"balaji’s playbook is cloud first, land last: build the community online, then find a country that wants it. the last step is the hard one. but this time, what took two years of paperwork in malaysia took a few hours in kazakhstan. governments rarely move at a startup's pace, but this one has done it before. in 1997, i...
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a few people have built their entire identity, personality and backstory around being anti-farcaster
two things i'd say: a) just don't get pulled into guilt trap b) always play from the front
it is what it is. i'm honestly tired of all the noise and drama a/b fc new ownership on the fc and twitter timeline.
it's always had owner, they've always had their own priorities. in the past we saw revealed preferences. at least now they are stated preferences.
go to another client if it bothers you. stop puttin
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it's so good you just can't stop thinking about:
1. rolexes also shared something more specific with suvs: aspirational manliness
an internal 1967 report by rolex's ad agency j. walter thompson explained the idea they were trying to convey: "because a rolex is designed for any situation, however rough or dangerous or...
"introducing steel at the price of gold"
"in 1960 expensive watches cost a lot because they cost a lot to manufacture, and what the buyer got in return was the most accurate timekeeping device, for its size, that could be made. now they cost a lot because brands spend a lot on advertising and use tricks to limit suppl
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"introducing steel at the price of gold"
"in 1960 expensive watches cost a lot because they cost a lot to manufacture, and what the buyer got in return was the most accurate timekeeping device, for its size, that could be made. now they cost a lot because brands spend a lot on advertising and use tricks to limit suppl...
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this is an extremely promising direction for farcaster in the grand scheme of things
let's win
THE RESTORATION OF FRIEND SPEECH ($2048 PRIZE)
Farcaster began as a community of friends — specifically Dan Romero’s friends-of-friends — and it thus implicitly had the social norm of friend speech. It was really Friendcaster. However, it couldn’t maintain that norm at scale, in part because it lacked an army of human
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"traders from fomo, pump, and farcaster show up on opensea with their profiles and their trades in your feed"
opensea has gone all in
Devin Finzer | dfinzer.eth | opensea
@dfinzer
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we’re opening the opensea app to the public today. three big things about this launch:
social trading is now open
social trading is here, but it’s fragmented. what’s done in public on one app just lives on that app. onchain social graphs and profiles should be aggregated, open,
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"trade is the post, pnl is the reputation, status goes to people who are right"
show, don't tell
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farcaster was, is, and will be a place for discussion and disruptive builds; networks thrive on doing things, not doubling down on toxic discourse full stop
No it’s not?
It’s not even farcaster. A decentralised network doesn’t preemptively ban users based on retroactive rules, and lock down its API without warning.
It even locked people out of their DMs.
I’m sure it’ll be a big network for airdrop farmers, beggars, and other types I try to actively avoid - but it absolu
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network state on a mission mode
what a great start with a great force for collective action
$2048 FOR FARCASTER CLIENTS
Anyone can build a Farcaster client and run a read node to get data from the protocol. There are developer tutorials on the web[1,2,3,4], but your mission in this prize, should you choose to accept it, is to improve them by collecting all relevant info and making it incredibly easy.
Speci
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now that farcaster has passed the vibe check, a few things on my list for it:
a) give mini apps a verified check to filter the spam and improve visibility
b) better discoverability for mini apps by keywords, not just by their names
c) improve wallet functionality, make swaps as smooth as possible, make yields a prio...
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