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Ep #5 of new Black Mirror is this classic show at its very best: Sci Fi as a way to access deeply human themes in a new way.


**No Spoilers**


+ Basically a one-man-play by Paul Giamatti (this alone should be enough!)

+ A very moving, Eternal Sunshine-esque theme

+ Good writing

+ Superb cinematography / animation

You can watch this one stand-alone and I highly recommend you do! (Yes I’m looking at you @androidsixteen.eth)

Tell me what you think!

Talent

Meet Nicole Smith-Ludvik, the woman who stood atop the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa (828m) for an Emirates Airlines ad

Food

I actually think the growth of app layer is exactly the time that good social philosophy is needed *most*.

Analogy: imagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general purpose, there isn't much surface for bad social philosophy to wreck it (or good social philosophy to improve it).

Ethereum L1 is not quite in that position: someone who doesn't believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or FOCIL, or (good forms of) account abstraction; someone who doesn't mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS... But the EVM opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose.

Apps are ~80% special purpose. What apps you build depends heavily on what ideas you have of what ethereum apps (and ethereum as a whole) are there to do for the world. And so having good ideas on this topic out there becomes crucially important.

@owocki absolutely right, that's why i shouted out the dapps at the end. i am in total opposition to infra obsession and think we don't escape the malaise until we find out way back to dapp ecosystem thinking.

@post_polar_ fair take

i will concede that generational/talent turnover is needed for ethereum to renew itself.

and that next generation needs to be rooted into ethereums values (eg cypherpunk).

but omigosh, we are so used to what we know (protocols, infrastructure, supply side

Kev.Ξth is in Brooklyn

I actually think the growth of app layer is exactly the time that good social philosophy is needed *most*.

Analogy: imagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general purpose, there isn't much surface for bad social philosophy to wreck it (or good social philosophy to improve it).

Ethereum L1 is not quite in that position: someone who doesn't believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or FOCIL, or (good forms of) account abstraction; someone who doesn't mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS... But the EVM opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose.

Apps are ~80% special purpose. What apps you build depends heavily on what ideas you have of what ethereum apps (and ethereum as a whole) are there to do for the world. And so having good ideas on this topic out there becomes crucially important.

https://x.com/owocki/status/1911160442728419681

Farcaster Devs

Early morning yoga class is a blessing, especially with such an incredible view

All of your crypto. All of your wallets. All in one place. Your home for everything onchain. wallet.coinbase.com

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Example from @coinbasewallet 

https://warpcast.com/oxb/0x794f140e

Solution to a puzzle from the other app

(This is actually relevant to energy-efficient ventilation!)

Base

it's never as good as it seems, it's never as bad as it seems

good sunday to build something — or go outside, touch grass, and lock in for the week ahead

Hey everyone! 👋 Excited to start engaging with the farcaster community. What is the topic on here that is most controversial and likely to annoy the most amount of people?

Coordination is the orchestration of resources across time

Parenting

I'm back — after an incredible month away

what did I miss?

Blockspace demand/supply graph, the current situation and what's happening (S*) 

What should happen: the industry must pivot completely to demand-side, instead of continuing to be all-in on the supply side

Where we are and where we're going

1. Recently, we've seen a decent increase in daily active users (DAU). Between 200K and 300K users open Warpcast every month. This needs to be 10-100x greater for Farcaster to be sustainable.

2. We've also seen a lot of previously "churned" users reactivate on Farcaster.

3. We've significantly upgraded our developer UX with mini apps (formerly frames) and wallet. 70K+ funded wallets.

4. We've scaled our USDC rewards programs for content, mini apps and invites. $250K+ in USDC rewards and growing.

5. We've introduced a new series of verifications to help developers better understand users on the protocol. Over 150K+ users have at least one verification.

6. We've launched airdrop offers, allowing developers to target Farcaster users who use their apps via mini apps.

7. Snapchain is launching soon. It's a novel, blockchain-like distributed system that will allow us to scale the protocol for the next 10x.

8. We've grown the team by 50% since the start of the year.

1/3

would hate to be in the same ring as the merkle team

mfers

Blockchain unlocks freedom, airdrops reward believers....decentralization is the future, and we're here for the ride!

aniruddhaislam

@aniruddhaislam