I guess I started an accidental AMA on which parts of the crypto space are good and which I'm so far not excited about, along with other big picture vision questions:

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1827583576751181961

You should feel free to ask questions here too! Let's see if Farcaster can come up with higher-quality questions than the other app :)

How can we offer decentralized access to content? Http is not good enough any more. Ipfs feels unusable when it comes to normal users (without http gateways). Thoughts?

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), /weatherxm (work), @l--o--l (fun). Also https://paragraph.xyz/@purplesubmarine

Decentralized will always be slow if you only use peer to peer networks imo, and there's not really a reason to put users through that. Just marry the two: fast web2 gateways with a web3 protocol. That's what we've done all along ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My dream blog engine:

- Posts as long casts stored on IPFS.
- Casts embed the posts allowing me to "publish" them.
- A channel only for my blog posts, sorted by date.
- Cast replies are the comments.
- Channel notifications for new posts.

Tada! An easy to publish, easy to read, 100% decentralized blog.

RSS+++

There are many types of decentralization. Farcaster’s global state model is fast. One way to stay decentralized but provide a user friendly experience is combining these two.

Everyone is from somewhere. Cofounder and CEO of Pinata. https://www.pinata.cloud/farcaster

There are many types of decentralization. Farcaster’s global state model is fast. One way to stay decentralized but provide a user friendly experience is combining these two. https://warpcast.com/vrypan.eth/0x354c1b89