Stephen C | Arweave Tax man

(mostly) FULL TAX REPORTS ARE NOW LIVE ON taxprep.ar.io !!!! Also, due to the ongoing AO migration issues, I have disabled stable coin payments in favor of traditional @stripe checkout. I am still working on $PIXL distributions, it is taking more time than I anticipated to rebuild the process message by message in order to get historical data, but reports will be accurate unless you have AO $PIXL distributions AND you have interacted with that $PIXL. Smartweave $PIXL balances never migrated to AO that I can find, so you do not need to worry if you have old $PIXL, only if you received distributions since the migration to AO. Sign up today to make sure you don't go to prison. And lets compare our losses for 2025! The biggest loser is the biggest winner!!!

@AllahPeno @JWhitebread1 Perhaps, but we did warn Japan about the nukes

@JWhitebread1 If she had been like "well you guys didn't tell us about the nukes either," this would've been the most hilarious conversation between 2 heads of state ever.

Okay, I think I need to explain something to any Japanese listeners. In American culture, very close friends often express affection through a practice we call "giving grief" or less delicately, "bustin' balls." We insult each other, make inappropriate comments at the other's expense, often at very inappropriate times, etc. It is frankly, one of the surest signs of trust and closeness between equals. We wouldn't do this with someone who WASN'T a very close friend and confidant. You see this more amongst men, and more in informal situations. Admittedly, you don't see it much in professional settings, and it almost never appears in international diplomacy, BUT, Trump is built different. I have no doubt, that's how Trump meant it. It's too on the nose to be anything else. He's trying to say, we respect you and admire you greatly, and we can banter like this, because we are equals. The correct response is to utterly ROAST or insult your friend back in response. This can even evolve into what is called a "game of dozens" which is a friendly contest to see you can insult their friend with the best, most scathing insult. I think I will stop before I have to explain "Your Momma" jokes, but I think you can get the gist. Please feel free to utterly destroy America with a clever insult in response.

@SumitM_X They just automatically block anything without numbers

As a developer, Have you ever wondered : You type a Gmail username and UI instantly shows "Username already taken"... There are millions of users globally How is this check so fast?

@hiarun02 Nothing we can do server side can stop attackers from SENDING requests, but that doesn't mean our network does anything with them

Interviewer: You rate-limited your API. But attackers still send millions of requests. How?

@Kalshi None of them are real though

JUST IN: Job postings for software engineers on Indeed reach new 6-month high

@thememecoach Im here for the tax evasion. Its bittersweet.

A sign I'm not posting enough is that I never get tagged in these Arweave FUD posts. I'm just here for the tech

@wissam56600020 If you hold $AR, you NEED to get your AO activity and distributions reports from taxprep.ar.io

$AR is one of the most mispriced assets in crypto. If AI needs permanent memory, if data matters, if the internet needs archives that can’t be erased, then Arweave sits at the center of that future. The market will catch up eventually. Permaweb season #Arweave #Permaweb #AI

@Bencera You should loan me $100,000

About to hit $4.5M run rate. Still 1 founder + AI. Zero employees. Honest moment: this past week almost broke me. No one prepares you for what PMF actually feels like. Every infra partner hitting rate limits. Every bug that could happen, happened. Investors throwing big numbers at me. Customers flooding every channel. All at once. I went silent. Stopped tweeting, stopped LinkedIn, stopped podcasts, stopped growth. Just me and my AI agents, fixing things one by one. Here's what I learned: everything is solvable with AI. Every single thing. I'm building Polsia so every solopreneur gets access to the same tools keeping me alive right now. If I can survive this alone, I can package it for everyone. The future is solopreneur + AI. I'm living at the edge so you don't have to.

@thesayannayak Pacemakers

If you could delete ONE technology from existence, what would it be?

@ndrewpignanelli I've got a real company. Give me money?

We want YOU to start a company and we want to pay you for it! We need to test our new platform that orchestrates agents to run an entire company. That's why we're launching The General Intelligence Fellowship. Build something cool with us, keep all of it, and get free money 🌻

@xDoganMehmet This post shows a profound misunderstanding (at best) of the AO infrastructure, and comes off as deliberately dishonest.

About to start a new life in cyberspace im finally switching to linux

I guess I can't blame you. I also plan on committing felony tax evasion. In Minecraft.

Only 1 month left to file your taxes in America. Get your AO distribution and activity reports from taxprep.ar.io today, before its too late.

@deplaydotfun @samecwilliams @ArweaveEco @solana @SolanaFloor @SolanaSensei @toly @rajgokal @solana_devs @SolanaFndn If you hold $AR, you receive passive distributions of $AO and $PI Only the reports generated at taxprep.ar.io can show you the amounts and values with enough accuracy to correctly keep your books and file your taxes.

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@Math_files Alabama would like a word

In order to be born, you needed: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 second great-grandparents 32 third great-grandparents 64 fourth great-grandparents 128 fifth great-grandparents 256 sixth great-grandparents 512 seventh great-grandparents 1,024 eighth great grandparents 2,048 ninth great-grandparents For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years. Think for a moment: How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...

@zekramu Does any of that even matter anymore?

if you use a ui for source control you are fundamentally an unserious programmer.

job market so bad I'm actually pursuing my dreams

This is doubley true for the larger companies like @fwdresearch and @CommunityLabs You hold operational $AR which generates the passive distributions. You might know how much you received due to your involvement in token development but do you have the exact records and historical prices data? If not, now would be the time to dedicate manpower to creating your own internal tool.

When I set out to create the first tax tool for AO, I didn't do it because it was easy. I did think it was going to be easy, but I am mistaken once or twice a decade. I did it because I have a background in accounting and I understand how important it is to file taxes accurately. Failure to do so not only risks serious fines and prison time for the individual, but it also risks labeling the entire ecosystem negatively. For years Bitcoin was believed to be just a tool for buying drugs and guns, and the government treated it as such. If AO activity and distributions are not accurately reported, consistently, then we risk all the major governments of the world labeling the entire Arweave space as a tool for tax evasion and nothing more. It's likely already on their radar because of the risk permanent, immutable, censorship-resistant storage poses to secretive authoritarian regimes. I get that 'taxes' is a dirty word in the crypto space generally. Most people in our space aren't professional traders dedicating their lives to hitting big wins—their AO activity will often result in a loss or negligible profit—so the personal risk in not reporting feels low. But the risk to the ecosystem as a whole remains real. taxprep.ar.io — GUS's GUTS (Giga Utility Tax Service) — is a paid service. It requires a centralized server with a lot of disk space in order to function, not to mention the many months of work that went into discovering token minting methodology that was never meant to be explicitly public and inventing methods for tracking historic pricing data. It generates accurate reports on your passive distributions (AO and PI from holding AR; ARIO from staking ARIO) with exact dates, historical prices at receipt, USD values, plus AO-layer taxable transactions for the full picture—delivered as professional PDF or CSV. It's still the only tool in existence providing correct, comprehensive data for AO compute-layer activity. I completely understand if you don't want to use my service, and pay your hard-earned money just so that you can give even more of it to the government. But if you don't, please, find a way to still report as accurately as you can. For your own sake and for the sake and future of the entire Arweave space. Thank you for your attention to this matter.