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I guess we're all starting Gofundme's to get our Base names

was this just a botched launch? or value extraction via Dutch auction?

what happened?

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their heart was in the right place but comms wasn't great. the intent of the dutch auction was to avoid bots from scooping names people wanted. makes sense on paper but it's not immediately clear what is happening. you have to click into the "premium" link text to understand the DA.

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thanks for clarifying! yeah, the UI seems really unclear…

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Not sure if users should be flattered or insulted that someone thought they'd immediately grok it was a dutch auction lol

seriously though if we want more normies to use crypto there can't be dutch auctions starting at 100 eth as the point of sale interaction. Seen so many "this is broken" casts.

seems they rushed this out without much feedback or testing…pretty sad to see and off-brand for @coinbase 

“you want one” was also horrendous marketing and i immediately looked away when i read that. frankly embarrassing

more thoughts: https://warpcast.com/sayangel/0xd7e9ba20