privacy

i have gotten pretty frank with my comments on things i deeply care about. i don't intend to hurt feelings (and sorry where i have); i passionately want important things and genuine people to succeed.

a little color below on why i'm so harsh on Merkle 👇

those who have followed me awhile know I have a history of criticizing Merkle (especially the perverse incentives @dwr.eth and @v have with their own capital invested into @neynar et al.) i still want their ostensible goal to be achieved, but i disagree that the degree of decentralization is "sufficient". we need to keep an eye on them 

if Satoshi had done it their way, Bitcoin probably wouldn't have succeeded 🤷‍♂️ 

trust, but verify.

Agreed. Would be cool to see at least one rogue, fully open source client.

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@jestr @nickysap I got the alert that I got the $1 solana airdrop but i don’t see it in the wallet. Do we have to link an external solana wallet? Or is warpcast wallet supposed to generate one for me? I don’t see the $1 anywhere and the solana apps break when i try to use them.

barrydyne

“When people are bad at open-mindedness, they don’t know it” -Paul Graham

correct answer was 1200 quarters and o3 guessed 1100

coinmarketcap

How is it Meebits has significantly higher lifetime volume than apes? And how have I not even heard of Terraforms or dotdotdot ?

🤯 what an incredible journalist Tom O’Neill is

🤯 what an incredible journalist Tom O’Neill is
https://youtu.be/J36xPWBLcG8
https://youtu.be/0uhryyp4-pk

seems like an undershared interview. good look into the history of elon

seems like an undershared interview. good look into the history of elon

https://youtu.be/J5WyTw0oXDs

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In response to the Salt Typhoon breach of the US mobile infrastructure, @3num is developing the Bourbon Protocol: a permissionless, multipolar communications protocol for “sipping” that breaks free from legacy SMS/voice. It uses your Farcaster decentralized account (FID) to power end-end encrypted voice, video and messaging.

Our mission is for every Mobile Network Operator to upgrade to this new decentralized end-to-end encrypted protocol.

Dig into the details with our most recent article🥃👇
https://medium.com/@3NUMDAO/introducing-the-bourbon-protocol-a-secure-sipping-protocol-for-mobile-subscribers-1ce44c0808c6

Crypto: The Game

“﻿If you’re trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.”
-Paul Graham

taken from the fs.blog newsletter which is always excellent

Founders

“Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself”
-FDR

heard it on the Founders podcast tho

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plaza finance

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security

It’s strange to me that emails are allowed to show one url and direct to a different one (browsers too). I suppose because they need to track clicks. Seems like it should be a solved thing by now.