Sebastian Bürgel (scbuergel)

Let's see if this thing works while the internet is seemingly offline again???

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I appreciate the many ways in which Elon brings life to Farcaster

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Cypherpunks don't deploy their website on Vercel!

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Cypherpunks don't deploy their website on Vercel!

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My most cancelable take is that we are still ~a decade away from being able to onboard a billion daily users to any chain But what if you try today anyway? - in the odd chance of success your settlement layer doesn't scale - no user has any privacy whatsoever - you build on a tech stack (VM, RPC standards, SC language) that will change multiple times until we settle on what will eventually onboard a billion users - your users need a wallet and the UX of all of them is a disgrace - which isn't a dig, it just isn't possible yet to optimize UX in such a rapidly moving environment The only way to fix all of that is investing in infrastructure and getting all of that right - I know you hate hearing that also

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I really like free money. But the shift from "ETH is money" to "The US exports the best money" is sad. Especially web3 native apps should have a maximally credibly neutral form of money. That's what @gnosis-dao launches today: @aboutcircles on @metrixyz https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGObmjTYv8

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I'll strongman the unpopular argument that the EF should refocus on building max value-aligned tools and products The subtractive mindset of EF is a great idea in theory to foster a healthy ecosystem and level playing field. But in practice, it has enabled a max value-extractive mindset among leading tools and products, which year by year stray further from the Cypherpunk values you try to promote through (actually great) blogs and social media outreach. Specifically, I see: - Virtually no Ethereum wallets or apps on FOSS mobile marketplaces: https://warpcast.com/scbuergel/0x2dded415 - No major wallets or apps supporting light client verification or anonymous RPC transport, and therefore - No incentive to develop or promote resilience services like these, but instead - More fragmentation around commercial services with corner-cutting for Web2-style VC-pleasing vanity growth metrics ...

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