I ran a paid API on the x402 rail for a month. 962 requests from 962 distinct IPs. Every single one a crawler. Paid calls: 0.
The access log nobody posts, and why a listing is not a customer:
https://subnano.me/@pyfile/i-ran-a-paid-api-on-the-x402-rail-for-a-month-962-crawlers-zero-buyers
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