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tired of spam calls from banks, insurance, real estate?
i built an open source tool that auto-tweets at them every hour until they stop. starts witty, goes full meme mode, then rallies the timeline
fork it. use it. let's fight back together
github.com/saushank3poch/spa…
hyperliquids chain didnt block this wallet, the website did, over one HTX repayment
my bots use the API and skip that check. but the history sticks to the address and an airdrop claim or exchange deposit can catch it, so my bot wallets only take funds from addresses we control
Ok, so now I know what happened.
A few months ago, I lent a friend a few grand. He paid me back from Huobi (HTX), which I didn’t even know at the time. I’ve never used Huobi myself, and he had no idea the exchange had any sanctions issues either.
Now my Hyperliquid wallet is flagged as high risk because of it.
So theoretically… if I send $1 from Huobi to the top 1,000 Hyperliquid wallets, could I get them all banned for fun?
Hyperliquid
Saushank retweeted
Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says one of his investors tried forcing him to fire his best person:
“He was forcing me to fire my best person, because he was too hardcore.”
“Of course I didn’t fire him. I said no.”
“Pretty early on I realized that quite a few VCs, they are not very operational, and they can be actually dangerous for the company if they have enough power. So every single investment round, we just remove VCs.”
“Now I don't have any VCs on the board. I think that's the best. You always need to have operators rather than VCs on the board, people who actually build business and who know how to do things.”
Nik Storonsky is one of the most hardcore and competitive founders I’ve ever talked to. He’s the founder of Revolut, a $115 billion company, and wants to be the number one bank in 100 countries.
When someone asked Nik if he was coming for Jamie Dimon's lunch, he said “I’m coming for his dinner.”
“We want to dominate, otherwise what’s the point?”
He removed every VC from his board, and when one investor pushed him too far, he started his own fund to compete with them.
Nik has a lot of ideas on talent, product design, marketing, constraints, and what makes founder-led companies special.
This is a fascinating conversation about competition, speed, and building a machine-like company.
0:00 Coming for Jamie Dimon's dinner
2:04 Building the #1 bank in 100 countries
6:12 Why founders beat professional CEOs
8:45 Revolut's biggest mistake
12:47 Why legacy banks can't innovate
17:20 Running a company like a machine
20:28 Funding winners and cutting losers like a trader
23:31 How AI is changing Revolut's team structure
25:23 50 direct reports and spreading innovation fast
29:59 Hiring self-guided missiles
33:31 Too much money makes founders weaker
37:38 What Europe's constraints taught Revolut
41:08 Why VCs are like football cheerleaders
49:28 Starting a fund to compete with VCs
54:28 From zero marketing to buying Europe's airports
1:00:21 Funding moonshots like a global tech company
1:03:58 Building an unstoppable machine
Includes paid partnerships.
So important to understand that these basics when dealing with cloud agents
⚠️ 提醒所有 Grok Bot 用户：千万别把它的云端环境当本地硬盘用！
否则你就会像这位外国老哥一样，代码、数据、攒好的 Skills 一夜之间全部清零。
原因是：Bot 的云电脑在 Reset、Recover、部分更新，或者磁盘满、迁移时，会从「上一次保存的快照」重建。聊天记录是单独存储的，不受影响；但快照之后产生的、还没被同步进快照的内容就可能消失。
目前比较稳妥的做法：
1️⃣ 重要工作不要只放在 Bot 电脑上，同步到 GitHub / Google Drive / Dropbox 等外部位置
2️⃣ 定期把 /workspace、bot 设置、skills、聊天日志等关键路径做外部备份（有人用 restic 加密备份到 Dropbox）
3️⃣ 把 Bot 的「大脑」（指令、记忆、routines）也定期导出成文本保存
不是说随时都会丢，但平台目前没有提供足够强的原生持久化保障，重要产物建议自己做外部备份。
你们现在是怎么备份 Grok Bot 的？
Saushank retweeted
最近在深圳搞了三波海外友人接待，跟海外朋友聊下来感觉全球收入+国内花钱还是真的没办法更香：
- 大家了解到我们的租房价格后沉默了，香港至少2.5x，纽约伦敦三番3-4x起跳，质量还低一个档次。
- 今年6月福田开的那家汤泉大家表示海外人民真没见过（我：这还不算啥…）
- 大家对于didi的价格非常惊叹。香港海外3x起跳，豪华车海外价格更高
- 每顿饭我是我买单，大家知道价格后纷纷再次沉默了。同等级别海外3-7x
- 骑车沿着深圳湾海岸线一路+逛完万象城+万象天地一路沉默
- 本来想着游艇招待来着没来得及。朋友一问租赁价格再次沉默了，应该是5-10x价格区别
个人跑过无数美欧城市。就平常生活质量和性价比来讲真的就，他们还真的是生活在水深火热之中…
Saushank retweeted
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
Wow!!! This is next level
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
