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Farcaster

Introducing my first iOS app, Scout Reader for Farcaster 📱

As a long-time Farcaster user, I built Scout to stay better connected to my favorite casters. It’s an RSS-like iPhone and iPad app with organized feeds, offline access, and on-device search—no wallet required.

👉 Download now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6740188182
👉 Explore features: https://scoutreader.app/
🧑‍💻 More on why I built Scout: https://murdo.xyz/2025/01/21/announcing-scout.html

Reviving the "primary address verification" FIP.

When we wrote this a year ago, it seemed like a good idea to allow only EOAs as primary, since SCWs may not be deployed everywhere. Now I am much less sure since most modern smart accounts have crosschain counterfactual addresses.

Should we leave this up to the user, who can verify smart contract addresses at their own risk?

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/141

Music

The bedroom pop guitar, the harshness of the beat, the repetition of the riffs, Antwon's voice rough and echoey over it — all sounds like leaning out of a car driving through a town you knew when you were a different person and thought life would be different; it's summer and you're wondering when everything fell apart

There's an inevitability to the grief in Antwon's forceful delivery and the constancy of the guitar and the beat: "you seemed so sad, I felt the same / I knew you felt a way that I couldn't change", all delivered as facts. No illusory hopes, no wishing it away, no positive spin. Only an acknowledgement of the sadness and its gravity — a recognition poignant in itself because sometimes all we want is just to be heard, to be seen

Feels dumb to say (because surely it's the point of music) but I love a track in which the instrumentation and production add a vital layer to the story being told that couldn't be expressed any other way

The bedroom pop guitar, the harshness of the beat, the repetition of the riffs, Antwon's voice rough and echoey over it — all sounds like leaning out of a car driving through a town you knew when you were a different person and thought life would be different; it's summer and you're wondering when everything fell apart

There's an inevitability to the grief in Antwon's forceful delivery and the constancy of the guitar and the beat: "you seemed so sad, I felt the same / I knew you felt a way that I couldn't change", all delivered as facts. No illusory hopes, no wishing it away, no positive spin. Only an acknowledgement of the sadness and its gravity — a recognition poignant in itself because sometimes all we want is just to be heard, to be seen

Feels dumb to say (because surely it's the point of music) but I love a track in which the instrumentation and production add a vital layer to the story being told that couldn't be expressed any other way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6P1do1__c

> In 2002, before Madlib and MF DOOM finished Madvillainy, the first demo sequence of the album leaked online – early vocal cuts from DOOM, recorded then quickly mixed in LA at Madlib’s Bomb Shelter studio

> In 2002, before Madlib and MF DOOM finished Madvillainy, the first demo sequence of the album leaked online – early vocal cuts from DOOM, recorded then quickly mixed in LA at Madlib’s Bomb Shelter studio

https://album.link/s/0i05SUICZ5jsvfvImWXlIJ

What's on your mind re: Farcaster?

Where can I share additional context / thinking?

fc-updates

coinbasewallet

Let's talk about the future of Coinbase Wallet. ↓

We’re thrilled the Base team is building a Farcaster feed into Coinbase Wallet!

What will this mean?

- Every cast has a bigger audience
- Developers can reach even more people with their frames
- Another well-resourced client building on the protocol

Why Base building on Farcaster matters

Bigger audience — your casts can reach more people without having to sign up for another app or social network.

Larger market for developers — Coinbase Wallet's large existing userbase can easily use frames and complete onchain transactions with their embedded wallet. Ship a frame and immediately go live in multiple apps. 

Increased choice — Coinbase Wallet will offer people another great option to use Farcaster.

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

announcement time: super is joining warpcast

we are joining forces with @dwr.eth and @v to build farcaster into the most important social network on the planet, together

farcaster has never been stronger and i’m grateful for everyone who helped us get here

below is the story and what is happening next

Our current plan

1. Grow the number of daily active users on Farcaster

2. This benefits creators because they have a larger potential audience

3. This also benefits developers because they have a large potential user base

4. Super joining Warpcast allows us to invest more time on growth (no. 1)

5. Base bringing Farcaster into Coinbase Wallet—an app that has millions of existing users—helps with growth (no. 1)

6. We’re working on several big growth initiatives—both product-led (Woj will be helping with this!) and marketing / sales led (more announcements here soon!)

7. We’re investing more time in outbound messaging. You’ve likely seen our X / Twitter account get more active recently. Will be doing more here as well.

Super excited to have @ted join the team!

She took a bet on Farcaster early, did an amazing job with FarCon, Dev Day and a bunch of other growth initiatives last year.

She's going to be working with me to help accelerate growth and outbound marketing.

LFG!

Date night with my wife and it was everything in my power to not be like, "Babe you don't understand, now that Woj and Ted are onboard it's like the avengers"

Don't meet your heroes. Everyone's an idiot.

@anonworld now supports FID credentials!

You can verify your FID is below some number (i.e. < 10K). This is the first credential that isn't token related.

To add:
1. Go to anon.world/credentials
2. Select the "Farcaster FID" credential type
3. SIWF
4. Set the value you want to verify your FID is below

Memes

All these dudes on the internet talking about "cooking something up 🔥"

The cooking:

New York has successfully implemented EIP-1559 on their traffic market

Live the same

Do you know how much $$$ you need to never work again?

I started tracking my expenses at the end of 2021, so finally I have 3-year statistics. This is how much I've spent each year, not including travel:
- 2022 - $8400
- 2023 - $6612
- 2024 - $5876

My lifestyle has gotten more conscious and sustainable throughout the years, explaining the downward trend that contradicts inflation.

Travel cost me either $900 or $2500 a year - depending on the number and intensity of trips. 

So basically if I had $10k a year I would feel very comfortable, with a bit to spare 💜

To get that much in passive income I would need to invest from $100k (10% APY) to $200k (5% APY). Which is what some people earn from a couple of shitcoin trades 😆

And if I want to have kids someday, that amount would probably have to be doubled.

My wish for this year is to start receiving that passive income, hopefully I'll be able to amass enough capital 🙏

How big is that number for you? Or maybe you already live on passive income?

2024 Annual Expenses: $5,876

Lots of ways to live.

Hing

@gings