Ashish Dutt 🎩 on Warpcast

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NETWORK STATE NEWS I've thought about starting Network State News on Farcaster. We'd start with $1000 in prizes each day for content broadly related to startup societies and network states. For example, "generate a 60 second vertical video review of the top 10 startup societies", where the grand prize winner gets $500 and five runner ups get $100 each. But we'd also issue prizes for open source code, for book reviews, for politics and history, and for breaking news. It'd be social-native, because content would come fundamentally as public casts on an open social protocol rather than posts on a closed website. It'd be AI-native, because everyone would use AI tools like Claude, Midjourney, Runway, and Suno to compose every post. And of course it'd be crypto-native, because every post would be digitally signed, all payments would be in crypto, and everyone here would know how to cite blockchain evidence. Most of all, it'd be an experiment in decentralized global citizen journalism. Should we do it?

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One core idea is that anyone can participate, even if they're far away from NYC media, even if they're in the ascending world with a smartphone. After all, a $1000 prize goes pretty far in the Midwest and even further in India or Nigeria. Let me know your thoughts. Maybe we try this for a few months leading up to the Network State Conference in Singapore on Sep 22 (thenetworkstate.com/conference) and see how it goes.

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Absolutely doable. And much required. Staying in the Farcaster ecosystem right now is a bubble that needs outside news about varied topics for it to be engaging.

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