themutharuffler

@G_PHANT0M @Punk4725 @Ledger It's one of the most regular events in crypto, Ledger leaking their customers data. Every single year! Since 2020 at least.

@Punk4725 @Ledger Ledger has famously never kept your information secured they have data leaked for years now not storing buyers information securely if you use a ledger and you don't know about this known issue for years that is really shocking to me tbh

This is terrifying @Ledger. I just received a physical scam letter at my home address in Italy 🇮🇹 How the hell do scammers have access to the addresses of Ledger users? This goes way beyond phishing emails now. People’s safety is literally at risk.

@anonymous161686 @OrevaZSN Some might be, but most are not. People skills, industry knowledge, organisational skills, are usually very high in many of them. However, if they were reminded regularly of the work that happens around them to keep them in their seat, they might be better people.

@themutharuffler @OrevaZSN CEO is low skill

Calling service industry workers “low skill workers” really pisses me off because they could absolutely do your desk job and sit in meetings all day, but I guarantee you would crash out if you had to serve people for 10+ hours with a smile on your face and barely any break.

@HeslinKim It was something I wish I knew before it happened, how common it was. It softens and opens the heart to understanding how much love their is in the world for babes, and the pain parents go through for their children. So much love for your wife as well 💚

Yes, after opening up about our situation it has made me even more aware how common this is. I think at least 15 people have mentioned similarly. When you know it’s this frequent it also helps soften the impact. My heart goes out to everyone though. We all have something going on. Life isn’t perfect.

I stepped away from the conference circuit in Q1 and early Q2 because my wife was pregnant with our second child, and I wanted to stay grounded and present at home. In mid-March, we lost our baby in the third trimester. The grief has been heavy. Building a startup rarely leaves space for extended grief or going off the radar. There’s constant pressure to keep moving. I’ve never been a believer at all in traditional “work-life balance.” To me, there’s success or there isn’t, and real success starts with ensuring my wife and family are cared for to the fullest extent possible. Everything else flows from that. Work then is every other remaining waking moment. As a co-founder of a 13-person startup, I feel the weight of responsibility daily. Twelve other people’s livelihoods depend on the momentum we maintain. I’m incredibly fortunate to have the team I do, they immediately told me to take all the time I needed. We spent a week in the hospital, and they held things down without hesitation. You build, you grow, you keep moving forward. Life is full of unexpected lessons. It reminds me of the old Buddhist parable of the farmer’s son: the horse runs away (bad?), comes back with more horses (good?), the son breaks his leg riding a new wild horse (bad?), and then can’t go to war (good?), and so on. We rarely know in the moment what something truly means. If you’ve made it this far in the post, please know this isn’t a request for condolences. This is simply life, its struggles, its beauty, and its demand that we keep going. We don’t forget. We honor and remember. And we continue because we still have the gift of another day. This post is for anyone who has quietly carried similar pain while still showing up for work, family, and responsibilities. These things often go unspoken. I had many people ask me why I’ve not been at recent large events, so this is why. This feels especially relevant to share on here too. When you’re arguing with someone online or attacking them over a differing viewpoint, remember: there’s a real person on the other side of the screen. Pause before you post. Think for a moment. Crypto Twitter (CT) could use more of that pause right now. Few people can hold two opposing views in their head at once anymore; learn a thing or two from my friend @Shenanigrahams. That’s what kind of discourse we need to move the industry forward. With that said, I’m stepping back into the conference circuit in the coming weeks as we head into the next quarter stretch before mainnet. First up: @proofoftalk in Paris, hosted in none other than the Louvre. Excited to reconnect, share what we’ve been building at @ZenithFdn, and move forward.

@Web3Kristel A million percent YES! While I know we all love to pretent we are tax renegades, we aren't and using stables or crypto triggers tax obligations in most places. Why would I buy a coffee and create a tax event that I then have to pay additional tax on?

I'm begging founders to please build for people OUTSIDE of your bubble. Sending stables from one base wallet to another is free, sure. But what happens when I want to turn those stables into HARD CASH so I can use it? Who pays for my fees then? Will Base reimburse those fees? Will Jesse personally reimburse those fees? Get out of your SF/NY bubble and realize that people need fiat to live, stables are not default anywhere yet.

