Sergej Kotliar

CEO @Bitrefill ⚡️[email protected]

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

Why are all these people who are ”old and retired from JPMorgan” suddenly shilling stonks?

[Keonne Rodriguez @keonne]

I am writing from FPC Morgantown prison in West Virginia. It has been about 5 months since I first surrendered myself in December, and I will be honest, the prospect of a Presidential pardon is very low. There was some hope during the Bitcoin 2026 conference, but that has now come and gone, and one must come to terms with the fact that I am simply a federal prisoner without money, power, or influence, and I will serve my full sentence. It will be years before I can even attempt to rebuild my life. Which is why I am now writing this appeal to you all now. Things are dire and we need your help.

Lauren and I need your help desperately. More than ever before. We have over $2 Million of debt due to legal fees. We have a $250k fine the judge levied against us. Every day I get letters and calls from anxious lawyers looking to be paid. Or the DOJ demanding I start making payments on my fine. Perhaps it was denial or delusion, but I had hoped to do what I have always done and dig myself out of this hole myself - but with the reality of serving a full sentence that is not possible. I hate to ask for your help in this way but we are entirely out of options. We need to pay off these legal bills and other debts accrued attempting to defend myself. We desperately need your help. Now.

For 10 years Bill and I built and published open source code and tools for Bitcoin users. Those same tools and code are what the government says were criminal. The tools and code still exist, they are out there right now and always will be. The creators however are locked away in Federal prison. The creators are the ones whose lives have been decimated. The creators are the ones who have been financially wiped out. The creators are the ones who desperately need you now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 . We have to get this albatross from around our neck.

Samourai had well over 100,000 users. These users pushed over 2 billion dollars through our open source tools. We need those users and any bitcoiner who appreciates the work that we put into this industry for over a decade to help us now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 right now.

If you require a private address please DM my wife @leamuirleyn and she will provide one. Please do not delay. Time is of the essence. Please help us.

- Keonne

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@jackmallers Wow! 😍 congrats!!!

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@WalkerAmerica Crazy! Glad everyone’s ok ❤️

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@BitcoinErrorLog Congrats! 💪

Onwards!

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@BitcoinErrorLog @francispouliot_ 😳🙏

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@roy_breez 😂💯

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Consider that the dumbest people you know are repeatedly being told "You're absolutely right!" by LLMs.

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

Oh just an autonomous agent integrated Bitrefill into its' own code base using our CLI after being pitched to do so over twitter.

🤯

What a time to be alive...

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@uxerik_ I doubt it’s personal. It’s just humanoid form processors processing forms. They don’t care if you win or lose. Sometimes you can get lucky and get a real human human, they exist in the system, but it’s a roll of the dice.
But even if you win, then what?

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@gajesh @bitrefill Let’s sync over dm!

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@sytaylor What about fraud? How will merchants/psps transition from a world where robot visitors are dangerous to a world where some robot visitors are desired customers but others are still dangerous

[Bitrefill @bitrefill]

We're back up. Mostly.

We expect everything to be back to normal within a couple of days. You can check live updates on what's working now here: https://t.co/6CmHeeDTiK

Bitrefill was the target of a breach from a high-profile hacker group. As soon as our team realized an attack was ongoing, we took the website and app down, and since then we have been working 24/7 to get the site back up in a safe way, which we are now doing. We’ve gotten help from top cybersecurity experts, onchain analytics and law enforcement, to understand what happened and how. We have a pretty clear image of that (hello 🇰🇵) and will publish more information about what happened as soon as we have time to write it all up.

TL;DR: User gift cards, store credits, KYC info are unharmed. Bitrefill took a hit, our customers did not.

Again, thanks for your patience and your continued trust. We’ll be back to our full self shortly.

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@bitrefill Our team is on it and already progressed a lot. We're prioritizing safety when restoring the service.
We'll continue to communicate progress and will give an ETA as soon as we know.
Appreciate everyone bearing with us.

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@PPQdotAI @openclaw Can the lobsters pay their own bills?

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

From each according to their skills,
to each according to their .md file

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@stacy_muur @stripe @base How do you track the number of transactions? What are the biggest known sources of transactions?

[Sergej Kotliar @ziggamon]

@benthecarman @nickslaney We have and are building more but in this case it went through the UI. Was lots of errors and bugs along the way but it got the job done in the end.