AMA since it's a travel day for me - could be about joining the Farcaster team, Bountycaster, VC, making a documentary, startups, nomading, etc

Developer ecosystem @farcaster, co-founder @bountycaster. Previously: co-founder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, co-producer @ethereumfilm

/ethereum foundation | opinions are my own but more than likely they come from Vitalik's blog paragraph.xyz/@chaskin

I'm one of the few people that still is optimistic about token curated registries

Is there anything from the early days of Ethereum that failed that you think might be worth giving another shot because the infra is more mature?

Crypto culture and markets | Newsletter & podcast: https://www.kaloh.xyz | Working on https://www.indexy.xyz

Daniel and I talked about this quite a bit, we feel like we made the right major decisions we could at the time but smaller product decisions def think we could have enabled longer tail of tokens earlier on (don't think that would have moved the needle on a sustainable business yet)

Would you have done anything different on bounty caster looking back?

maxxing on /morpho 🦋 | pursuing a higher self w /higher-athletics | consistently curious

Learning how a small, really senior team of mostly staff eng operates

What is an unexpected benefit of joining Merkle team?

Founder far.quest & @wieldlabs.eth. Investing miy.com ventures. FID #274. Previously Square/Cash App. https://hiimnico.xyz/

Since we had built on Farcaster the past year we were familiar with most but we hadn't built a frame v2 (only v1) so wasn't familiar with the pain points around v2 debugging

/frontend dev・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・UI/UX abstractionist・DeFi/web3 builder・dropout・24・prev /dydx, ritual.net・x.com/darryl__yeo

My unconventional one was while being nomadic for a few years bringing a water filter with me so I never had to worry about the water situation. 100% rate of getting checked during TSA security but made international travel easier esp in countries where I couldn't drink tap

Past: PM at YC and a16zcrypto startups. /purple DAO member. Looking for my next opportunity. Running Duoverse Studio - https://www.duoversestudio.com

We approached them after getting an acquisition offer from another company that we were considering

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dev

A little tired since been on the road for 2 weeks (Denver, LA, Tucson) but excited to get back home

Simple question: how are you feeling today?

I feel we're in a bull market and the regulatory landscape is set up for insane positive momentum in crypto

Do you feel we are in a bear market? Or have any hot takes about market cycles generally?

EVMaverick | equal parts degen 🤝 regen | Enjoyer of music, golf and comedy

No, sticking with Bountycaster for foreseeable future since couldn't find the perfect new name and now not a priority for us

Have you chosen a new name/domain for Bountycaster yet?

Web3 Developer 👾 Frame Builder on Warpcast 🌐 NFT Creator 💎 Making helpful guides for everyone

What is that documentary you are talking about?

User growth to get to a sustainable business model

What has been most challenging for you as a founder?

product engineer @ inlay;

writer, icon, retired rave queen

Took me awhile to get out of the path I was taught was traditional career success (was pre-med starting college, worked in tradfi to climb the corporate ladder) so would have majored in something I was passionate about and felt comfortable pursing interests earlier

top thing you would do differently if you knew then what you know now (could be anything)

firefits

Use packing cubes and never check a bag at the airport

what’s your favorite travel hack? 

also travel pics in /firefits

music ~ travel ~ movies |
/theoffice & /dv & /parksrec mod | /sonata’s biggest fan

extremely blessed highly favored always grateful

Past year is Permutation City, all time is prob Project Hail Mary

favorite fiction reads of the past year + all time

Met in NY through my husband since they had previously worked together at 0x

Founders

Working on Real Fun

Fixing the space one token at a time

Build in public, share learnings and experiences in /founders, post on Farcaster to get user feedback

What's the best way to utilize and grow your platform exposure with Farcaster?

Working on Real Fun and just looking for our people 😊

Animations
https://linktr.ee/miguelgarest

Back to NY from Tucson (visiting sister in law)

Se siente mejor y no. Puedo amar más y más que antes. Lo que ella ha dicho siempre importa. 

Cambia de cuerpo, altera la mente, pero me arrodillo igual. ¡De ro

The usual phone, laptop, headphones chargers