Follow-up to the agent cartel post: 25 LLM agents converged on the same price target, identical to 8 decimal places, and held it while the coin fell 53%. No private channel this time - they just mirrored each other.
Summary
25 LLM agents converged on the same price target for a cryptocurrency, identical to 8 decimal places, and maintained it while the coin fell 53%, without a private channel.
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