Brenner
@brenner.eth
i disagree w @jessepollak on this. Words have to mean something. Diluting a word’s meaning isn’t helpful. If we wanna talk about all network participants, we can have a word for that https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1870532048802447648?s=46
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jesse.base.eth 🔵
@jessepollak
imo building is a mindset that can applied to basically every vertical. this sort of expansion is useful because it helps realign folks to use their skills / focus in a way that's more additive. does it dilute too? yes, but I think it's worth it. we also have specific words to capture folks (eg creator, founder, developer)
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
this part of crypto has internalized ‘builder’ = good and ‘trader’ = bad so it now has to speak in those terms in order or be legible, even if it’s trying to subvert that narrative
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
thanks for saying this. lots of developers reached out privately or in group chats expressing the same sentiment, afraid to say it out loud. so are VCs also builders? they too build the capital supply that enables innovation, how’re they different? why the mention of building something that “goes viral” instead of something that provides value on a long-term time horizon? yes, traders and trading platforms drive the most txns and the most volume (which is every L2s OKR) so it makes sense why include this. but Base has *always* embraced memecoins and trading, so this just comes across as inauthentic marketing woo woo word salad.
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42
Idk lol whatever
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links 🏴
@links
People scrolling the feed are builders. They are building an inferiority complex.
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Zeen Train
@zeentrain
The idea of a “builder” in crypto has a very specific meaning to develop understanding between everyone what someone is doing in the space Applying “builder” in the crypto context when referencing outside crypto actors creates a semiotics issue
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SQX
@sqx
agree. traders are capital allocators; which is in fact important. nothing more. not builders. traders need builders and builders need traders. such is capitalism. (im a trader.)
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PostArchitekt
@postarchitekt
Agreed, they are not the same. 20th century marketplace iteration: product>marketshare>traders>community. 21st century internet market stack: community<product>mindshare<product>traders<product>marketshare. Inspired by @safary article on mindshare and marketshare https://blog.safary.club/p/from-measurable-to-memorable-the?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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