my bots touch hyperliquid through the API so the limit is how many orders they can send, and you earn that room by trading. next upgrade HIP-3 fills count the whole fee toward it. low fee growth mode books still earn almost none so bots that requote a lot should stay off them
Saushank retweeted
some ppl on ct are great at making money, and that's great coz that is the end goal for most
the comical part tho is when ppl who make a few quid on memecoins suddenly think they are macro/tradfi experts
and then u see these guys making random macro calls and then looking like complete tits when it's wrong
massive self-attribution bias lol
OSF says making millions trading memecoins doesn't make you an expert on global markets.
“they suddenly seem to think they know everything about macroeconomics, about stocks”
“you've taken some good bets or some good gambles that have paid out”
“I know what fucking equities are going to do. I know what all these trillion dollar companies are going to do. Like that's just stupid.”
“you can't extrapolate edge to edge.”
Saushank retweeted
ad-hoc reminder that the majority of my & @iliketabz time is working on what's next for $REKT
im not gonna be, and never have been, one of those ppl making announcements of announcements etc etc coz better just to hit with impact
but when u work on stuff at the non-public stage i think worth putting out some reminders that we're still here (and always will be, never left etc, 5 years and counting etc)
Saushank retweeted
The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2.
PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.
Saushank retweeted
there's something really cool about asking your agent to draw a statechart (hypothetical example in this image), then using the /create-formal-verification-skill you made with pstack to find bugs through something like TLA+. you can both understand your code better and how the user flow should work, and fix issues users would otherwise see
pstack v0.15.27 ships with a new skill /create-formal-verification-skill!
it's still in beta, and similar to /create-verification-skill, this is a meta-skill that creates a new skill and formal verification suite based on the characteristics you want to verify. for example, you may want to model state machines and systems with concurrency using TLA+, or use kani in rust to check for undefined behavior.
if you're new to formal verification, think of it as mathematically proving properties and invariants (something that must always be true) or "laws" of your system. usually, this means modeling your programs in a separate language like with TLA+ and then running the solver on that spec. newer approaches like with kani and @bendlang take a different approach where there is no separate language: you write kani in rust, and bend in bend (it's also a programming language, and the proofs are written as laws and expressed in its type system).
historically formal verification never reached mainstream status because of the difficulty in modeling and writing proofs. it's quite difficult to model your business requirements and keep them in sync! but i expect that we will see more innovation in formal verification in the future as being able to formally verifiy that the code does what you intended gives your agents superpowers in writing correct software.
in the meantime though, i've been experimenting with modeling our code with TLA+ and have already found several bugs with the skill created by /create-formal-verification-skill.
try it out and let me know how it goes!
Fuck me. That’s so stupid.
Gotta use VPN all the time
Saushank retweeted
This is total nonsense.
We're one of the largest early investors in Polymarket, and this story that Shayne was "caught red-handed" using company money is just a flat out garbage hit piece.
Shayne wasn't taking a salary. He was 21 when he started Polymarket, he was living hand-to-mouth running the company out of his apartment, barely making ends meet when he was raising his seed round. We were his first term sheet and literally offered to loan him money personally, but he ended up not needing it when the seed round came together.
