# @0xBalloonLover: most crypto usage metrics are extremely cheap and easy to fake

Source: https://x.com/0xBalloonLover/status/1958877207108964824
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/0xBalloonLover-most-crypto-usage-metrics-are-extremely-cheap-and-easy-to-fake?index=0x68a86d358603a9ffc284c4e5a9ed5bea721f9a81f9dd0ee5e9ad1af4df201c08374c74cc
Submitted by tim on 2025-08-22 UTC, 13 upvotes, 1 comment

most crypto usage metrics are extremely cheap and easy to fake

this incentivizes keeping core metrics close to the chest—even the knowledge that a number is being looked at means it may be manipulated

## Comments

**tim**: Check out this article from last week from Naomi on the perils of quantification: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-perils-of-quantification?index=0x689e33052e8ec149fccda10ba004349f57c363ef13201b408f34ffdc03d5da2293cf8edc