Signal’s privacy is unbeatable—now imagine that security in every app. AT Protocol is the game-changer that enables this with its user-controlled identity and open-source ethos, laying a rock-solid foundation to build a new open end-to-end encrypted protocol. Curious? 📝👇

Signal’s privacy is unbeatable—now imagine that security in every app. AT Protocol is the game-changer that enables this with its user-controlled identity and open-source ethos, laying a rock-solid foundation to build a new open end-to-end encrypted protocol. Curious? 📝👇

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I agree, but also it was in an early version of our pitch deck, so I'll be the first to repent.

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

teddit

warning: long read, personal POV

i worked for years with brands, celebs, banks, investors, and foundations. i know how powerful brand marketing is in building trust and community.

and as someone whose family, friends, and daily life don’t touch crypto (despite my best effort), i’m painfully aware of how bad crypto’s brand is.

if you’re thinking “only XYZ is cringe,” hate to break it to you: to most people, there’s no difference between ethereum, solana or base. to them, it’s all just crypto.

no amount of “man on the street” tiktoks, memecoins, or cypherpunk storytelling is going to fix that.

i’ve been in crypto since 2018, and the most consistent thing i’ve seen convert skeptics into believers is simple: trusted humans.

people change their minds when someone they trust shows them something they care about.

maybe i’m wrong, but i still think the best way forward is what’s worked for every other network: good humans onboarding other good humans.

it’s slow until it’s not.

"first principle" question

Why is the dominant rallying cry for people in crypto to talk about ways of getting more people in crypto? It seems more like a religion or multi-level marketing business than a technology.

Not picking specifically on @ted, this cast just highlighted a thought that has been brewing a while.

wufs

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Sounders

Ethereum builder & people connector. Juicebox, Revnet, Defifa & Footy App

The economy is tanking but my wife is scheduled to be induced this evening and give birth to our daughter, our first child. 

So I busted out this 26-year-old pu’erh I’ve been saving for a special occasion. L’chaim. /tea

The night my wife was induced with our first child, we went to Wendy's 😬

This is an interesting experiment to onboard users into crypto. Buy an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and build crypto onboarding into the customer journey. 📶

E147: GDP Onchain. Primero Latinoamérica. Con @santiagoroel Santiago R Santos. En @10ampro https://t.co/mqV430dzbu

Latin America is the first market we intend to run our playbook @inversion_cap 

Why? Because everyone there wants to hold dollars vs local currency and it’s one of the largest remittance corridors in the world (US-LatAm)

Consumers deserves a better service than what existing

Santiago R Santos

This is an interesting experiment to onboard users into crypto. Buy an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and build crypto onboarding into the customer journey. 📶 
https://x.com/santiagoroel/status/1907791255716659433

Farcaster

This is killing the Farcaster web experience...

If I'm working on my Laptop, I'm not going to use my phone to check FC. I'm just going to stop checking FC.

i used to think replyguys were cringe but now i miss them.

they have been replaced with the quote bloke

Senior prompt engineer. Shipped on farcaster: @larrybot, @qdau, @frames, @framesfun, /open-frames, farcasterchannels.com, farcaster.id, @mod, @search, @discove

this is all the stupid are capable of

it's the mildly smart people that build the Rube Goldberg machines

Ethereum

Reporter at Drop Site News, co-host at Breaking Points/Counter Points

Let me start with two analogies and then go into the substance.

(1) First: as the left puts it, Donald Trump is a convicted felon who attempted a coup. Does that mean every real estate deal signed during his first term is invalid?

(2) Second: as the right puts it, Joe Biden is a senile warmonger who misused his autopen. Does that mean every pardon and visa issued during his term is invalid?

Point: you can actually understand the dysfunction of Latin America through the increasingly dysfunctional North America. Yet every business has to play the game on the field, even as crazy instability rocks the center of government.

(3) Next, on Honduras specifically: the new left-wing government that oppposes ZEDE is also reportedly connected to criminals. To wit: "the Castro-Zelaya family appears embedded in some of the same criminal networks as its predecessor"

Point: the anti-ZEDE government is not good. Agree?
https://www.csis.org/analysis/bad-worse-xiomara-castro-administration-begins-weaponize-honduran-state

Love this line:

"every business has to play the game on the field, even as crazy instability rocks the center of government."

The protocol is still in the mixing bowl, but there is only one chef 👨‍🍳

Confession
Sometimes I engage Siri on my iPhone just because the pink glowy perimeter of the screen looks so cool.

What's so unclear d00d? Everybody else seems to be able to get in. Must be a skill issue. Crypto is about replacing gatekeepers with fair and transparent rules, preferably enforced in code. So...

Farcaster is a permissionless, sufficiently decentralized, open protocol governed by rough consensus and running code.

Farcaster (the app) has nerfs, bans, shadowbans, labels, custodial accounts which sign things on users' behalf for the overall convenience of network cohesion, embargoed wallets (for users as well as tokens) but they're onchain and self-custodial, mutes, blocks, bugs that lock out permissionless actions, Warps which are offchain "tokens" that can be revoked, channel owners that don't own channels, and the most buttery smooth UX and onboarding for onboarding "normies" to crypto.

Farcaster Con (blanket term for FarCon, FartherCon, FarCon Japan, FCNY, FC meetups) are non-sanctioned private events, whose organizers make their own rules.

Your number is not your worth. Here's a bunch of numbers tho

It seems like once a month, there is another story about Europe trying to add backdoors for law enforcement to access your private data.
Stay vigilant.

It seems like once a month, there is another story about Europe trying to add backdoors for law enforcement to access your private data.
Stay vigilant.

https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal

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