✨ The closer New Year's gets, the stronger the nostalgia.
Today I was chatting with an old friend, Eric SetPos, and the years 2010–2017 came flooding back. When there was no AI yet, everyone had endless money, you're a student. MSU vibes. The dollar costs pennies, no need to work, your business career still ahead of you.
And now what?
War in Ukraine, drones in Moscow, migrants in London, riots in Paris. Nothing's left of the free internet.
And even back in childhood, on holidays, vacationing in Monaco had this carefree, kind of warm feel to it. Now you just show up: swim a bit, drive around, eat, hit the shops.
The soul is gone…
Today I was chatting with an old friend, Eric SetPos, and the years 2010–2017 came flooding back. When there was no AI yet, everyone had endless money, you're a student. MSU vibes. The dollar costs pennies, no need to work, your business career still ahead of you.
And now what?
War in Ukraine, drones in Moscow, migrants in London, riots in Paris. Nothing's left of the free internet.
And even back in childhood, on holidays, vacationing in Monaco had this carefree, kind of warm feel to it. Now you just show up: swim a bit, drive around, eat, hit the shops.
The soul is gone…
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Just recently found out that, as it turns out, there's a social network called Substack, something along the lines of Bluesky and Reddit. Checked it out of curiosity — meh, nothing special.
They were originally created, I think, as a response to Twitter's downfall. But now Musk's modern X and Zuckerberg's Threads are covering everything that used to be the competitors' strong suits.
It's already hard to remember what it was like under Jack Dorsey. But the dude reinvented himself, props to him. His current project Bitchat definitely has a right to exist in today's reality, especially in a place like France.
They were originally created, I think, as a response to Twitter's downfall. But now Musk's modern X and Zuckerberg's Threads are covering everything that used to be the competitors' strong suits.
It's already hard to remember what it was like under Jack Dorsey. But the dude reinvented himself, props to him. His current project Bitchat definitely has a right to exist in today's reality, especially in a place like France.
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SVIATOSLAV GUSEV | Substack
As a diligent seeker, I aspire to incorporate a plethora of captivating and enlightening moments into my life, wholeheartedly believing that our every opportunity serves as a chance for fresh growth and advancement.
Porsche.
I wanted to write about Porsche's problems, to give a review, but there's really only one issue here:the car itself. Or more precisely, why do you even need it?
Seriously. To get from home to university, pick someone up, swing by a restaurant, hit the gym for a workout, and come back home, I need to drive literally a few kilometers.
I fill up the tank no more than once a month. To rack up even a thousand kilometers takes at least a year. No other way, because there's nowhere to drive.
And only after living in other European cities did I understand why. The car here is often just unnecessary. Especially if you live in the center.
Each of my parents has several cars in the family, because on average we have one and a half cars per person. Unless, of course, your family consists of unemployed people living on benefits, or vibe-coders -_-
Because getting to Starbucks is one kilometer, max. A good restaurant is a few kilometers away. Driving to a café for breakfast — within a kilometer and a half. And universities, as a rule, are also located close to the city center.
That's it. And then you have to come up with places to go. You practically start zooming the map out, deliberately looking for places just to drive somewhere.
But it becomes a problem when you find your favorite spots that are practically within walking distance of where you live. Especially if your office is close to home.
Over the past eight years, I've talked a lot with Alexander Kondrashov and noticed that he's now started building country houses, got into real estate.
And I, even though I'm not a father of many children yet, am increasingly thinking that I need to move out and live outside the city.
That way the car will finally get used more often. But cars have one undeniable upside that I didn't appreciate before. It's that a car is an extension of your home.
Especially if you're a sociopath, an introvert, or just don't like strangers.
The ability to leave your apartment, walk to the elevator, go down to the parking lot, get into your car — thanks to which you don't have to cross paths with a single living person. Which, in my opinion, is the single biggest plus a car has.
It's the ability to minimize interaction with people and the surrounding world.
For the same reason, for example, I'll never walk into any boutique that has even the slightest line longer than two people. Because I hate waiting.
Today I went into a flower shop for two bouquets and stood in line. Don't ask why two. I was just raised with the idea that there should always be flowers in the house. And if you give just one bouquet at a time, you won't fill the whole apartment with one bouquet. So you always need to either buy a lot of flowers or do it more often.
So, if you want an honest review of the Porsche from me based on my time with it, here it is:
You can calmly walk out of your residence, get into the car, go on your proverbial dates and return. Minimizing contact with the outside world and strangers.
That's probably the greatest value a car has, as I see it.
