Warpcast

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Account Verifications (Beta 2) 

Verify your phone number and social accounts easily from Settings > Verifications. We now support Github, Discord and LinkedIn. 

Accounts with more verifications will be more likely to get airdrops, rewards and boosts in the feed.

WTF…

People are getting financially incentivized (via a promise of future airdrops) to link all their public identities, where they post different stuff -sometimes even geo location- with their crypto wallets. 

This is very irresponsible. I’m not against establishing Proof of Humanity mechanisms (in fact I’m in favor), I’m just sad they are doing it this way.

For the first time, I’m seriously thinking about leaving Warpcast soon if this keeps going in that direction.

@vocdoni, prev. Bitcoin Magazine | Purple #203 | Cohost: /diy /anthropology /vote /biohacking /cooperatives

I get the reluctance and caution over this kind of stuff, but unfortunately when you open incentives on web3 platforms you get tons of sybil attacks at huge scale. Very likely people will just sybil attack this stuff also - all of these things can be had for a few dollars (which means someone can easily create 100 accounts like these). Really hard to implement "meaningful" gatekeeping that doesn't also stop "real" actors.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

I get why you’re doing it, and I know how much Farcaster/Warpcast needs this kind of verification.

But I don’t agree with how you’re approaching it.

There are other ways to solve this technically.

If someone gets stabbed because someone figured out they have an EOA with $75k and they post on LinkedIn that they’re out at a restaurant (because they linked all their accounts to max out airdrop rewards in a platform built by Merkle that made all that info easily accessible and visible) then yeah, I think Merkle holds some responsibility. Ethically for sure, and maybe even legally in some places depending on how you read the case. Especially taking into account that you can even scrap all this info and make an index of the most succulent users (holding amount + bigger surface of leaks about their personal life).

People has to get informed of these risks, they’re quite relevant.

We're linking public identities together - your X profile, LinkedIn, Github and your public onchain wallets (e.g. the one which has your ENS, which is already deanonymized because most ENS's are recognizable). 

The reason this is important is that it helps link "good" users and developers. Right now, no one can build a useful app with an airdrop mechanic because the sybil attacks are prevalent. If we can make it easier for developers to find valuable users with a sybil resistant mechanic we will see more useful apps and less speculation in the ecosystem.