Marco Liew

having fun with friends
working on blockchain

#BTRST #ownit #crypto #blockchain

[Marco Liew @LiewMarco]

@hell0men @hklst4r @CurveFinance @InverseFinance yea, how??

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automate, just do it!

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why quiet?
well, it's not
okay, just my anxiety. shut up and enjoy life.

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@SpecterAnalyst @ribbonfinance PK leak? defillama says so ...

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@bbl4de_xyz @deadrosesxyz mate, is dead talking real or joking?

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@SpecterAnalyst Dude, I'm lost here

Mr Leung stole from Yan Yung? and both Hong Kong citizens?

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@hklst4r @ImpermaxFinance You're the fastest Indie analyst I've seen since Nick L Franklin

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@hyperion_xyz Hello guys, are you open-source?

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@thel4stc0de Hi, I'd love to have a talk. Is your DM open?

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@hyperion_xyz Hello guys, why aren't you open-source?

[deAlex @AlexSmirnov]

We won the 4-year battle for https://t.co/H21eGotAqA

After a 4-year chase and a bidding war, deBridge has found its rightful home at https://t.co/H21eGotAqA. Here's how it went down.

After raising our $5.5M seed in 2021, I tried to buy https://t.co/H21eGotAqA through DomainAgents, losing bids on $10K, $25K, $50K...in the end we settled for a dot finance domain, like many early stage projects.

Every offer we made was declined by the owner, someone in the US who had registered it back in 2008. I even tried reaching out directly, and got zero response.

Just in case the owner forgot to renew it, I set a Google Calendar reminder to check the expiration date every year,. Every year the reminder popped up. Every year he renewed it.

After 4 years I kind of stopped paying attention, but this year when the reminder popped up, this time the domain wasn’t renewed.

Winning the auction

We immediately started researching how domain expirations and auctions work. Turns out, it’s not simple! Expired domains go through multiple stages: grace period, redemption, backorder. But eventually we hit an auction on this old-school site, NameJet.

To even participate, you have to verify your account manually, go through KYC by phone, and figure out how to fund your bids (the card limit on their site was just $15K).

After the expiration grace period, the auction finally went live. We placed a backorder, waited for the start, and then the real battle began. There were over 40 bidders! Every bid extended the timer by 5 minutes, so the auction stretched late into the night. It became a mini war, I’d raise the bid, someone would instantly counter.

It went like that for hours. Finally, after dozens of rounds, our bid of $50,999 held as the final one.
That was it — after four years, we’d finally won https://t.co/H21eGotAqA.

After aaaall that, the payment failed because of their outdated system, and the email said if we didn’t pay within 24 hours, the domain would be forfeited.😂

So we jumped on calls with their support, figured out a wire transfer, and finally — it was done!

Say hello to our new home at https://t.co/H21eGotAqA⚡️

[Marco Liew @LiewMarco]

GH remembered comment when I went back.
How is it doing this? Does it store written text in cache till I press Comment?
https://t.co/4kWKIGK8Xu

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@ASvanevik SEC is same as U.S. gov?

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You’re Too Hard On Yourself If You Do These 7 Things by @JamesMSama https://t.co/CHqASmSHzY

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My kids designed a game and this is what I learned by Ben Snyder in @uxdesigncc https://t.co/oYCe17gUlC

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BlockSec’s Perspective on the Jump ‘Counter Exploit’: Does the Vulnerability Really Exist? by @BlockSecTeam https://t.co/GZrY7KL84i

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10 Hilarious Programming Jokes That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud (Even If You’re Not a Coder) by @sheetalgarambha in @inPlainEngHQ https://t.co/3zvc0SSUAF

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I Used GPT-3 to Find 213 Security Vulnerabilities in a Single Codebase by Chris Koch in @BttrProgramming https://t.co/tk4IbXhPQT

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Amazon Became What It Is Today Due To This Secret Investment Bezos Made. by @alananybusiness https://t.co/HbrPGFphOW

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Protecting your name, image and reputation – my experience as a WOC by @SolaiValliappan https://t.co/xscEa5hkc8