Farcaster

What is the valuable asset that a decentralized social network is securing?

In Ethereum, it's primarily ether. What's the ether of social networks?

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Currently: WhatsABI

Provenance of ideas. In the emerging idea economy, having cryptographic lineage to where those ideas came from is going to be increasingly relevant and valuable.

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

I think idea flow is more like an Ouroboros, no beginning and no end. Or maybe more like a mycelium network where ideas split and merge and flow to where they're needed.

I think there's no such thing as an "original" idea, it's just a convenient abstraction because doing proper provenance is hard. Very useful though.

idk about provenance just yet but certainly off to a good start. 

- anchoring proofs into source of truth (blockchains) for time stamp gets us proof of existence. One may rewrite history in FC. @vrypan.eth wrote a parable about this. Couldn’t link. 

- does the oldest signed idea make it an original?

Yeah, I think we're going to end up in a world where people store their own data, and data of their friends forever, and the whole "expiry" thing is only going to apply for subsidized or paid storage from storage providers.

I'm pretty sure the way the casts are stored currently is in a merkle tree that you can always run proofs against even if not everyone has all the data.

Does this apply here if casts are ephemeral/get expired?