Andrei O.
@andrei0x309
Software developer, open source enthusiast, privacy advocate.
Clear Wallet Open-source privacy focused wallet: clear-wallet.flashsoft.eu
I’m agreeing with the sentiment, but a fully private CBDC is not a CBDC anymore, the whole point of CBDC is to have control, which you’ll lose with a fully private coin.
The problem is not the technology, but governments around the world will not accept it, especially as a large-scale way of transferring value.
It s...
I've written about this before, but reminder:
A fully private CBDC is the ideal solution, and the only way to replicate the self-custody & anonymity of physical cash
You eliminate multiple unnecessary middlemen - stablecoin issuers, their banking partners, blockchain infrastructure and their node operators, at each
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It doesn’t set any precedent, because it was a settlement. Only rulings are supposed to set precedents.
As you say, in fact, the judge said that training on copyrighted material is fair use, but objected to illegally downloading books from piracy websites.
Anthropic just abandoned the legal fight and calculated that...
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You did hit the contentious point, the MM team promised something that it can't do. I just wish they dropped the decentralized label because, in my opinion, it's false advertising.
After 5 years, there’s practically only one team under one company that shapes the protocol, and every decision. This reality does not mee...
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To be fair I would have liked Farcaster to be successful as a text based social protocol maintained by a large group of non affiliated devs and a network with nodes maintained by a large number of orgs.
Maybe is just me but Farcaster succeeding as an app launcher or wallet is beyond the pale.
The only user that inter...
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Testing long-cast from local herocast instance.
Filler characters: 56, 124, 9, 77, 71, 216, 110, 94, 278, 151, 165, 45, 297, 144, 41, 48, 254, 111, 65, 75, 81, 259, 4, 54, 53, 154, 285, 280, 68, 206, 258, 13, 10, 14, 253, 251, 228, 156, 12, 295, 70, 240, 215, 60, 107, 22, 128, 224, 173, 58, 248, 74, 72, 43, 130, 235, ...
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Just looks like part of standardization.
Every text-form social network will look 95/100 the same. I was wondering when this moment would come, I mean, it could have been implemented even 2 years ago.
Probably, it was planned a few weeks ago since the wallet part already got darker sooner. I’ve seen this choice a ...
It might be a play to gain farcaster[.]xyz rewards system, the user got on top pretty quickly.
I do think that ultimately many decisions will push the platform towards more engagement farming, farcaster pro is just another push towards making app rewards long-term.
I did previously enumerated the cons of rewards ( h...
It's obviously part of core marketing.
To be fair, I always criticize this strategy; it may give a boost in the short term, but it has so many toxic network effects.
Such as:
- creates false narratives
- incentives hype, false advertisements, and placeholder content
- corrupts the organic interactions graph
monetiz
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Did a minor update to farcaster-snapchain-utils, v1.1.8 to also allow the use of insecure GRPC, also replaced the default public Snapchain with a working version of a public snapchain.
Github farcaster library farcaster-snapchain-utils ( https://github.com/andrei0x309/farcaster-snapchain-utils ) new repo commit!
- Commit: https://github.com/andrei0x309/farcaster-snapchain-utils/commit/a4d43ead19e7591c5714064b9227d6b3c351777d
- Commiter: @andrei0x309
https://github.com/andrei0x... http
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Not that I'm tribalistic, but I thought FC would be forever tied mostly with EVM, FID is on EVM, are there plans to be able to modify contracts to build a bridge to move the FID on Solana?
I find it pretty hard to understand FC goals:
1 Create a good decentralized social network?
2 Onboard non-crypto people to crypto...
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It's not only on the device, I just logged in with a fresh emulator.
Clearly, it's stored persistently.
In the best-case scenario, it's encrypted with the user-provided seed as a password, and the seed is never stored at Merkl.
But again, without the full source code of the backend + client, it's just: "trust me, br...
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Rewrote this Kotlin Android App that needs root to auto disconnect Data/WIFI.
Looks like on newer Android systems, to make this reliable, you need a ton of permissions, including a special service permission.
This special service permission allows the service to run in the background continuously, without user intera...
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I see some opposition to this to be fair, the reality is that all social media platforms use this in some way the problem with this is not the verifications themselves, but in fact, that they are detached from the protocol, making the protocol less valuable.
This should have been something that each client was forced ...
Farcaster Verifications are coming soon
Verify your account by connecting two socials (X, Phone or GitHub) and holding $25 in your wallet.
Verified accounts are less likely to get the spam label and show up higher in the feed, replies and search.
They are necessary to earn weekly rewards and qualify for airdrops
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Added some neat features in Clear Wallet 1.4.19 (live in the webstore)
- dual provider announcement, one for Clear Wallet and one to simulate Metamask this will allow better interaction with MetamaskSDK websites
- Live RPC performance measurement ( will show ms performance of RPC in UI)
- System native notification ...
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What if we coined every atom?
Technically speaking would not be possible in a non-simulated universe, so you first need to be outside of the simulation.
In that case, every atom is already represented in the system, but you would tokenize the representation in a parallel system to be able to make a quick profit in th...
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That's really great, I would love to see Recaster using the official logo, because farcaster assets were released under MIT, so every client should have the right to use the logo.
I probably will at some point use the same logo for fosscaster.xyz too.
It would be great to see at least several clients using the same a...
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