Dan Romero (@dwr) on Farcaster

Dan Romero

@dwr

Interested in technology and other stuff.

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LOL building new retentive social networks still hard even if you have 800M WAU

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4mo

Remember Sora?

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New personal ATH from flight on Sunday night. Invisible -> Brainstorm copy was clutch. 3x photograph combo with hanging chad and sock and buskin with 50% chance of bloodstone hitting (and then layer on rest of flush + steel cards)

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"Why hasn't crypto had more mainstream impact in 2026?"

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MPP myths "MPP only works with Tempo" No. It's payment method agnostic — works with crypto and fiat, any chain. It's already been extended to Bitcoin Lightning; there's a draft extension for Solana. "It costs 1.5% to use" No inherent cost to using MPP. Individual payment methods may charge fees, but that's no differe...

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Why do we need another machine payments protocol? 1. Payment rail agnostic 2. Extensible -- other companies were able to extend it in *days*

Dan Romero

@dwr

MPP differs from other machine payment protocols in that it is payment-rail agnostic and extensible from day one. Tempo developed the initial stablecoin payment method. Stripe added support for its range of payment methods. Visa extended the protocol to enable broader card https://t.co/ifwN7fn39D

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for the brooklyn people claude order me a sandwich x.com/dwr/status/2...

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check out the interactive demo on mpp.dev

mpp.dev

Machine Payments Protocol

Dan Romero

@dwr

Check out the interactive demo on the MPP docs site mpp dot dev https://t.co/D9L1lAfdoU

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Tempo mainnet is live! We also launched a new machine payments protocol co-authored with Stripe called MPP.

Dan Romero

@dwr

Tempo mainnet is live! We're also launching MPP -- a new open standard for agents co-authored with Stripe. It's payment rail agnostic -- works with stablecoins on any chain but also cards, Lightning network, etc.

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moz

And population only grew ~10%.

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10d

Hot tech companies all want to be Google without the Google search monopoly cash cow.

kyletut

5mo

OpenAI is poorly managed. Their ideas in isolation sound reasonable, but in totality they are completely undisciplined. - 1-800-CHATGPT - GPT Store - io acquisition - Agentic Commerce Protocol - TikTok for AI videos - Etc Even then, many of their ideas are closer to "sitcom ideas" than they are good ideas. They cle

signüll

@signulll

10d

let's simulate what sama & mark chen are going through for the next few weeks on what to prioritize & what to chop shall we? this will be the walmart version of it lmao. openai has 29 "products" in the portfolio. - chatgpt - chatgpt search - deep research - chatgpt agent -

dwr

15d

Neat.

wondering.app

Wondering - Learn What You Thought You Couldn’t

dwr

15d

he's dropping major alpha multiple times a week right now

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

16d

Expectation: the age of the IDE is over Reality: we’re going to need a bigger IDE (imo). It just looks very different because humans now move upwards and program at a higher level - the basic unit of interest is not one file but one agent. It’s still programming.

dwr

16d

👀

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18d

could be an opportunity for farcaster at the protocol level https://x.com/dwr/status/2030720658355970470?s=20

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

17d

@Yuchenj_UW Yeah that's clearly the next part, e.g. my crappy first draft: https://t.co/GIDXSGnY17 have to emulate academia, not just a single researcher. but need more time to think through the details.