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Not quite Venice, but I really like the pizza at Ghisallo. https://maps.app.goo.gl/LM2yXVRVhShQXJWs6
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I'm going to start doing this and then I don't need to bother debating whether crypto should exist whenever someone asks me about my job. Another plus: for non-infra companies, explaining your product without mentioning crypto forces you to actually focus on the value of the product.
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Gotcha. Is the problem: 1. Mods ignore you 2. Not enough servers to join 3. Something else? I'm curious what other companies are paying in crypto. We pay ourselves with fiat via Rippling. Is your product for the employees receiving payment or the companies paying?
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Join some Discords, and ask the mods if they can give you some advice on an idea you are working on. Then ask everyone you talk to who else you should go talk to. If you have connections at the Ethereum Foundation, I believe employees there have the option to be paid in crypto. So you could reach out to them.
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Weird little idea: what if you wrote tech specs and tech docs as Jupyter notebooks? Anyone reading the notebook could fork it in browser and play around with the code. Probably better for docs than tech specs. You'd need a better commenting system on the spec use case.
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Mostly for REST I mean a resource oriented API. Never actually built a truly RESTful API (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer)
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What are some other standout use cases that are not possible without blockchain and that are vital to users that don't care about crypto's ideals?
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There's a ton of philosophical benefits I agree with: censorship resistance, decentralization, etc. But I don't think those bring mass adoption. Likewise, crypto UX isn't good enough for a lot of use cases, so only the most vital use cases force users to use the blockchain when they don't care about crypto itself.
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Thinking about real-world crypto use cases happening RIGHT NOW, that are only possible due to crypto. I cross investing, gambling, and self referential use off this list. Bonus points if users don't care it's crypto. Two stand out: - faster international settlement - payments in countries with runaway inflation
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I've been trying to tell Tim Cook that instead of working on AR/VR they should be focusing on smell-o-vision. Modify airpods to fit in the nostrils and call it nose-pods
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Happy to chat/be interviewed. Previously built an NFT credit card checkout product, but pivoted away from that
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I think Ponder is building the data layer for that stack. https://github.com/0xOlias/ponder
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The folding part is the most important part
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I want a combo washer/dryer where I can put in my dirty clothes and it'll wash, dry, and fold them without me having to do anything else.
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So is this dunking on the people posting low effort memes or the people complaining about people posting low effort memes or all of us?
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Yes definitely! Part of why I think things need to move past selling the technology and more towards selling the benefits. I think whenever a product has items that can be tradable (collectibles, loyalty points, financial instruments), crypto is better because you implement a standard and get markets for free.
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lol I always assumed they've worked and someone has run a dispute. But never actually done it myself Is there some discussion where they're not working yet? If true, that's honestly hilarious
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A bunch of zkEVMs are either just launched or hitting launch on mainnrt very soon. Not sure how production ready they are, though. The pragmatist in me says pick Polygon because I imagine they'll build tooling to bridge between roll-ups sidechain. Or get on the Base+Optimism chain and get grants CHOO CHOO
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What's the security problem with Arbitrum and Optimism, besides censorship? As long as you have somebody checking fraud proofs, should have the same security as Ethereum, right? Not sure if one can selectively check just fraud proofs that interact with Farcaster contracts. If so, only check txs you care about
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I love helmets! https://youtu.be/b9yL5usLFgY
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