Haven't done one of these in a while, AMA! Farcaster, Warpcast, crypto, tech, etc.

Since we've had a lot of new folks join recently, will also a share a few links below.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Could farcaster have been built in a world where bitcoin and ethereum and all other blockchains had never been invented?

With the same permissionlessness/credible neutrality properties?

Bit of a leading question because i think the answer is yes.

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Who maintains the ledger of identities to keypairs? What stops that entity from getting corrupted in the future?

DNS can be mucked with. Just a matter of Overton Window shifting.

> If it's good enough for the entire internet to run on then probably good enough for a text communication protocol on top

Skate to wear the puck is going!

> If it's good enough for the entire internet to run on then probably good enough for a text communication protocol on top

Skate to wear the puck is going!

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1515452833591562242

If it's good enough for the entire internet to run on then probably good enough for a text communication protocol on top

And if it does get mucked with then we have bigger problems no?

I like the "Overton Window" framing for this response. Sounds much less tin-foil-hatty.