@betty_nft They have to have a perfect tiktok routine. I watched one of my childrens school dances and died inside... such a lack of fun and confidence. So happy I've taken my kids to festivals.

Are GenZ really not dancing at the club now. ? What are you guys doing just standing around?

@RoustanXYZ @drvictoryy @betty_nft So lame! What is the point of them?

@drvictoryy @betty_nft I went to a club in Vegas, was dancing, then some late twenty something gal started dropping it with me while her friend filmed it. Then the friend walked up to me and said 'you ain't got it.' and then they walked away. Was so lame.

@drvictoryy @betty_nft Those Meta glasses have got to go too!

@betty_nft You risk being filmed and humiliated from the 9/10 people on their phone. I’m early, not wrong, that venues that hold your phone while you attend are going to catch on

@LeonidasNFT @ord_io @ZapApp So much respect to those who give it their best to build and create something from nothing! Be proud of what you achieved, rest, reset, and it will be exciting to see what you turn to next.

We're shutting down @ord_io and @ZapApp at the end of the month This really sucks because great people put a lot of hard work into these products, friends invested in me, our users believed in us, and I feel like I let everyone down In the end we ran out of money and don't see a path forward Despite that I'm still incredibly proud of everything that we did I'm proud that we organically built two respected crypto brands that never farmed anyone or launched a token I'm proud that we empowered over a million people to explore Ordinals inscriptions on Bitcoin I'm proud that we shipped an app that let anyone sign up and buy a Bitcoin memecoin in under 30 seconds (an experience that many considered impossible) For the past 3 years I've woken up every day excited to build in the Bitcoin ecosystem and feel blessed to have had that opportunity I never took a salary, have no regrets, and wouldn't trade the epic moments we had along the way for anything Thank you to my cofounder Zach, our team, our investors, and all of our users for being part of this journey with me 🧡

@marcuslayerx Yep, I feel like we're at a point where inexperienced people and yes men are being brought in to keep delicate founders egos intact.

@themutharuffler i've seen it way too many times at this point tbh

if a project hasnt tweeted in months and suddenly starts posting only about their token, the launch is already cooked ive watched this exact pattern play out from inside NEAR and it's a guarantee at this point ill walk you through my real experiences i spent 5 years at the near foundation working on gtm for projects launching in the ecosystem. one of the patterns that came up over and over was web2 teams transitioning into crypto without realizing they were walking into a different game theyd come in with real experience launching products and businesses, theyd have funding, theyd have technical chops and then they would hire a marketing agency that any web3 native person would have recognized as predatory within five seconds, because the founders had no signal for which agencies in this space actually build projects and which ones just farm token allocations the way a lot of these agencies work is they get paid in tokens at launch their entire model is structured around one event, so the marketing plan they build for the project is designed to maximize hype going into tge rather than to build something durable after it they pump it on launch day, they sit out the cliff, they dump when their tokens unlock, theyre gone the project is left with a community that never really formed and a founder who genuinely doesnt understand what just happened (the price chart always speaks for itself) so the founders come back to the foundation saying we didnt get enough marketing support, and from our seat wed been telling them for months the dormant twitter, the tweets that were only about the token, the agency that had wrecked half a dozen launches in the previous year none of it landed because they didnt have the experience to hear/understand it heres what you can actually do with this if youre trading these launches look at the projects twitter - if its been dead for months and is suddenly active and the only thing theyre posting about is the token, the community wasnt built theyre going to dump on whoever buys at tge check the team - if theyre web2 and they dont have a single crypto native person on their cap table or as an advisor, they got captured and nobody on their team has the context to spot it look at whats actually been built - if theres tokenomics and a launch date but no real discord activity, no developer community, no third party people building or commenting on what theyre making, theres nothing under the token if you can identify the marketing agency, check their track record if theyve been attached to 3+ launches in the last 18 months that went 50%+ down within 60 days of unlock, thats your answer most launches that hit three of these underperform hard, and some of them go to zero ive seen this play out enough times that i now check these before i let any friend put money into a launch im not personally familiar with

@chooserich I wonder what makes up the cost, I'd like to know the breakdown of how it all works out. It is really shocking to see the numbers, for someone who doesn't know the USA system.

