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@big_duca

@AwakenTax. I wear Birkenstocks and prompt a lot. SPC / zfellows / Brown / other stuff. The DMs here suck... so email me.

👉 가입일 Temmuz 2019
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Duca
Duca@big_duca·
Guys it's okay. No reason to be scared 😂 My life mission to make crypto taxes not suck. Sat: koinly founder scraping our tutorial Sun: cointracker bullying me in the comments Mon: tokentax adds recaptchas to make it hard to switch to Awaken. These tactics don't win. Best product does. And I was coding til 2am last night IDK about you.
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Duca@big_duca·
@0xcryptotax Separately I do find it weird how a person with no technical skills was auditing our tech platform. I remember writing up docs on our technical implementation and I am 100% sure the person who wrote our SOC 2 report has never written code.
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Cameron 🧉 (tax/acc)
Cameron 🧉 (tax/acc)@0xcryptotax·
@big_duca SOC2 is a lot sexier than you think. Cannot wait for a litany of vibe coded fin apps just fall so hard on their faces. Who was sketch?
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Duca@big_duca·
Man we really have nothing better to talk about then… Checks notes… Sketchy practices committed by one of the most boring businesses on the planet (SOC 2 compliance). This might be the only topic even more boring than taxes.
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Duca@big_duca·
@Bfaviero @TrustVanta I can’t believe I renewed my subscription a month ago with delve. Rip me, $14k down the drain lol. The advice was always a lil iffy. We paid $20k for a real pentest when they recommended going to a website that did a crap report for $20 lol
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Bruno Faviero
Bruno Faviero@Bfaviero·
Glad we used @TrustVanta
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Ryan@ohryansbelt

Delve, a YC-backed compliance startup that raised $32 million, has been accused of systematically faking SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance reports for hundreds of clients. According to a detailed Substack investigation by DeepDelver, a leaked Google spreadsheet containing links to hundreds of confidential draft audit reports revealed that Delve generates auditor conclusions before any auditor reviews evidence, uses the same template across 99.8% of reports, and relies on Indian certification mills operating through empty US shells instead of the "US-based CPA firms" they advertise. Here's the breakdown: > 493 out of 494 leaked SOC 2 reports allegedly contain identical boilerplate text, including the same grammatical errors and nonsensical sentences, with only a company name, logo, org chart, and signature swapped in > Auditor conclusions and test procedures are reportedly pre-written in draft reports before clients even provide their company description, which would violate AICPA independence rules requiring auditors to independently design tests and form conclusions > All 259 Type II reports claim zero security incidents, zero personnel changes, zero customer terminations, and zero cyber incidents during the observation period, with identical "unable to test" conclusions across every client > Delve's "US-based auditors" are actually Accorp and Gradient, described as Indian certification mills operating through US shell entities. 99%+ of clients reportedly went through one of these two firms over the past 6 months > The platform allegedly publishes fully populated trust pages claiming vulnerability scanning, pentesting, and data recovery simulations before any compliance work has been done > Delve pre-fabricates board meeting minutes, risk assessments, security incident simulations, and employee evidence that clients can adopt with a single click, according to the author > Most "integrations" are just containers for manual screenshots with no actual API connections. The author describes the platform as a "SOC 2 template pack with a thin SaaS wrapper" > When the leak was exposed, CEO Karun Kaushik emailed clients calling the allegations "falsified claims" from an "AI-generated email" and stated no sensitive data was accessed, while the reports themselves contained private signatures and confidential architecture diagrams > Companies relying on these reports could face criminal liability under HIPAA and fines up to 4% of global revenue under GDPR for compliance violations they believed were resolved > When clients threaten to leave, Delve reportedly pairs them with an external vCISO for manual off-platform work, which the author argues proves their own platform can't deliver real compliance > Delve's sales price dropped from $15,000 to $6,000 with ISO 27001 and a penetration test thrown in when a client mentioned considering a competitor

