Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Are content coins good? A lot of ink spilled recently about content coins. Here's what I believe: 1. People trying new thing / models / ideas are good! Even if a given thing / model / idea has the potential to be abused, if there's potential for it to be used constructively, worth trying. 2. No one is forcing you to buy anything. You can literally log off and be protected from the potential bad outcomes. 3. Just because norms exist at a point in time doesn't mean the norms can't be changed. Changing norms can be good! 4. If you're getting religious over what is essentially a file format—ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155—you're in too deep. Most people won't care what format it is. What they will care about is what "job to be done" and how they feel interacting with it. 5. If everyone treats content coins as "number go up machines and bail before attention tries up Keynesian Beauty Contest" then yes, most people will have a bad time. However, if through quantity / frequency / norm shifting that change... 1/n

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6. I genuinely believe that iteration / UX can make the average content coin look like a "tip" or a "collect" from a creator—while still having the ability to allow for the small number of viral coins accrue more value to the creator through trading fees. 7. What does that mean for NFTs? I don't know. I think different approaches to content are good. What's the difference between a 3-part 3 hour movie trilogy and a 9 episode prestige television series in 2025? 8. The fundamental issue with all onchain content / creators is the small number of people with 1) a funded crypto wallet 2) actively using it. The way for any of these models to be proven successful is growing the number of users with funded wallets who are actively transacting.

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Are content coins good? Sure, if your bar is doing something new, no matter how hollow. But if you’re building the future of crypto: with access, financial sovereignty, and credibility in mind, this is a cop-out. Here’s why: 1. Experimentation is easy when it’s low-risk. ERC20s with meme slogans aren’t brave. What is brave? Building infrastructure that lasts. Launching protocols that stand up to regulation. Supporting DeFi when it’s unfunded and untrendy. 2. “You don’t have to buy” isn’t an excuse. When a @coinbase exec shills 6-figure microcaps, it is market signaling. That kind of attention warps incentives, draws scammers, and distracts devs from doing real work. 3. Norms aren’t sacred, but some values are. Crypto wasn’t built to become a side-show of attention-grabbing pumps. It was built to rebuild trust, access, and systems. If you abandon that, you’re not edgy—you’re irrelevant.

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why do you always have to be so reasonable and balanced with your takes good take though :)

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It’s wild that people will throw $50 at Twitch subs or YouTube SuperChats but see content coins as scammy by default. Culture gap

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