I wanted to write about Porsche's problems, to give a review, but there's really only one issue here:
Seriously. To get from home to university, pick someone up, swing by a restaurant, hit the gym for a workout, and come back home, I need to drive literally a few kilometers.
I fill up the tank no more than once a month. To rack up even a thousand kilometers takes at least a year. No other way, because there's nowhere to drive.
This is probably the biggest problem (or advantage) of Europe. Back when I lived in Berlin a few years ago, I noticed that despite the autobahns, very few people in Germany have nice cars. Even though, you'd think, this is exactly where they make them, and they're so cheap that even a student can afford a Porsche.
And only after living in other European cities did I understand why. The car here is often just unnecessary. Especially if you live in the center.
Each of my parents has several cars in the family, because on average we have one and a half cars per person. Unless, of course, your family consists of unemployed people living on benefits, or vibe-coders -_-
Because getting to Starbucks is one kilometer, max. A good restaurant is a few kilometers away. Driving to a café for breakfast — within a kilometer and a half. And universities, as a rule, are also located close to the city center.
That's it. And then you have to come up with places to go. You practically start zooming the map out, deliberately looking for places just to drive somewhere.
But it becomes a problem when you find your favorite spots that are practically within walking distance of where you live. Especially if your office is close to home.
Over the past eight years, I've talked a lot with Alexander Kondrashov and noticed that he's now started building country houses, got into real estate.
And I, even though I'm not a father of many children yet, am increasingly thinking that I need to move out and live outside the city.
That way the car will finally get used more often. But cars have one undeniable upside that I didn't appreciate before. It's that a car is an extension of your home.
Especially if you're a sociopath, an introvert, or just don't like strangers.
The ability to leave your apartment, walk to the elevator, go down to the parking lot, get into your car — thanks to which you don't have to cross paths with a single living person. Which, in my opinion, is the single biggest plus a car has.
It's the ability to minimize interaction with people and the surrounding world.
For the same reason, for example, I'll never walk into any boutique that has even the slightest line longer than two people. Because I hate waiting.
Today I went into a flower shop for two bouquets and stood in line. Don't ask why two. I was just raised with the idea that there should always be flowers in the house. And if you give just one bouquet at a time, you won't fill the whole apartment with one bouquet. So you always need to either buy a lot of flowers or do it more often.
So, if you want an honest review of the Porsche from me based on my time with it, here it is:
You can calmly walk out of your residence, get into the car, go on your proverbial dates and return. Minimizing contact with the outside world and strangers.
That's probably the greatest value a car has, as I see it.
I wanted to make a post inviting you to follow my X — it's currently being run on autopilot by an AI agent.
But I'd rather share something else with you… So, I paid for LinkedIn Premium — 3,450 dirhams (around $1,000). And it's the most useless purchase I've ever made. But my close friend German Yakushev pointed out an interesting pattern: it's better to set agents up on commercial or life profiles after all.
That's basically how everyone on the US market operates. In the CIS, this is usually only used by those doing UGC, clip edits, or working in the iGaming vertical.
But I'd rather share something else with you… So, I paid for LinkedIn Premium — 3,450 dirhams (around $1,000). And it's the most useless purchase I've ever made. But my close friend German Yakushev pointed out an interesting pattern: it's better to set agents up on commercial or life profiles after all.
That's basically how everyone on the US market operates. In the CIS, this is usually only used by those doing UGC, clip edits, or working in the iGaming vertical.
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Deeply immersed in the IT world, exploring with passion and gaining insights. Actively investing in blockchain ventures at the very nexus of Web3 innovations.
📚 Interesting solution I was testing today: a cross-posting bot.
It lets you hook up dozens of pages via API, forwarding and publishing content straight to the most popular platforms. If you pair this bot with AI services for generating SEO and UGC content…
It lets you hook up dozens of pages via API, forwarding and publishing content straight to the most popular platforms. If you pair this bot with AI services for generating SEO and UGC content…
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Cross-Posting Superapp
Forward a Telegram message — publish to all your socials via Buffer, Upload-Post, Postmypost & Binance Square.
🕐 Everyone's probably already discussed the Binance hack, even Elon Musk. Around $6.3 billion was stolen from CZ's exchange.
According to preliminary data, North Korean hackers breached the infrastructure through a DevOps engineer's laptop and gained access to an internal container used for withdrawals. To attack one of the hot Ethereum wallets, they used the EIP-7702 mechanism.
In a single transaction, they drained ~167k ETH and 63 tokens, including 1.615 billion USDT. Tether and Circle have already frozen the stolen stablecoins.
