During the frantic emergency rename from ClaudeBot to MoldBot, crypto squatters stole his freed-up social media and package accounts within the five seconds it took him to drag his mouse between two browser windows to press rename.

35:16Bot, and the other one I renamed to Mod Bot. So, I pressed rename there, I pressed rename there, and in those five seconds, they stole the account name. Literally, the five seconds of dragging the mouse over there and pressing rename there was too long. - Wow. - Because there's no... Those systems... I mean, you would expect that they have some protection or, like, an automatic forwarding, but

35:41there's nothing like that. And I didn't know that they're not just good at harassment, they're also really good at using scripts and tools. - Yeah. - So, yeah. So, suddenly, like, the old account was promoting new tokens and serving malware. And I was like, "Okay, let's move over to GitHub," and I pressed rename on GitHub. And the GitHub renaming thing is slightly confusing, so I renamed my personal account. And in those... I guess it

36:17took me 30 seconds to realize my mistake. They sniped my account, serving malware from my account. So, I was like, "Okay, let's at least do the NPM stuff," but that takes, like, a minute to upload. They sniped, they sniped the NPM package, 'cause I could reserve the account, but I didn't reserve the root package.... so like everything that could go wrong , like went wrong. - Can I just ask a, a curious question of, in that moment you're sitting

36:50there, like how shitty do you feel? That's a pretty hopeless feeling, right? - Yeah. Because all I wanted was like having fun with that project and to keep building on it. And yet here I am like days into researching names, picking a name I didn't like. And having people that claimed they helped me making my life miserable in every possible way. And honestly, I was that close of just deleting it. I was like,