Richard | ISC

@CryptoCyberia @GregNotSure The S5 was barely waterproof. Nothing compared to today. The EU is fighting a weird war here. They will lose long term as only the biggest manufacturer will bother. 10 years later people will wonder why they have no choices in products.

@GregNotSure respectfully, hell no. There is no good reason we can't use something like this again.

>must still be replaceable by independent professionals if not directly by the user NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AHHHHHHHHHH WHY WHY WHY NOOOOOO You can make a water proof phone with rubber seals around the battery cover. It has been done before. This is SO lame.

@burger606 Respect

@LCSlates @stripe They deserve worst than that but, hats probably more reasonable given you are trying to run a business here

@Richard_ISC @stripe haha, I truly thought about doing this... and then decided against it. Something like this.

Well so much for that. Already lost. The system is utterly fucked and broken. @stripe 48-page evidence package. Easy to read, Table of contents, filled with visuals (a junior bank employee could easily understand everything). The customer used the product for 49 days, was logged in 13 hours before filing the chargeback, then canceled the subscription 5 hours after the dispute was already filed. *Technically they are still ACTIVE. Here's everything we submitted: PAYMENT INTEGRITY • AVS postal-code check: PASS • CVC check: PASS • Stripe Radar score: Normal (22 / low risk) • Auth success rate on customer email: 100% • Card brand, last-4, fingerprint, exp, billing ZIP all confirmed by issuer CUSTOMER USE POST-CHARGE • 35 distinct active days in 49 days • 393 authenticated session-refresh events • 17 long-form SEO articles generated • 18 AI images generated • 3 WordPress sites configured (admin credentials added) • 4 Google accounts authenticated via OAuth • Customer added their own paid OpenAI API key (BYOK) • 4 team members added TIMING • 49 days between charge and dispute • Logged into the dashboard 13 hours BEFORE filing the chargeback • Canceled the subscription 5 hours AFTER the dispute was filed INDEPENDENT IP CORROBORATION • Stripe captured IP at checkout: Manchester, UK • Microsoft Clarity captured 22 of 38 sessions over 60 days: also Manchester, UK • Two unrelated 3rd parties placing the same person in the same city across payment + 60 days of authenticated use THE KICKER - THE CUSTOMER'S OWN PUBLIC WEBSITE CURRENTLY DEPENDS ON OUR PRIVATE CDN • Articles generated on his account are LIVE on his own public WordPress sites • Page source contains img tags pointing INSIDE our private R2 bucket • Last-Modified headers on those CDN files match the EXACT minute his account generated them • Currently fetched by every visitor to his website CRYPTOGRAPHIC IDENTITY CHAIN (Automattic / Gravatar) • Every WordPress author avatar = SHA-256(author email) • 3 of his sites, 3 perfect SHA-256 matches against the gmail addresses in our DB • Automattic has no relationship with us, the customer, or the bank • Effectively unforgeable email-to-WP-admin binding DOMAIN OWNERSHIP (third-party attestation) • Google Search Console verified ownership on 4 separate domains • Public WHOIS: 2 of his domains registered 9 SECONDS APART through the same registrar account • Both registered 5 MONTHS BEFORE he bought our subscription • Pre-existing content business, not a stolen-card test VISA CE 3.0 ELIGIBLE • Same payment credential had a $0.00 trial-start invoice marked "paid" 7 days before the disputed charge • Same customer, email, payment method, subscription • Exactly the prior-undisputed-transaction proof Visa CE 3.0 requires The chargeback dispute system is broken.

@LCSlates @stripe You can sue the user. If their message is accurate, its not up to them.

@droidbuilds It just works. Its light. Its compact. It charges by USB without fuss. Its energy efficient. It is more consistent than windows. Good battery life. Best trackpad. And I dont like Apple.

give me one good reason to buy a macbook apart from battery life

@aaalexhl @barrett_io They did the best thing for token holders given the situation. By far.