According to preliminary data, North Korean hackers breached the infrastructure through a DevOps engineer's laptop and gained access to an internal container used for withdrawals. To attack one of the hot Ethereum wallets, they used the EIP-7702 mechanism.
In a single transaction, they drained ~167k ETH and 63 tokens, including 1.615 billion USDT. Tether and Circle have already frozen the stolen stablecoins.
Binance will recover quickly, even though the situation itself is unpleasant. The only thing I can add is that with the advancement of AI, incidents like this are going to become more frequent. Corporations that fail to keep up with updates, small FinTech startups, and government agencies in developing countries will suffer the most.
Good Halloween morning ♥️
I often share with you useful services we use in our work, and today is no exception.
This time we're reviewing the app @OneTradebitBot, which lets you not just order virtual cards, but issue them in unlimited quantities and in different regions (for different purposes), in dollars and euros.
And the best part: besides having cards with Google and Apple Pay, most of the cards don't require KYC, which means: they're available for Russia 🎃
I often share with you useful services we use in our work, and today is no exception.
This time we're reviewing the app @OneTradebitBot, which lets you not just order virtual cards, but issue them in unlimited quantities and in different regions (for different purposes), in dollars and euros.
And the best part: besides having cards with Google and Apple Pay, most of the cards don't require KYC, which means: they're available for Russia 🎃
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Виртуальные карты от компании VALE Labs.
Выпуск и пополнение прямо в Telegram.
Анонимные карты без КУС.
Выпуск и пополнение прямо в Telegram.
Анонимные карты без КУС.
By the way, if you're a blogger with an audience, you can also earn commissions from foreign bank cards.
To do this, you need to go to this service and build your own tg-bot using the constructor. No programmers or designers needed — literally everything is done in a few clicks. After that, head over to their website, create your first project in the constructor, then go to the "Subscription" section and activate the deposit. That's it 👍
I think you'll figure it out, it's all super easy over there, and of course there's an API available for integrations. I'd appreciate it if you signed up through my link as a thank-you for sharing such a useful tool.
Meanwhile, we're prepping an updated video in the studio about doing business in the US, with an overview of the current visas. Because the green card lottery has been frozen for a month…
To do this, you need to go to this service and build your own tg-bot using the constructor. No programmers or designers needed — literally everything is done in a few clicks. After that, head over to their website, create your first project in the constructor, then go to the "Subscription" section and activate the deposit. That's it 👍
I think you'll figure it out, it's all super easy over there, and of course there's an API available for integrations. I'd appreciate it if you signed up through my link as a thank-you for sharing such a useful tool.
Meanwhile, we're prepping an updated video in the studio about doing business in the US, with an overview of the current visas. Because the green card lottery has been frozen for a month…
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Конструктор брендированных карточных ботов и приложений. Кабинет партнёра. Построй свой бизнес на white label.
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As you know, crypto exchanges — driven by their desire to operate on Western markets — are definitively pulling out of the country run by Putin, in order to obtain European MiCA licenses. For European regulators, this is a classic demonstration of compliance with that requirement for obtaining a MiCA license. I think you remember that I wrote about this back in October 2022.
🇪🇺 A number of crypto exchanges, such as Binance, KuCoin, Bitget, MEXC, HTX and others have already left the market — the one controlled by the United Russia party. And if you haven't yet withdrawn your funds from these exchanges, it's recommended to do so before your accounts get shut down.
But don't be upset if you haven't managed to stash away enough cash over the past years to leave Moscow and relocate to Western Europe, Dubai, or the US. There are still CEXs where you can trade. For example, the ByBit exchange, which is currently running the WSOT trading competition. Last year our team took home a bit over 150 thousand dollars, which I consider a pretty solid result.
🇪🇺 A number of crypto exchanges, such as Binance, KuCoin, Bitget, MEXC, HTX and others have already left the market — the one controlled by the United Russia party. And if you haven't yet withdrawn your funds from these exchanges, it's recommended to do so before your accounts get shut down.
But don't be upset if you haven't managed to stash away enough cash over the past years to leave Moscow and relocate to Western Europe, Dubai, or the US. There are still CEXs where you can trade. For example, the ByBit exchange, which is currently running the WSOT trading competition. Last year our team took home a bit over 150 thousand dollars, which I consider a pretty solid result.
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What’s the point of having all this if you spend all your time at work just to afford it?
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The other day I was reading my friend's blog — Alexey Fyodorov's. He recently had a sponsored collab with Ksenia Sobchak.
