Pete (aka BFG)
@bfg
focus on humans-first · founder @lab2094 · /buildbetter newsletter&podcast · systems&frameworks for founders to grow businesses · also see /artistspotlight
Is decentralized storage a fad?
I don't think so.
Crypto hype around decentralized storage certainly cooled after 2021, but the underlying need hasn't disappeared.
The biggest weakness of decentralized storage ... isn't technology.
It's developer experience.
The decentralization should disappear behind excellent U...
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Pretty interesting development — maybe personal websites and blogs can have comeback without social networks tax 🤓
Nobody has said it better than Claire Vo @clairevo
Job has changed!
Job of a founder and product manager - in the era of abundant code and features, is finding what has commercial value for people and build that.
Often times, it will mean that you can only win if you build things you can see in the potential futur...
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The AI angle for Decentralized Storage is underrated!
This is the part that interests me most.
Everyone talks about AI compute.
Very few talk about AI data.
Models need enormous amounts of:
- images
- video
- audio
- text
- embeddings
- checkpoints
- synthetic datasets
Those assets need to live somewhere.
If AI be...
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These are very valid comments and very reasonable expectations
… yet most teams and founders fail at it 🤷♂️
It’s not just paragraph, it’s almost every failed FC app or project promise 😟
When you encourage your most dedicated contributors to invest time under one set of incentives, then move on without addressing the outcomes (especially when tokens were illiquid and difficult even at peak hype), it erodes trust. It makes me—and likely others—lose interest in doing further business with the platform.
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Not a typical post for FC — but Ronaldo deserves it and this is great summary of his impressive career that is ending without World Cup win 🙏😟
Loshmi
@loshmi
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He just played his last World Cup game.
Cristiano Ronaldo. 41 years old.
Here's the full story:
– born in poverty in Madeira, Portugal
– heart surgery at 15
– left home alone at 12 to pursue football
– cried himself to sleep for weeks
2003
– Sir Alex Ferguson signs him for https://t.co/9oCtO3K86u
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Centralized clouds vs Decentralised storage like Filecoin
Centralized clouds are amazing — but not perfect;
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure solved enormous problems:
- reliability
- global availability
- developer experience
- security
- billing
- support
They're incredible businesses.
But the...
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The world is producing an absurd amount of data 😱
AI, sensors, satellites, scientific research, genomics, media, autonomous vehicles ... and it's speeding up.
We're entering an era where humanity generates far more data than a handful of cloud providers can economically or politically manage forever.
Enter Web3 dec...
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Getting things ready for Thursday's premiere of my second talk with @0xbill from @intuition about relative trust and trust in the age of AI agents
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Funny thing with best parts of Web3 technology:
- current market is smaller than people hoped, but
- the long-term opportunity is larger than most people think.
I see decentralised storage as one of the crucial pieces of internet's future. Way more than most people using AWS, Azure or Google Cloud think.
It's one o...
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