A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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Stop thinking of them as wallet addresses, they're user IDs.
Stop thinking of them as wallets, they're user accounts.
Stop thinking of them as chains, they're just another type of data storage.

That's how we win over web2 devs, and getting web2 devs to use blockchains is the only way crypto can find PMF.

Neovim enjoyer, "a gift to the culture" at /thirdweb

Blockchains are just databases
Smart contracts are just APIs

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
building /daimo ✳️ 

Another type of data storage. With different advantages and disadvantages.

> they’re just another type of data storage

Idk, even at 1c per transaction it is vastly slower and more expensive than any other “data storage”

Successful onchain apps do things you couldn’t do offchain. Polymarket etc

Stop thinking of them as gas, they are costs for using public utility services

Stop thinking of them as EIP protocols, they are standard programming interfaces 

Stop thinking of them as cryptocurrencies, they are built in payment rails