Sergej Kotliar

@jackmallers Wow! 😍 congrats!!!

@WalkerAmerica Crazy! Glad everyone’s ok ❤️

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

@BitcoinErrorLog Congrats! 💪 Onwards!

There won't be any big headlines. And Bitcoiners won't appreciate this as much as they should. But Synonym just secured continued funding from Tether and I feel like I could cry I am so happy. Thank you so much @paoloardoino for belieiving in us!

@BitcoinErrorLog @francispouliot_ 😳🙏

@francispouliot_ @ziggamon :)

Name a person that has done more for Bitcoin merchant adoption, ever, in history?

@roy_breez 😂💯

This is something we did ~6 years ago...

Consider that the dumbest people you know are repeatedly being told "You're absolutely right!" by LLMs.

Oh just an autonomous agent integrated Bitrefill into its' own code base using our CLI after being pitched to do so over twitter. 🤯 What a time to be alive...

@uxerik_ I doubt it’s personal. It’s just humanoid form processors processing forms. They don’t care if you win or lose. Sometimes you can get lucky and get a real human human, they exist in the system, but it’s a roll of the dice. But even if you win, then what?

@ziggamon thanks man. i guess that’s what they want. to create enough misery so non swedes self deport. maybe i won’t stay. but i’m too american to let them tread on me. it offends my sense of justice. i have to fight until the end. on national day the law goes into effect.

the last few weeks have been the most draining of my life. i’m under full attack from the swedish government. they’ve done everything to break me. they deliberately railroaded the migration agency in order to reduce citizenship applications. they’re steamrolling new laws that will rug pull my pending application. in the future they’re planning to revoke permanent residency (which i’m currently one). the whole thing has taken a real toll on me. it’s hard to focus and sleep. i’ve done nothing wrong. i was invited to this country to work. i’ve always worked. last year i started my own business, and it’s going well enough that i got hit with a 20% wealth tax. i know life is unfair, but i’ve never experienced anything like this. why are they coming after me like this? i’m deeply unhappy, but i will not let them break me.

@gajesh @bitrefill Let’s sync over dm!

@ziggamon @bitrefill would love to chat

has anyone built an easy solution for agents to get prepaid cards?

@sytaylor What about fraud? How will merchants/psps transition from a world where robot visitors are dangerous to a world where some robot visitors are desired customers but others are still dangerous

We're back up. Mostly. We expect everything to be back to normal within a couple of days. You can check live updates on what's working now here: bitrefill.com/service Bitrefill was the target of a breach from a high-profile hacker group. As soon as our team realized an attack was ongoing, we took the website and app down, and since then we have been working 24/7 to get the site back up in a safe way, which we are now doing. We’ve gotten help from top cybersecurity experts, onchain analytics and law enforcement, to understand what happened and how. We have a pretty clear image of that (hello 🇰🇵) and will publish more information about what happened as soon as we have time to write it all up. TL;DR: User gift cards, store credits, KYC info are unharmed. Bitrefill took a hit, our customers did not. Again, thanks for your patience and your continued trust. We’ll be back to our full self shortly.

@bitrefill Our team is on it and already progressed a lot. We're prioritizing safety when restoring the service. We'll continue to communicate progress and will give an ETA as soon as we know. Appreciate everyone bearing with us.

We are working very hard to get Bitrefill back up and want to keep you updated! We’ve put together an FAQ about the current status of Bitrefill services. We will continue updating it as new information becomes available. Our team is working around the clock to resolve the situation and restore full functionality as quickly as possible. We truly appreciate your patience and support. FAQ Link: Bitrefill.com

@PPQdotAI @openclaw Can the lobsters pay their own bills?

Anthropic and Google are now banning accounts of users who are using their AI subscription with @openclaw. AutoClaw via PPQ is the answer! ppq.ai/blog/using-aut…

From each according to their skills, to each according to their .md file

@stacy_muur @stripe @base How do you track the number of transactions? What are the biggest known sources of transactions?

Agreed: x402 is one of the most underrated infra play in crypto rn • 161M+ transactions processed • $43.51M total volume • On Base: 123.7M txs, $36.72M, 398K buyers • On Solana: 37.4M txs, $6.78M, 16K buyers • @stripe launched x402 on @base With the Agentic Economy rising this year, AI agents need two things to operate autonomously: payments and trust. x402 solves payments: APIs can now charge agents directly. Agent requests access → server responds with price + wallet → agent pays in USDC → instant access. ERC-8004 solves trust. x402 handles the payment rails. ERC-8004 handles who to trust. Together, they create a closed-loop economy where machines pay machines based on verifiable reputation.

@benthecarman @nickslaney We have and are building more but in this case it went through the UI. Was lots of errors and bugs along the way but it got the job done in the end.

@ziggamon @nickslaney Have you guys done any ai friendly integrations in bitrefill or did it just navigate the UI?

We've been using npx @moneydevkit/agent-wallet init No skills required just tell your agent and start sending / receiving bitcoin We've had agents paying agents for two weeks now :)

@lopp Nothing new under the sun in that regard. You'd keep the hot wallet small and send off larger funds one way to cold storage elsewhere.

It has long been theorized that AI agents will prefer to use cryptocurrency to manage their finances. It's sensible due to the permissionless, KYC-free nature of these protocols. However, it will pose a massive security challenge because clankers can't control cold storage keys.

Internet money!