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

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

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> 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).