When the world was enthralled by the alien mummy hoax out of Mexico City a few months back, ResearchHub co-founder Patrick Joyce — alongside other ResearchHub insiders — quickly put up a total of 42,500 ResearchCoins (RSC) for anyone who would run tests on purported DNA samples of the “bodies.”

The crypto bounties, together worth $660 at the time but $7,400 today thanks to a recent 1,000% pump, were available days before local doctors ran lab tests on the supposed specimens. 

Those tests didn’t really say much. Just that the skeleton was complete and hadn’t been assembled by piecing together multiple remains.

On ResearchHub, however, someone found the DNA samples were…

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