A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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I find it vital to distinguish blockchain technology from cryptocurrency in defining the onboarding problem and its solutions. Cryptocurrency is a referential perspective on a subset of blockchain transactions, but blockchain technology deserves more than being under-imagined as a fiat replacement. It’s a centralized-data power and authority replacement that can go in utopian and apocalyptic directions.

Many human pain points can be related to fiat being an inaccurate and manipulated value ledger— but telling a consumer they’re harmed by fractional reserve banking and other fiat theatrics is like telling a fish the water is dirty. What else is the fish supposed to dream of?

The fish must believe there’s a continent it can evolve for and learn to walk on. 

Humans living as derivatives of centralized data must believe that owning their data, from currency to social media to healthcare to the car they drive— is a continent worth evolving for and learning to walk on.

blockchain is much more than money. the world computer is a revolutionary technology that enables a level of interoperability the internet has not seen before. let’s show them what’s possible.