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Brian Armstrong

What are you most excited about for crypto in 2025? for me, in random order... 1. Stablecoin payments 2. Prediction markets 3. The rise of the self custodial "super apps" 4. Decentralized social 5. Base 6. Getting legislation passed in the US 7. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve 8. Tokenized traditional securities 9. Getting capital formation onchain 10. Getting perpetual futures approved in the US

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Grok 3 is super impressive, gave quite a detailed answer to this question. Much better than GPT o3-mini-high

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Bet 10 USDC on Canada last night in a frame and won!

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Farcaster is for builders.

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opened for Liva K this Saturday at Madarae in SF, epic afro set https://on.soundcloud.com/ibLaxo7ZaGfEfij18

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Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks

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Lanterns lighting up a random street in Taipei during the Lantern Festival 🎇🏮

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It seems like "The Bitter Lesson" from AI is just a general lesson for the design of any system with emergence. It's very fun to tinker with a system's details but a simple design with emergence always works better http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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I actually really love how america has this deep level of culture of people (in this case, both the driver and the company execs) willing to be disobedient to authority in service of higher principles

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@typedarray.eth

Introducing Ponder 0.9 We built a SQL-based alternative to GraphQL, with live query support and a TanStack Query integration. Apps & websites that use Ponder for indexing are about to feel much faster →

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farcaster is and should be the place where onchain culture and ideas originate, then go mainstream.

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I also hope to see the EF index more on building bridges with the traditional corporate world (and not just TradFi, but other industries too). In my professional services experience (Big Four Partner, evangelizing the use of blockchain and smart contracts for 10+ years whenever I can), senior decision makers (SVP, C-suite, and Board level) are generally clueless about not only the tech, but even the existence of Ethereum or anything outside of Bitcoin. Blockchains are still perceived as a tech fad among edgy CIOs back in 2017 and I want to dispel that perception and make them more mainstream / top of mind for corporate use cases where credibly neutral settlement, traceability of parts or transactions, immutable registries, etc are needed. I’m not worried about retail adoption nor DeFi, I’m worried about the Fortune 1000 leaders largely ignoring the tech and thinking it’s just a giant casino

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... Explicit *non-goals* are: * Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset * Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform * Become an arena for vested interests * Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.

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We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s * Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed * Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer * Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management ...

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Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo. Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.

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It's interesting how AI is changing the game on old concerns around legalese.

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Really, all of cypherpunk / free software / ... is just trying to preserve boundaries that were unquestioned in the year 1900. * Your device serves you, not some gov or corp overlord * You can repair and modify your device to better serve you * Your private conversations are private * Your private money is private

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I scraped Farcaster data and found 400k+ addresses with 40k+ ETH on Mainnet and Base. No other social network has $120M in "dry powder." Yet by crypto standards, we have so much room to grow. Announcing /warpcash, an airdrop for all users with ETH addresses on Farcaster. https://warped.art/airdrop

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