Farcaster

What is the valuable asset that a decentralized social network is securing?

In Ethereum, it's primarily ether. What's the ether of social networks?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Provenance of ideas. In the emerging idea economy, having cryptographic lineage to where those ideas came from is going to be increasingly relevant and valuable.

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), @l--o--l (fun). devcoin:$lemon3

idk about provenance just yet but certainly off to a good start. 

- anchoring proofs into source of truth (blockchains) for time stamp gets us proof of existence. One may rewrite history in FC. @vrypan.eth wrote a parable about this. Couldn’t link. 

- does the oldest signed idea make it an original?

Probably this one? https://paragraph.xyz/@purplesubmarine/2026-political-turmoil-around-farcaster
But I'm not sure it it actually makes the point...

Ethereum builder & people connector. Juicebox, Revnet, Defifa & Footy App

Those are great mental models. Heard wrt no og ideas. People will ‘own’ them via nfts & what not. Someone will be first according to the clock. Will be super interesting to see how this all plays out.

In former times I was building a data pipeline & lake for proofs that included ‘forward sealing’. The idea there always you could create ACLs (off chain yet using cryptographic primitives) that enable authorized forks. It’s a project I may pick back up. 

Must find @vrypan.eth’s fable. Hold me beer

I think idea flow is more like an Ouroboros, no beginning and no end. Or maybe more like a mycelium network where ideas split and merge and flow to where they're needed.

I think there's no such thing as an "original" idea, it's just a convenient abstraction because doing proper provenance is hard. Very useful though.