@barrett_io Why did you guys release a token then

Ranger Finance is winding down and I will be moving on. People who worked with us, built with us, and trusted us are not being made whole, and I want to be direct about what happened. Ranger took on more than it could sustain. As cash ran low, the founders put in as much personal capital that could be beared to keep the lights on while we worked toward a raise on MetaDAO. The raise was delayed, bills accumulated, and some of the team stayed on knowing they wouldn't be paid until capital came in. When the raise closed, we had two months of runway before the funds were returned. We used that window to pay people and vendors as equitably as we could, but it wasn't enough to cover everything. The liquidation of treasury was unanticipated and deeply impacted the budgeting decisions made for employees, vendors and growth. Then the Drift exploit hit hard, and it took out remaining momentum and personal capital to keep things moving. In hindsight, Ranger should have shut the doors earlier. When you're inside it and you can see a path, it's hard to make that call, that's not a defense, just personal honesty about wanting to make things work as a cofounder. The outcome is that people went unpaid. Vault users affected by the Drift exploit will receive Drift recovery tokens when the Drift team disperses them. To everyone who worked on Ranger and let us delay payment: I'm sorry. This isn't the ending any of us wanted. @ranger_finance will tweet more on the wind down process

@angeloinchina The US is already doing it. They call it sanctions. They just freeze the asset, and later on use it to pay for stuff you did that they didnt like.

Why would China invest in the US when the US could potentially seize Chinese investments in an environment where the US has become a rogue state disregarding international laws.

@8bitpenis FTX did lol

everyone wants solana foundation to kingmake them but who’s gonna kingmake solana foundation???

@Y40IFRQTTING 5 years later, "why is rent so expensive??"

Fix everything instantly button: Make it illegal to own a house you don't live in

@solflare your UI is getting worst and worst. This is the bottom option after clicking a coin on the wallet. "Send" is the main feature of a wallet. Not buy and sell.

@anza_xyz Ao SPL token is gone?

Introducing P-Token: an optimized rewrite of the SPL Token program for Solana, now live on mainnet. Token instructions are about 96% cheaper in compute, freeing 12-13% more block space for the network without altering block limits 🧵

@DemonZodd @drpeepee @kidonthephoenix Expected by who? The team who refused to pay you? The point of name and shame isnt to resolve your own situation, but to help others avoid it to begin with. Post like @drpeepee are 100% trying to leverage the public to help themselves.

@drpeepee @kidonthephoenix Very true about the expectations not to discuss. We’ve been bamboozled a few times and never felt as if calling them out would be worth the trouble or that the general public would back us in anyway.

wanted to provide a quick update - a pretty prominent project on solana has refused to pay our team and allegedly a significant number of other people inside of their co and outside of the ecosystem its hard to communicate how deeply this has affected our work. its had a debilitating impact on us for the last 3 months non-payment is a huge issue in crypto and the expectation is that agencies shouldn't discuss these things out in public i’ve given ample time for the team to respond and present solutions, but I’ve received no official plan of action at all. frankly, its put a large damper on our outlook, faith and forecast in the ecosystem. if you've been affected and know who im talking about, please feel free to DM

@drpeepee @iirfan Name and shame or ....

@vibhu @solana The topic is more about failure than anything else. Failure can be expensive... like pushing PYUSD.

Kingmaking every @solana app dropped in the replies 👇

@elonmusk Singapore! On the equator, business friendly, stable

SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports!

@adahstwt Traction

be honest... which domain instantly makes a startup feel more legit?👇 1) .ai 2) .com 3) .io 4) .app 5) .dev 6) .cloud 7) .sh

Its weird to me that the right is anti immigration while the left is pro immigration. Allowing people to come and go is allowing competition. On the other side, open borders is incompatible with socialists policies.

@nematophy @bytheophana Time will tell, but lets remember its the Taiwanese being invited to the US to share their know-how. Not the other way around.

@bytheophana They think they’re working harder but really the Americans are outpacing them because they’re rested and reenergized from the Happy Hour, during which resolved a blocker the Taiwanese were too scared to touch (because they’d need to talk back to their boss). It’s cope, basically

a cab driver in taipei told me that taiwanese tmsc workers universally dread going to america for business trips. he said that americans leave for happy hour while taiwanese people have to stay behind to finish their work. this makes them feel really uncomfortable and unhappy, like they’re second class citizens despite the fact that they come from HQ. sad and upsetting to hear, although unsurprising. i asked him if those workers ever believe tsmc america will surpass tsmc taiwan. taiwanese consensus is that americans simply lack the work ethic and attention to detail to ever close the gap.

@litocoen @QFEX is built for it. Hyperliquid isnt.

hate to be a party pooper but the ux for trading stocks on hyperliquid, lighter etc. still sucks had two liquidations this week due to abrupt wicks without any moves in the underlying markets funding rates are often sky high and not arbed away still too illiquid basically