Andrei O. (andrei0x309)

I heard the joke that the third bidder is Justin Sun before any of the talks tonight, first I thought it was funny, but so many ppl said this joke during the spaces that it’s becoming concerning. https://farcaster.xyz/~/spaces/01a03bc0-d8ab-6089-28be-65f28bbbe46e

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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 seems in the end reserve currencies are always abused, creating one that is uncontrolable and unabusable seems like a great thought experiment, but we’re very far from that, and no one will cede monetary control, even if, in theory, that will help everyone. If a government or even the world wants to create a digital private cash system, I’m fully onboard with that. It will simplify things a lot. And if governments believe that will produce a lot of tax evasion, the simplest system is just to tax assets, which can’t be hidden. For me, it makes much more sense to tax assets and wealth, as it is much simpler than taxing income, which, if it is not used, is just a number with no effect.

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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 paying 3k per book to 500k authors is easier and better PR. Meta did the same actions, but is still fighting their case. The last legal claim they made is that even if you acquire copyrighted material using torrents, it’s not illegal if you don’t seed. To be honest, I don’t want copyright holders to win any case because my thesis is that IP protections are hurting society, and more people would benefit if IP protections were thoroughly reduced, for example, to a maximum of 1-2 years. There are ample studies that indicate IP only facilitates wealth concentration. But if Meta is allowed to pirate, so should everyone else.

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Deprecated NPM `farcaster-hub-utils` in favor of `farcaster-snapchain-utils` This library allows you to easily do actions with many signers, and in general, allows a simple interface to a snapchain node read/write, primarily a single class abstraction over node actions. Features: - works default with public node (provided by pinata) - works with Neynar node provided you use Neynar API key( you can use the free tier) - works with your own node - allows changing the node of the instance - allows changing the signer of the instance - can be used in read mode without a signer - simplifies getting bulk data - can do most write-actions that the protocol provides - has a docs website - bundled with bun for node/bun env Tested with Snapchain version `0.2.7`(was released very recently) first that didn't have any issue with the library tests. Made it primarily for myself but might be useful for other people too. https://www.npmjs.com/package/farcaster-snapchain-utils

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Wrote this open-source web reimplementation of web Warpcast. Still, many features are missing, will write an article( about ~3 years' worth of FC UX) and will add other features later. But it has basic support for: Multi-account Log in with an external wallet Sign up with an external wallet Animated avatars Casting Direct casting Bookmarks Mini Apps Minimized Mini Apps Commit attestation so you can 100% match the source code Planning to add much more stuff, although I'll not implement the 500+ endpoints that Warpcast now has, aiming to implement around 300 Just made the source public a few minutes ago. https://fosscaster.xyz

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Opening an open-source client UI in itself as a mini-app works to do infinite nesting until the UI is not usable or you run out of memory.

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Blaming NK is not helpful, on the contrary many times it pushes regulation which hurts the ecosystem. Just own your security issues, and try to help users. On that note custodial wallets being compromised is pretty huge security fault.

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