Martín Casais (casaislabs)

jesse admitting the social bet failed is the most valuable cast of the year and nobody is reading it right. the lesson is not that onchain social is dead. its that you cannot bootstrap culture with financial incentives. base paid people to create and got extraction. farcaster never paid and got community. subsidies attract mercenaries, constraints attract believers. which one is your protocol optimizing for

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crypto keeps solving problems in the wrong order. we built perfect money before payment ux. perfect identity before recovery. perfect ownership before anything worth owning. the tech tree is upside down and everyone acts like thats normal

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unpopular opinion but most onchain identity projects are solving reputation for people who already have it. the anon dev with no github and no linkedin shipping bangers is the actual user. who is building for them

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the whole open source world runs on people who gave for free. treating that instinct as a red flag was always going to break something

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