I liked the idea that there's no point in doing business unless your goal is to build a global company, go public with an IPO. Build a global brand that will live for decades. And where should you build such a company — in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, or maybe the UAE?
My friend Roman Khoroshev has already pulled off a successful stock market exit, ran a solid Pre-IPO with JetLend. Before 2022, on the local market it would've had great demand, of course… An acquaintance of mine, Semyon Tenyaev, was also considering taking TenChat public.
Because honestly, all the limits in business only exist in your head. I recently read a book by Brianna Wiest — "The Mountain Is You." I loved one line: "Nothing holds you back in life more than yourself."
And the right, good circle of people plus good ideas can cut your path to results by several times. Because the main goal of science, technology, and any business is for the company to outlive its founder and bring value to the user's daily life -_-
Lyosha, the owner of one of my favorite Russian brands Magssory, whom I met like 8 years ago I think — he was one of my clients. These days we're both members of the same private club for entrepreneurs and investors.
I liked the idea that there's no point in doing business unless your goal is to build a global company, go public with an IPO. Build a global brand that will live for decades. And where should you build such a company — in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, or maybe the UAE?
My friend Roman Khoroshev has already pulled off a successful stock market exit, ran a solid Pre-IPO with JetLend. Before 2022, on the local market it would've had great demand, of course… An acquaintance of mine, Semyon Tenyaev, was also considering taking TenChat public.
Because honestly, all the limits in business only exist in your head. I recently read a book by Brianna Wiest — "The Mountain Is You." I loved one line: "Nothing holds you back in life more than yourself."
And the right, good circle of people plus good ideas can cut your path to results by several times. Because the main goal of science, technology, and any business is for the company to outlive its founder and bring value to the user's daily life -_-
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In the partner service aimed at sellers (B2B segment), which their clients use to create AI Influencers: they made generations of similar trending AI videos completely free via this bot. Honestly, why not? For them, tokens cost pennies (they buy them by the…
We’ve already dumped over $60k into Higgsfield this past year just generating UGC content for the US market. Our videos are getting hundreds of likes even on their own platform. These guys somehow managed to build an actual social network inside an AI generation site — and it actually took off and became successful. Hats off 👏
Straight-up geniuses, no other way to put it. Proud of the guys from Kazakhstan. This is what it looks like when people actually built a real business in AI. ChatPlace also did pretty well for themselves — solid service too.
Wild that in two years of AI in Russia, nobody managed to build a single decent service like Higgsfield, even though the AI generation market is bottomless. But I guess there are no SMM entrepreneurs left in Russia — everyone bounced to the US.
Meanwhile every other dude managed to build a VPN🤡
Straight-up geniuses, no other way to put it. Proud of the guys from Kazakhstan. This is what it looks like when people actually built a real business in AI. ChatPlace also did pretty well for themselves — solid service too.
Wild that in two years of AI in Russia, nobody managed to build a single decent service like Higgsfield, even though the AI generation market is bottomless. But I guess there are no SMM entrepreneurs left in Russia — everyone bounced to the US.
Meanwhile every other dude managed to build a VPN
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How we used to react to any news 5 years ago. And how we react to any events in life now...
The experiment 🤷♂️ Make TON Gram Great Again didn't happen…
Pasha's coin (Gram, formerly TON) has finally crashed in price, currently trading below a dollar. Honestly, this was pretty much expected. Interest in DeFi will keep steadily declining, and I've been saying this for a long time. The global trend right now is tied either to AI or to women:the Nvidia CEO can back me up on that.
But if you use the official smart contract staking with ~18% APY or the one fixed in USDT, the losses don't look so dramatic anymore. You can check the calculator yourself and run the numbers. But to be honest, factoring in inflation, I just can't bring myself to call this "earnings."
Pasha's coin (Gram, formerly TON) has finally crashed in price, currently trading below a dollar. Honestly, this was pretty much expected. Interest in DeFi will keep steadily declining, and I've been saying this for a long time. The global trend right now is tied either to AI or to women:
But if you use the official smart contract staking with ~18% APY or the one fixed in USDT, the losses don't look so dramatic anymore. You can check the calculator yourself and run the numbers. But to be honest, factoring in inflation, I just can't bring myself to call this "earnings."
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An experimental format that our American subscribers loved so much that we even decided to translate the video into Russian for you.
This is one of the first MVP tests before stepping onto the political stage with our upcoming hour-long investigations and documentaries in the West.
This is one of the first MVP tests before stepping onto the political stage with our upcoming hour-long investigations and documentaries in the West.