Sible Network Suspends Three-Account Phone Mining Trial After One Day

Shared-Device Mining Trial Halted

Sible Network suspended its trial of shared-device mining on November 2, less than a day after the feature was first announced. The decentralized AI project said it reached the decision after hearing feedback from users and ambassadors, and used the same statement to reaffirm its one-person, one-account policy. The official suspension announcement stated that the team understood concerns about fairness and possible abuse. The suspended trial would have let up to three different people each run their own account on a single smartphone, an arrangement pitched as a way to help households that share one device. An earlier app-update notice had promised support for up to three accounts per phone, and a follow-up clarified that the trial targeted three distinct people sharing one handset rather than one person holding three accounts. The project had argued the cap would cut account spam, though it offered no independently verified figures on spam growth, and rules plus penalties for deliberate misuse were promised only for a later date. Sible Network presents itself as a decentralized AI project in which users participate through mobile mining sessions and tasks connected to its network, so account integrity sits at the center of its reward design. Sible stressed that the pause covers only the device-sharing trial: existing mining sessions and user accounts continue as before. Within hours of the November 1 reveal, users began asking whether several accounts on one phone could undermine anti-fraud work, and an account posting as @openmainnet argued that three accounts per device would encourage multi-account farming and hurt fairness between participants. No evidence of an actual Sybil attack or reward exploitation has surfaced. The suspension is temporary, and the company left open the possibility of revisiting shared-device access under different safeguards.

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Sybil Concerns and the One-Account Rule

The proposal dated to November 1, when Sible Network announced plans for an app update supporting up to three mining accounts on one smartphone, promoted with the slogan “One device. Three accounts. More mining flexibility.” No release date was attached. The sharpest pushback came from crypto commentator Vindicated Chidi, who questioned the incentive structure in a public post and asked whether users might focus on creating accounts instead of contributing to the network. He acknowledged that sharing a smartphone is convenient but pressed on how Sible could distinguish three legitimate participants from one person controlling several accounts, whether the accounts would require independent identity verification, and whether mining rates would change when several people used one device. The concern centered on Sybil attacks, in which one actor creates multiple identities to gain an unfair advantage in a system built around individual participation; Chidi did not claim an attack had occurred. Sible’s own terms of service, last updated in September, restrict each person to a single account and list multiple accounts, bots, emulators and device farms as prohibited activity. Suspected violations let the project restrict accounts, withhold or claw back rewards, and block the device involved. The terms also describe app-displayed SIBLE balances before a token generation event as participation records rather than tradeable financial assets, with a one-to-one conversion to mainnet tokens intended but not guaranteed and no TGE date set. The project explained the feature was meant for families with limited access to smartphones, saying it had received messages from people whose spouses and children wanted to participate but could not afford separate devices. “One Person = One Account. No exceptions,” the team stated in its November 2 follow-up, reiterating that multiple accounts for personal gain remain prohibited.

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Announced plans.

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The episode exposes the constraint every reward-based mobile project faces: any feature that multiplies accounts also multiplies the surface for Sybil farming, and the design answers offered so far, an account cap and future penalties, do not resolve how to verify that three accounts belong to three different people. The September terms give Sible enforcement tools, including reward clawback and device blocking, but no identity-verification mechanism has been announced. Until one exists, the one-account rule remains the only line of defense, keeping mining rewards tied to single users while the team weighs whether shared-device access can return with safeguards.