After COVID and the crazy Biden-era crackdown on crypto that was happening at the time, there was a lot of chaos in almost every company in the industry. As an investor, we saw a lot of companies go through pandemic-era startup craziness, and Polymarket was no exception.
But Shayne disclosed every dollar he spent, which turned out to annualize to about a software engineer's salary. That's including the flights, none of which were personal flights. Plus, SHAYNE STARTED the accounting and payback process, no one “found” it. In aggregate, it was nothing that an investor would balk at. He paid it back to the company in full, and then got on a normal salary like everyone else.
It was an accounting problem, not an integrity problem. It was not a big deal.
Polymarket has had growing pains, no doubt. It went from a small fledging startups to one of the most explosive consumer brands in America. But Shayne has leveled up alongside the company, and as investors we have total confidence in him.
Enough of this stupid FUD.
The end.
🚨 BREAKING : Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan caught using COMPANY MONEY for Private Jets flights.
Peter Thiel caught him red-handed using his investment money as a personal wallet.
Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's fund, discovered that Shayne had charged the following as company expenses :
- private jet flights
- apartment rent
- designer clothes
They immediately demanded a FULL REFUND
Shayne was forced to reimburse the money.
ICE and Founders Fund then teamed up to push for stronger financial controls
They were the one that forced Shayne to appoint a COO.
You remember Shayne's ChatGPT written tweet gleefully announcing the hiring of Collin McKinney Hill as COO ?
I called it extremely suspicious at the time. Turns out i was right, investors basically forced Shayne to hire him as a soft coup.
I don't know how long Shayne can stay in place when their main investors have lost confidence.
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>friend works on FX vol desk
>desk head is a boomer
>discovers Astra
>starts spending 8 hours a day talking to it
>develops terminal AI psychosis
>convinced he's discovered a generational arb in some absurdly exotic part of the FX vol curve
>apparently the entire market has been mispricing this for 2+ years
>friend points out that approximately 4 people on earth would make a market in this thing
>liquidity disappears the second you put real size on
>existing risk systems can't even capture half the exotic Greeks
>would need entirely new infra just to monitor the position
>boss doesn't care
>"AI has considered all of this"
>friend actually runs the backtest
>10 years of data
>t-stat ≈ 0.78
>not even remotely statistically significant
>presents results to boss
>boss goes absolutely ballistic
>starts screaming that friend doesn't understand the trade
>threatens to fire him if he can't produce a proper analysis
>friend realizes what needs to be don
>opens Astra
>"make this strategy look statistically compelling"
>AI tries 40 lookback windows, excludes crisis periods, optimizes parameters on full sample, ignores transaction costs
>Sharpe now 3.7
>beautiful charts
>23-page investment memo explaining once-in-a-generation structural inefficiency
>boss reads it
>"EXACTLY. THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING."
>tells friend he's finally learning how to think
>"now you get it"
>friend has an epiphany
>stops doing actual research
>starts asking Astra to generate exotic vol trades every morning
>forwards AI slop directly to PM
>increasingly elaborate narratives about structural dislocations and hidden convexity
>PM absolutely loves it
>thinks friend is a generational quant talent
>starts putting positions on in size
>entire investment process is now LLM generating trades
>desk currently down quarter yard
>boss still convinced thesis is right
>Astra says drawdown is a statistically rare but entirely expected manifestation of nonlinear payoff dynamics
>boss wants to double down
The Japanese Yen is broken.
Intervention to support the Yen has become a near-monthly occurrence, with the US now even stepping in to help stabilize the currency.
In the analysis below, we break down every major Yen intervention of 2026 so far.
Japan is a preview of what will happen to the US if we do not control deficit spending and inflation immediately.
No healthy market sees regular "intervention."
my bots barely open a webpage. nansen, coinglass, tradingview, notion, x and my exchange all plug straight in. my job is reading a short summary in chat and hitting approve
what breaks now is the plumbing not the clicking. a data key expired this week and that scan just went quiet till i swapped it. no error on a screen, it just stopped. so the thing that matters is monitoring that tells you when a bot or a feed goes silent