protos reports that critics say the format favours large KOL groups."
R-C03.supportSummary: "A third-party capture of the announcement and a news report."
R-C03.supports: ["The announced prize structure and dates, as captured."]
R-C03.unresolved: ["The terms as finally run. The capture notes the post was later edited."]
R-C03.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 23 October 2026, 15:05 UTC. That time is derived. The capture was taken 24 October, 00:36:32 UTC."
Related receipts
Revision history
| Revision | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Added a Settings choice between redacted and original post screenshots without redactions. The default remains redacted; capture dates, source attribution and claim limitations are unchanged. Release 2026.10.29-r6. | |
| 4 | Replaced linked capture-service/embed images with reviewed direct x.com screenshots; added sources S41, S44, S45, S46. Full text, attachments, visible timestamps and labelled redactions were checked. Earlier sources and revisions remain available; claim limitations are preserved. Release 2026.10.28-r5. | |
| 3 | Corrected the status ID of Bubblemaps post 1/ (C-0001). Added captures of posts 2/ to 4/ (new source S19), found on a recheck of failed captures. Release 2026.10.28-r3. | |
| 2 | Added a screenshot of the captured Bubblemaps post (photo of a person omitted, marked). Release 2026.10.28-r2. | |
| 1 | First publication in release 2026.10.28-r1. |