Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
Thanks to Claude again for organizing my braindump into an article. If you hate the new wallet emphasis, this blog's for you. If you love the new wallet emphasis, you can show me who's boss by buying $dfern. Either way: clank clank. Farcaster's Growing Pains: The Delicate Balance Between Crypto Innovation and Mass Appeal
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Dan Romero
@dwr
> Lead with social connection, not financial speculation in its public messaging We tried this for 4.5 years. We saturated the market for people interested in this and aren’t specifically focused on political affiliation. My push to you: the network is permissionless. If the opportunity for all social no crypto is so obvious, why isn’t someone building that client? Additionally, I think it’s easy to say you should go after X or Y group of people. Much harder to actually spend the time trying to convince them only to have them tell you why they aren’t interested (or onboard and then just churn).
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boscolo.eth
@boscolo.eth
> My push to you: the network is permissionless. If the opportunity for all social no crypto is so obvious, why isn’t someone building that client? I suspect the builders that feel this way are building on the other permissionless network. fwiw, there are some crypto experiments going on there. Seems like morphing the Farcaster protocol to ride on AT Protocol would be an easy way to let MM focus on crypto and not have to also build a new protocol.
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Dan Romero
@dwr
> fwiw, there are some crypto experiments going on there Experiments, but no funded companies and they are even farther away from Crypto Twitter than Farcaster is. I'll update my priors on AT Proto once they have multiple well-funded businesses building on it. Right now it's the core team +hobbyists. The political / anti-capitalist nature of the core network is super polarizing for regular entrepreneurs.
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