stripe just assembled the first stack that circumvents CEXes entirely

before embedded wallets, apps were at the mercy of external wallets

privy flipped the model. they empowered apps to own the relationship with users

but CEXes still provided the best onramp, and so the

Austin Marrazza

good take https://x.com/realitywarp/status/1932907314937246128

One of the reasons why I cast and blog and generally try to publish thoughts on the internet is I see it as a contribution to the future. I’m not deranged enough to think people in the future will care about me as an individual, but they will want to know what life was like in general in the 2000s. Of course there are enough people doing this today and one more person won’t change anything, but at the same time, every person is unique so why not contribute?

I’m reading a book about events from the 1200s and there are so few first person written accounts which means certain details will never be known and can only be imagined.

I believe this, ~rationally. I personally still struggle a lot with “why would anyone care what I have to say”, though. I wish I could internalize this belief further

Founders

stumbled upon the original @splits demo vid. i think this was pre-eth global hackathon.

come a long way.

https://www.loom.com/share/e4ef293b7436489bbba3b50cc59571c5

going to tell my kids Rinkeby, Goerli, Kovan, and Ropsten were the beatles

going to tell my kids Rinkeby, Goerli, Kovan, and Ropsten were the beatles

https://farcaster.xyz/abram/0x464f36b6

outside of linear, which companies have pulled off the best design resets?

outside of linear, which companies have pulled off the best design resets?

https://linear.app/blog/a-design-reset

Never, actually, balancing that is the beauty of life.

a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar tomorrow

stables : ACH/wire :: email : fax/letters

speed matters

the tension between wanting everything to be great and wanting things to get done never goes away, does it

To the class of '24/'25:

There's a famous line from @pmarca when he moved to Silicon Valley in 1994. The Internet boom was already under way. He came from a small town in Iowa, and seeing these growing giants like AOL and Cisco, he was worried that he was already too late. That

Haseeb ＞|＜

we're still early, fc especially 

https://x.com/hosseeb/status/1932534607863558461

Parenting

wind up toys : kinetic energy :: children : love

what goes into these episodes:

1. some weeks i listen to 1000+ songs to pick the 15 that goes into the hour 

i used to be a club DJ in my twenties and stopped playing in 2016. putting out a fresh hour every week is way different than playing clubs where you don't need to drastically change your record box week by week.  
i had no idea what i was signing up for when i committed to doing this weekly.

2. going into each week, i first pick 1-2 songs to build the set around 
this week it was this Etnik's remix of Cold by Blitzkids that i think came out in in 2014 (i play it at 14:00)

there will also be another 3-6 songs that are somewhat of emotional 'leads' 
i then pick the rest of the songs to create the ebbs and flows that i'd need for for those leads to shine

https://pinetree.so/video/0x82049be77eb299a219c1571ff0ea60836fc90546

maybe now is not the moment to promote an article lol

but ANYWAY! @chaim.eth talked to @splits about launching @acidtest. we discussed the challenge of balancing NFT sales with the project clanker $ACID — two very different business models, but can they work in tandem?

👉 https://splits.org/blog/onchain-business-models/

(full disclosure, I own about $50 of $ACID. yeah I'm a high roller)

bookmark for your morning coffee ☕ 

(i miss lazy weekend mornings from my pre kids life)

> End result, you get people from different segments and they agree on nothing, literally nothing, except the site is a great source of unbiased information

published in 2013

nobody actually wants to give you money for nothing

and they especially don't want to give you *a lot* of money for nothing!

https://paragraph.com/@weekinfarcaster/airdrops-are-marketing

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

https://help.safe.global/en/articles/178530-how-does-the-widget-fee-work-for-native-swaps

don't want to ruin the story but if you're earning non-stables onchain, make sure you're selling some ~immediately to cover your taxes 😬

ONLY 5 DAYS UNTIL  
SONG A DAY 6000!!!

Today I'm sharing the story:

HOW I MADE $3 MILLION IN ONE HOUR...  
THEN LOST IT ALL 
AND OWED THE IRS  $1.1 MILLION  I DIDN'T HAVE

Welcome to my Crypto Tax Nightmare.   

Buckle up, it's wild ride. 🧵👇

17 years of song a day

don't want to ruin the story but if you're earning non-stables onchain, make sure you're selling some ~immediately to cover your taxes 😬 

https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1929212434318815686

the-arena

This week in Pinetree 🚢

- kicked off v1.1, worked on specs for new features 👀 
- added Datadog logging (you gotta pay the dog 😮‍💨) 
- improved mini app settings menu and added link to full app
- increased max video size to 30GB
- investigated a gnarly bug with video uploads -- thank you @infinitehomie and @coolbeans1r for helping us debug!! 🙏

Side note -- my favorite thing about Farcaster is how many people are willing to test out your app and give constructive feedback, even if the app is nascent. While I often feel embarrassed about the bugs / issues they run into, it is helpful that early users seem to be more excited than judgmental. This is a journey of a 1000 miles, and each day we'll make the experience slightly better

Shout out in particular to @retalien for this thread -- we will improve the player UX to work better on mobile!