If anyone is interested, this is the collection that seems to be all the rage right now:
https://magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/nodemonkesThe floor price is currently >0.4 BTC for them and 45.5 BTC in trading volume over the last 24 hours

insanity. No way it will last.
how do you even know all of that is real. maybe most of it is from the same person with different bitcoin addresses.

that's how i think is the recognized way of jumpstarting an nft project is the owner steps in and makes a bunch of fake purchases to get people looking that way. not saying this one in particular but i think alot of people do that. project owners that is. it costs them fees but not much else.