it’s been a year since i implemented ico mechanism on bitcoin using Alkanes
https://t.co/bygZ1EBRNA a first native Atomic Swap on Bitcoin. This allows a buyer to send Satoshis and receive ICO tokens in a single Bitcoin transaction no bridges, no "wrapped" workarounds
https://t.co/AQ8ty5SIrx
it’s been a year since i implemented ico mechanism on bitcoin using Alkanes
https://t.co/bygZ1EBRNA a first native Atomic Swap on Bitcoin. This allows a buyer to send Satoshis and receive ICO tokens in a single Bitcoin transaction no bridges, no "wrapped" workarounds
https://t.co/AQ8ty5SIrx
Ok so.. they left their CDN exposed.
If you ping the domain, you get this ip:
151.101.129.49
It turns out this is a https://t.co/wqDjtIZMEy IP . I had never heard of fastly but it looked to be something similar to vercel, so I figured maybe they had custom deployment links like vercel does.
Tried a few different combos and BINGO:
https://t.co/VUGl0CQFJm
This took me to this:
https://t.co/EaQKYxNtOy
That’s their CDN bucket on AWS. They currently have it setup so that any invalid endpoints redirect back to index.html
I went on a hunch and figured that they’d probably already have their production app stored somewhere in the CDN ready for deployment
I used SECLISTs (https://t.co/gafGrACoMC )and ffuf to try out over 20k different combinations on this URL.
After some sleuthing, BINGO!! I found these two files:
> live.html
> .DS_STORE
The important one here that immediately caught my eye was “live.html”. That sounded like a prod deployment.
And sure enough, it was!
This is what the https://t.co/eY5zWkX10Z site will look like on the day the faucet goes live:
https://t.co/vXn9H24Gvj
https://t.co/M7ExI8pQym
It turns out the entire faucet will be revealed to just be a promotion scheme to get you to buy a bitkey and use cash app.
There is no faucet - at least in the sense most were expecting.
The stronger AI gets, the faster the funnel of uncertainty collapses from chaos to fundamentals and the less time remains to extract rents from asymmetries.
Tagga is too well-mannered to make excuses, so allow me:
Salaries and taxes
> 6–10 engineers × $150–220k total comp
> payroll taxes, benefits, healthcare
That’s $1.2–2.5M per year
Over 3 years -> $3–5M just on the team
Infrastructure (Sandshrew) first product:
> Bitcoin infrastructure support (Bitcoin RPC / Esplora RPC)
> Ordinals / Alkanes / Runes indexers
> free for 3+ years
Easily $10–20k per month
Over 3 years -> $120k–240k
*These are not exaggerated numbers, this is standard survival-mode spending for a US-based R&D startup
https://t.co/pDjJKr6prb
@GabeLee0 @SUBFROSTio The problem is getting sharper. The first metaprotocol that offers miners a real, working toolkit and actually sells it to them will effectively become part of Bitcoin itself.
Bitcoin can objectively be viewed as a physical machine that converts energy into informational order.
Difficulty is the curve of resistance to that order.
@summraznboi@rodarmor@ArchNtwrk@arkade_os@flashnet@opnetbtc@spark@radfi_btc@Odin_GodOfRunes interesting, sounds like we need a layerzero for Bitcoin, deposit there and you get full interperable Bitcoin which you can swap for the native wrapped Bitcoin on whatever chain you are on and the actual coins sit in a multi-sig on mainnet with all these chains in a federation