serendipity

/serendipity | Founder of /fcny | Building a personalized health app powered by AI

It’s dangerous to live in a city where you can get homemade giant slices of carrot cake at 3:30 in the morning

daos

Anyone feeling disillusioned with DAOs might consider that a couple of decades after the founding of the USA, all of its living founders felt quite disillusioned with that experiment as well.

Anyone feeling disillusioned with DAOs might consider that a couple of decades after the founding of the USA, all of its living founders felt quite disillusioned with that experiment as well. 

https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-fears-of-a-setting-sun-by

layover in japan, want to buy fun vending machine snacks but no pasmo card 😔

Before NFTs, my main gig was as a blacksmith jeweller. I made and sold over 3000 hand forged wedding bands mostly out  of titanium, stainless steel, iron, sometimes gold. Physical or digital tokens are equally arbitrary;  intangible value derives mostly from assigned meaning due to the story.

new one from pw. sort of the canonical “how we lost wikipedia.” larry sanger liked and shared it, which is the best i could possibly hope for

new one from pw. sort of the canonical “how we lost wikipedia.” larry sanger liked and shared it, which is the best i could possibly hope for https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-the-regime-captured-wikipedia

Farcaster

Why would you build on Farcaster — frames, actions, clients — if Merkle / Warpcast will just clone it if successful?

1. Outside of trading (Coinbase, Uniswap), there's no successful (at-scale, revenue generating) crypto-based business today.

2. The biggest constraint for all crypto app growth is users. There are not enough people using / "in" crypto today. The market needs to expand based on increasing the amount of consumer utility provided.

3. Our goal with Farcaster (and Warpcast) is to get enough scale where developers are able to build meaningful businesses without having to onboard more people to Farcaster and/or crypto themselves.

4. Separately, if your product is really a just a feature of another product, your best bet at building as a business around it is finding the Top 1% power users of said feature and giving them as many bells, whistles and knobs so they are willing to pay you.

5. We actively try to support other Farcaster apps in the ecosystem...

Dan is correct.
Products will be built on Farcaster.
I want to use it as the social login for crypto.
For both online *and* offline worlds.
Which is different from all pre-existing use cases of other networks.
Twitter login is closest, but it's nowhere near as open.

Ethereum

Security, austrian school. Developing noble cryptography: audited js libraries for web3. https://paulmillr.com/noble

The new ETH client by @gakonst and @paradigm is live.

All historical transactions (aka “archive node”) fit in just 2.3TB. Full node is 1.2TB. Syncing from genesis takes 50 hours. Can be ran on a cheap pc: no need to pay for 3rd party RPC which tracks users.

cto & general partner @paradigm. working with /rust on /ethereum. building /reth and /foundry. https://gakonst.com

A research-driven technology investment firm. https://paradigm.xyz

The new ETH client by @gakonst and @paradigm is live.

All historical transactions (aka “archive node”) fit in just 2.3TB. Full node is 1.2TB. Syncing from genesis takes 50 hours. Can be ran on a cheap pc: no need to pay for 3rd party RPC which tracks users.

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/06/reth-prod

Niko

@feg