Dan Finlay 🦊

@danfinlay

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I wrote a public goods purity test based on Vitalik's latest post: https://blog.danfinlay.com/getting-specific-about-why-open-source-is-a-more-pure-public-good/

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Going to share a little update related to my security incident Monday. Going to keep it terse for now, because I still have work to do, to fully put my mind at ease, but a few things I wanted to get out there for others, and I now have secured danfinlay.com to a degree where I no longer feel threatened by some self righteous sysadmins.

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Ok, well I've rotated my FC signer here. I *should* be rid of co-residents in this account for the moment. Thanks to the FC team for helping me speed through the recovery process despite some complications. This is an extremely concerning security incident to me, and I'll be doing my best to identify how it happened.

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Deleting my initial groggy sign-on where I shame people for following screenshots. It sounds like my warpcast account posted some memecoin this morning. Still investigating how. I'm really sorry if you were taken by that, I'll do my best to figure out what happened. https://warpcast.com/danfinlay/0x2f2a2e3b

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Hi, just woke up here, I currently have Flu-A. People are saying there was a verifiable FC post from my account. Any WC protocol sleuths who can help me identify the exact signer that sent it (would sure be nice if these were device linked), I'd appreciate it.

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My friend called MJF "The best heel in wrestling", and he's a New York Jewish boy?! And he got the crowd angrily chanting "Santa" at him?!?!?! Incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSVh-_kXhhA&themeRefresh=1

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I will not be baited into diverting my focus in the interest of a WC leaderboard. I will not be baited into diverting my focus in the interest of a WC leaderboard. I will not be baited into diverting my focus in the interest of a WC leaderboard.

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Evm nerds unite: Reduce the cost to deploy a new SCA by up to 20x by solving this one weird puzzle!

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Ok, weird hackenstein way to reduce the cost to deploy a new smart contract: Use EIP-7702 AUTH instead of deploying a smart contract using Nick's Method. Nick's Method allows an AUTH from a key that doesn't exist. That means 7702 provides an EVM-layer proxy contract alternative at around 1/10th the cost.

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I've been signed out of my twitter account on all devices. My password has been changed, and I am not receiving password reset emails. No unusual activity from the account yet, but I'm concerned what it may lead to. Don't believe anything that account says until this + my Bluesky account says otherwise. https://bsky.app/profile/danfinlay.com

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There's no excuse to leave critical JS infrastructure this vulnerable to supply chain attacks, thanks to LavaMoat from @metamask. Hasn't been for a few years, but if it takes a big hack to get you to think longer term, then I recommend you seize the opportunity: https://github.com/LavaMoat/LavaMoat

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Spritely has a unique and powerful approach to the social decentralized web. One where privacy and programmable interactivity are both first class citizens. A nonprofit with no VC baggage, publishing FOSS, looking to find the supporters who will help make its mission possible. https://spritely.institute/donate/

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How about an anonymity pool for the anonymity feed curators?

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Andreesen sure wants listeners to believe Bluesky is completely homogenous. There is definitely a large cluster of what he describes, but it sure isn’t one culture.

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Gratitude to all this passing stuff

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Last night I created an experiment on Farcaster that went farther than intended. What started as platform research revealed deeper truths about incentives, boundaries, consent, and human impact in web3. Some important lessons and thoughts on building better systems: https://blog.danfinlay.com/meme-tokens-and-consent/

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Ok so the increasingly noisy anon casts can quote tweet you and it makes it to the "priority" feed? If I just had good control of my own notifs & feed It'd be fine. The current notification system here is well situated for amplifying abuse, and abusive people here seem to know it.

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Shout out to the Clanker team for being open when receiving frustrated feedback. It's easy to seize up when someone is having negative emotions with your product. It's easy to mix up the thing you've poured love into with yourself. It's really important we builders all practice making that distinction.

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I am comparing the WC vs SOL memecoin experiences. Two tokens named CONSENT. Only one will win: https://pump.fun/coin/5dSqxyEpAYwp7rAS6ocwmgyZqYKdeyNjWchwr91fpump https://www.clanker.world/clanker/0x38AEe4574c260855914d9E19221cf4C10B016051

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Here's how anoncast is going to go: It's going to be fun and edgy for a while, and then people are going to realize that it makes slander free, and it will get noisy and useless and then people will unfollow it because it isn't high enough signal. It will be more meaningful to say `anon of ${KNOWN GROU} says:`

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