While convergent curve has the negative side effect of hurting lower payout posts, it's necessary for the intended consequence of bringing all profitable behavior into light. If you attempt to circumvent it, you're putting yourself at greater exposure to downvotes, and it comes at the cost of an honest distribution of votes by intentionally funneling votes into one post to beat the curve.

You've also described precisely an elaborate vote selling scheme.

Money that someone has paid going into a pool that leases SP to vote on posts authored by an account nominated by the initial person who paid the money. This is content indifferent voting. There's really no other way to look at it.

White/blacklists/standards don't do anything in a vote selling market. They're either just empty virtue signalling so they don't do anything, or they actually raise standards and in doing so, get out competed by those who don't. Bid bots like the one you mentioned understand this perfectly well.

Whether you know it or not, you're part of a scheme that's undermining honest curation here.