Base

The first snow always brings a childlike wonder.

You can't control everything, but you can control your response to what comes.

Life’s most important lessons come from unexpected places, the ones you don’t see coming.

Time doesn’t wait for anyone, but it shapes us in unexpected ways. Embrace the moment.

Dreams are the blueprints, but action is the foundation—build your future with both.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is walk away and let life unfold naturally.

Better, use social signals to determine the “right” token

ordered pizza at this italian restaurant and they gave me warm cheesy bread with arugula on it

scammed again

a collective funding mechanism for +170 Ethereum L1 R&D maintainers 🌿 stewarding our commons infra


my goal with @protocolguild is to build an institution that matches & exceeds the EF* wrt brand awareness, legitimacy, legibility, consistency, & protocol funding allocated

high bars + long way to go 🫡 but that's the aim

*ofc not apples to apples - diff. mandates, constraints

Farcaster

The Warpcast wallet is an important milestone.

I can’t believe it took~30 years of the web and ~15 years of crypto before we got a proper wallet integrated into a social app.

But we have it.

Now we can finally start turning all that time spent online into gradual accumulation of NFTs and coins. Both here and on other sites, using Farcaster integration.

Great work @v and @dwr.eth.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

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

Ethereum

Ethereum Protocol Studies

should we have a /eps for Ethereum Protocol Studies?

The /eps channel is officially launched!

There's a link to the Ethereum Protocol Studies group in the channel description.

It's on week 1, day 4, but anyone interested in the protocol can still join. 

Hope we can make a thriving community in this new channel! 

Ethereum needs us!

Podcasts

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Ep. 9 of /dialectic w @jacob is live.

Jacob is co-founder & CEO of /zora, a platform that allows anyone to tokenize media. He's spent his career thinking about how blockchains, tokens, markets, and ideas enable internet-native coordination.

They're building on Stewart Brand's premise that "information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive.” In an internet era where content is abundant and effectively free, it is also expensive to consume and create—not by way of money, but time.

We discuss a world where markets around attention and content allow better coordination around what information is worth our time.

We also discuss why memes are so powerful, speculation vs. gambling, reflections on popular crypto ideas and Zora's history, Coinbase and co-creating USDC, and many other topics that showcase Jacob's generative creativity, unique ways of thinking, and inspirations.

https://pods.media/dialectic/9-jacob-horne-markets-for-what-matters?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

“Speculation is imagination with action.” 
 
@jacob on how speculation can be a superpower and markets can turn PVP energy into positive sum outcomes:

“Speculation is how you express an opinion.  It is how you can take some agency over what you actually want to see happen in the world.

“People conflate speculation and gambling. [You can ask] Is this zero-sum speculation or positive-sum speculation? Betting is zero-sum.

Positive-sum information markets can lead to the creation of information that is durable and useful to the people consuming it.”

/dialectic ep. 9 with Jacob Horne is available on all platforms.

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