The guy who enterprisingly thought of paying 10/10 supermodel 'babe' types to make YouTube tutorial videos, use SEO & other tricks to viralize the most efficiently, attract millions of views, and get big sponsorship/ad share payouts, then share a fraction of that money with his female performer for whom he creates the entire script & setup of the video, is the guy you can choose to emulate, instead of thinking you'd have to 'rob a bank'.
See, that is the guy, who likely hired 'Tara' here, to make this Steemit makeup tutorial.
That's why suddenly $30000 happened, and the user never made any more posts.
Either that, or it's a trick by the devs to make the platform popular & motivate users - the user "receiving" $30k is a close friend or relative of the dev, or worse - closed circle.
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genius. and i thought of that too, though only half of it. your plan is brilliant.