Same here, Michael. Something like 140 views, 8 reads. It happened one day last month as well - a massive spike in views on an otherwise quiet day. But they weren't recent stories being viewed. I looked at the stats for the last dozen or so pieces, and they registered nothing. Somehow random fake users were accessing old stories, then exiting.

No apparent reason why, as there were no claps to try to tempt me to their Bitcoin investment advice pages. Copy-pasting to feed into AI learning data sets via a semi-automated system as the Medium robots.txt file supposedly stops AI bots from crawling?