Haven't done one of these in a while — AMA!

Working at Coinbase in San Francisco from 2014 to 2019. Beyond crypto people, met a lot of people in Silicon Valley. 

In fact, my network is far more SV heavy than crypto heavy coming into Farcaster.

How did you get in touch with a lot of the top crypto founders/investors? (a16z, zora, …)

That's what we're trying to do with Farcaster!

Our current thinking is make something that's really great for Ethereum natives, then expand to cryptonatives, then tech-savvy folks, then normal people. 

But once the protocol is permissionless, anyone can try their own strategy.

aggregating subculture was what made reddit great (drawing users away from decentralized forums), so how might protocols reclaim that in the future? for example, SMS, RSS, and email have stagnated for decades while corporations have innovated on devices

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Healthcare investor by day, web3/AI tinkerer by night. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /theitinerant

1. How have they kept it a secret for so long?
2. And then it just so happens that alien objects haven't crashed in a populated area or other countries with less sophisticated state security infra?

Thoughts on the UFO whistleblower testimony? 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/06/13/claims-made-by-ufo-whistleblower-david-grusch-are-pure-science-fiction/?sh=ec20e183a418

Holy Seer of /farcastle and prophet of the Void | https://linktr.ee/Alditrus

Optimistic that either Congress or the courts create some clarity within the next 2 years

What are your feelings about crypto's future in the US?

Mainnet migration and permissionless sign ups

Excited about L2s actually starting to happen. Lower gas costs within the EVM will enable more apps and use cases!

Most interesting developments you are excited about in Farcaster and outside Farcaster?

Zora and Uniswap are the only ones I use frequently

Web3 email and messaging for everyone. E2EE.
Builders, get the SDK: https://docs.mailchain.com/developer

https://mailchain.com

1. Farcaster is a permissionless protocol, so you should build something. Unlikey for Warpcast given we have limited resources.

2. Casablanca, Godfather, Ocean's 11

1. would you consider a Mailchain x Farcaster integration? 
2. what's your top 3 favorite movies?

Blockchain data analyst. Interested in data science and blockchain.

Analysis-
https://www.hypersub.xyz/s/yesyes-analytics-qr0v8onrvev4,
https://dune.com/yesyes

I have a longish flight tonight. Was planning to watch John Wick 4 and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant. cc @sriramk.eth

What are you reading/watching this weekend?

Explorer. Code, design, and mountains. Building Shopify. /matallo

This wooden spoon from Lancaster Cast Iron

What’s the best physical object you’ve bought recently?

Interested in ZK, FHE, PUFs, hardware, system design, ai safety, and smart contact security.

Last decade has been non-fiction, but considering switching back to fiction for a while when I have free time again.

What's your favorite genre of reading material? Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction?

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Biz Ops @ Shopify

Other than your PFP, which NFT are you most attached / connected to (if any)?

Poet. Artist. Soul. Authentic Connections First. Poetry to AI art. Writer. Marketer for a decade. Host: /empathy /ashwini 🤍

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Not sure. We've stopped shipping updates to the current desktop app. Have something better coming soon.

Silly one - why does the window refresh every time there's a new notification on desktop and one clicks on it to see it? (:

enzo's dad 🇬🇷 in LA 🌴 eng @ fanatics.live ⚾️ alexloukissas.com

I'm assuming it will work out of the box as a floating 2D window. My sense is there won't be much of an advantage for the first 12-18 months developing for the new paradigm.

I plan to buy one and use as much as possible to get a feel for what UI paradigms are interesting, though. What's the "pull-to-refresh" of XR?

is there a person you'd really like to see join fc that hasn't?

what would you consider as your unique or unfair advantage in the world? where someone walking into kinkos couldn’t copy style.

3 things a DAO must have to be considered enough decentralized according to you