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Duca@big_duca·
So, Cluely spent like $140,000 on a launch video. But unfortunately, my startup doesn’t do $7M of ARR. So I asked my friends: what could we do for $140? So, if you’re one of the millions of crypto users who doesn’t use Awaken… Consider switching to us:
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Cameron 🧉 (tax/acc)
Cameron 🧉 (tax/acc)@0xcryptotax·
@big_duca @Duffaluffaguss But you could narc if you wanted to be. You could just sail off, be in witness protection, and never have to deal with tax again. (I'm one of those to that fix broken defi income, so thanks for the button).
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Duca@big_duca·
It’s not so easy bc these same buttons are used by people to fix broken DeFi income given it’s impossible to handle all of it. Ultimately we’re a tool. You can use quickbooks incorrectly to cook books (shoutout FTX). Or hire someone to use it for you who knows how. Ultimately for a lot of people they just don’t care tho they just wanna pay a couple hundred bucks and call it a day. We all are just pawns of what the market wants, we don’t decide what it wants.
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Cameron 🧉 (tax/acc)
Cameron 🧉 (tax/acc)@0xcryptotax·
That's the problem. They don't know what they don't know. Had an Awaken user today where we're doing a suss check miraculously zero'd out all their income, but didn't update the cost basis, effectively double dipping. He got the benefit of no income, but an increased basis exacerbating the losses. Not sure if we should be giving AK's to the monkeys Duca. If only @big_duca could pull stats on this where cost basis for a given fee claim =/= income in a user's account....
GIF
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Lawyered
Lawyered@BitGrateful·
@big_duca A popup that says “you survived X cycles you fucking beast”
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Duca@big_duca·
I learn from other industries. Yesterday, I went clothing shopping. The stylist told me: “Hmm, let me find a something that can fit nicely on a big upper body like yours” I was sold immediately. So, I’ve been trying to apply this to Awaken. But “my my, I have never seen a P&L this red before” Doesn’t have the same ring.
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Duca@big_duca·
@JamesonCamp interesting I think I'm paying a few hundred bucks a month for contentful for CMS. I want to switch but also there isn't a lot of ROI in saving a few grand a year so I just let them keep charging me.
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James Camp 🛠,🛠
James Camp 🛠,🛠@JamesonCamp·
Just canceled ClickFunnels, Circle, Webflow, and Notion in the same month $600+ month in SaaS. Gone Spent probably $20k+ on these tools over the years. Was loyal to all of them Manus builds a better funnel in 20 minutes than what I spent hours dragging and dropping in CF. Better design. Better copy. Actually understands the offer SaaS isn't dead. Most people will use these tools forever But there's a growing group of us in this corner of the internet quietly canceling everything and rebuilding it with AI in an afternoon Kinda wild to mass cancel tools I used to think were essential...
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Duca@big_duca·
One day I woke up. And all the sudden Bernie Sanders is just all over my feed.
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Duca@big_duca·
@_watzon well done then. I prefer the opposite tho most gains in life are from focusing on a small group of people and you have finite time/focus. but if free is your main funnel for paid maybe makes sense
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Watzon@_watzon·
@big_duca About 20% of my active users have paid accounts, which is actually really high for freemium
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Duca@big_duca·
Only idiots offer free versions of their products. Awaken has a free version. Problem is the people attracted to that are often horrible. Our rudest users are always the ones who pay us the least. It’s amazing how consistent it is.
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Duca@big_duca·
@_watzon how much $$ is hitting you bank tho? people love to give feedback, they hate to part with their money
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Watzon@_watzon·
@big_duca I wholeheartedly disagree. I have a SaaS with a very generous free tier, and in return I have gotten a treasure trove of user feedback, bug reports, and upgrades to a paid plan. I think whether or not a free tier makes sense is highly dependent on your target user.
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Lefteris Karapetsas
Lefteris Karapetsas@LefterisJP·
Hey hey hey we also offer a free version and I had an IQ test recently! And yes it's the same for rotki. Demanding so much as free users but always promising they will pay later. But moving goal posts. I will definitely pay when you do X. Oh you did X, good but now I won't pay if you don't do Y. Oh you did Y ... well good I may pay only if you do Z (where Z is a complete rewrite of the app which can make coffee, report taxes automatically in any jurisdiction, leak no data to anything and do it all in lightning speed).
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Duca@big_duca·
@preTrillionaire @OREsupply @AwakenTax @summ_app gotta read my full message my dood there is no ROI for us integrating them unless they recommend us to their users bc none of our current users use them. we focus on building for our current users, almost none use gate.
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Duca@big_duca·
@nagakingg sir I'd never sell. i'm going for 3 comma club
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nagaking@nagakingg·
@big_duca Your software is the only one I've used that even attempts to make sense, to be honest. They should just buy you and integrate your system TBH
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Duca@big_duca·
My guess is Coinbase (and most CEX) sent out millions of incorrect tax forms this year. I’ve looked at 100s of 1099-DAs this year. When I close my eyes, they haunt me. I have seen: > incorrect proceeds on sent assets (being counted as sales) > simple USD fiat trades for some users having incorrect proceeds > so much more BS Errors in the root DAs (not to mention we have bugs bc no one gave them to us ahead of time). All of these compound to weird results that make reconciling challenging. It’s gonna be a painful couple of years. Fuck the gov for doing this.
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