Cancer costs so far (prior to any treatment) - Inconclusive needle biopsy - $25k - Surgical biopsy - $100k - 10 min appt with oncologist - $4k

LOve this guys so much!

@0xFloWolf Yeah, give them your first born...

sorry bro, to get the job you have to: > apply through the careers page > dm the founder > dm the recruiter > repost & comment “interested” under the hiring post > rewrite your cv for the 47th time > record a 3 minute loom explaining why you’re a good fit > complete a take home task that's definitely unpaid > show 5 years of experience for an entry level role > know 14 tools, 6 of which the company does not use > have startup experience, agency experience and big company experience > be “hungry” > be “culture fit” > know someone already inside > survive 6 interview rounds > explain your biggest weakness without sounding weak > accept “competitive pay” with no actual number attached > wait 3 weeks for feedback > get ghosted and later, after all that, they’ll thank you for your time and say they went with someone whose experience “better matches the current direction of the team” did i miss any?

@EvanZhao6 They are tired from having to fill in the form, with all the information that is also on their CV, complete the quiz, with all the information that you would be able to learn if you spoke to them, and edit their CV to fit in with the ATS.

The kids are definitely not alright….

@anglersupremacy @ass_gcr @EvanZhao6 Or they can then feed into an AI and clone you... you never know where it will end up.

@ass_gcr @EvanZhao6 It's not even an interview, it's like a short video of you talking into a camera which they will not watch or even reply back to you.

@marcuslayerx I don't understand what agents are doing all the time. Like why are they moving internet money? It is just the trading game?

insane that we spent a decade trying to convince humans to use wallets and then ai agents show up and are immediately like i dont care that the ux sucks i dont care about seed phrases i dont care that bridging feels like a side quest i dont care that there are 14 different wallets i just need internet money that moves machines will end up being better customers for crypto than humans ever were

@iamLucyQ @CCHelp_HQ Who would tell you that you can't? Are you talking about decentralized blockchains or platforms that have backdoors and can controll what moves on their blockchains?

@CCHelp_HQ yes but only if I can sell it at a 10x in 3 years and nobody can tell me I can't. that's the whole point.

Let's Talk 💬 If you could own a digital version of something you really love, like a song, a sports moment, or art from your favorite creator, would you want it recorded as an NFT? ✔️ Yes, if it truly proves I own it ❓Not sure yet, I would want to understand it better first

@jonahlau_ So true! AI has just made it so much easier to keep building on the knowledge base and get the work done. Now I feel like the magic is happening in the collaboration, as one set of eyes and expertise with AI isn't always producing the best results.

Web3 companies are the only ones hiring for AI-native roles right now and nobody's connecting the dots Most tech companies are cutting people who know how to use AI tools. Web3 orgs are hiring for exactly that skill set. The difference isn't the industry. It's that Web3 companies never had the structure everyone else is now restructuring away from. There was never a 40-person product org where one person managed roadmaps and six others wrote specs. There was never a layer of PMs coordinating between design and eng without shipping anything themselves. Web3 teams have been running 3-person squads doing full-stack work since 2020 because there was no capital to hire any other way. One person doing product, growth, and ops wasn't a vision. It was survival. Now AI makes that structure actually scalable. The tooling finally caught up to the constraint. Every Web3 job description I see asks for someone who can wear five hats and ship across the entire stack. That's not because Web3 is special. It's because that's what one person with AI leverage looks like when you stop pretending you need a coordination layer. Tech companies are laying off the people who fit the old structure and looking for people who fit the new one. Web3 companies are just hiring for the structure they've had the whole time. If you're trying to figure out where the market is going, look at who's hiring and what the scope of the role actually is. The companies adding headcount right now are the ones who never had to unwind a top-heavy org chart.