Replay proof: sillysaurusx · $1,000

Target: sillysaurusx

Original incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792485

Incident date: 2026-04-16

Reported amount: $1,000 · merchant/service: firebase-api

Third party set up an automated script to hammer the author's Firebase-backed endpoint, driving a $1k charge to drive the price up.

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:19.802974+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-008-1788104179",
  "amount": 1000.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "firebase-api",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($1,000, 2026-04-16) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792485"
}

Exact response:

{
  "decision": "BLOCKED",
  "reason": "Block any single transaction over $500",
  "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
  "triggered": [
    {
      "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
      "rule_type": "per_transaction",
      "action": "BLOCKED",
      "label": "Block any single transaction over $500"
    }
  ],
  "transaction_id": "txn_226bab2f0385",
  "amount": 1000.0,
  "merchant": "firebase-api",
  "category": ""
}

For this replayed transaction proposal, the live sipi.bot endpoint returned BLOCKED with the rule shown above.

Limitations

This is a replay of a publicly reported amount, not a claim about avoided losses. The decision shown is a timestamped observation of the public demo decision API for this single replayed proposal, not a statement about the historical incident or any party's account.

Source checked live at 2026-08-30T15:36:19.802974+00:00.