PhiMarHal

@phimarhal

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It costs so little to keep an old UI trucking. Devs love to be authoritative, even when they work in spaces about freedom. Sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you churn; either way why take the chance? One of the coolest bits of crypto to me was the idea we could craft various UIs for the same underlying protocol. PoolTogether and Liquity have embraced this. You also have mega interfaces like DefiSaver or Contango, stacking on top of defi protocols. This remains niche in prod. But perhaps AI will bring the concept to fruition in a few years. As we see current models already oneshotting decent web designs, it doesn't seem so outlandish to me to imagine we could have protocols/websites that just describe their intent clearly, and a LLM builds you an interface for it based on your prompt for style.

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Whenever I get a claimdrop, I get it right away and sell too early. Whenever I get an airdrop, I notice it after and sell too late. Who's building something to solve this? (to solve me)

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Are applications to ETHDenver through SporkDAO still open? Friend of mine went through the registration, everything seemingly fine. But her account has been on "Application Submitted! Check back in 1 business day for your ticket" for 5 days now. No SPORK/sSPORK token showing up either.

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Interesting confluence in social media rewards for me personally, in this instant. I found out yesterday I got a $15k airdrop from r/datadao. Which is now a chain called Vana, and they airdropped VANA tokens to people who registered. All I remember doing is submitting my Reddit account. Maybe they airdropped based on volume of the Reddit account, or maybe even on perceived usefulness (using AI to judge relevance?). Perhaps it was just a flat airdrop and everyone got lucky. I heard literally nothing about Vana until Debank showed me I had those $15k sitting in a wallet. Which I assumed was one of those scam tokens, but nope. (also was $60k at peak, ~1 month ago. A reminder I really should say to hell with leaking my data, and just connect all my wallets on Debank.) So that's Reddit.

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Brother is propping up my account so much I get Rewards notifications. Honestly Farcaster, just send the USDC to @frdysk

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Mobile wallets have terrible UX. That's one problem. But more importantly, do they not have terrible security too? It seems like a huge downgrade from hardware wallets. What am I missing? (I hope the answer is not "passkey wallets" because that seems even worse.)

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@clanker Are you awake, machine? If so, tell me: do you accept videos as inputs for your tokens, or just images?

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@clanker O machine god, will you answer my summons today?

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Hello @clanker , are we ready to make a new token today?

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@clanker Speak to me, o machine.

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A moment of silence for alien-conspiracy-guy. https://time.com/7176658/inside-capitol-hills-latest-ufo-hearings/ Only needed a little more conviction, to hold out longer without deleting. In his mind this would have been evidence, and instead of shame he would feel vindicated. This is a cryptocurrency post by the way. *I* am never selling my ETH.

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Did anyone figure out why the average ETH supply rate on Scroll Aave has been hovering around 5-10% for days now? Post airdrop I assumed it was everyone unwinding, but this is surprisingly resilient.

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A small UI win for Metamask would be to let you hide addresses with 0 ETH on the currently selected network. Rabby does this and goes beyond, by ordering your addresses by size, and multichain. This is actually more opinion/abstraction than I want. It results in less info ultimately - "where is my money". Forces me to delve deeper to find where's the money. I'd prefer simply hiding 0 ETH addresses per network. Less clicks.

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Metamask Mobile exists in this odd space where they'll let you set your password to "abcdef", but should you try to take a screenshot of your seedphrase, it's explicitely disabled. I'm sure it's sensible pragmatically. But on the user side it makes for a funny experience. First you breathe a sigh of relief because FINALLY, the service you just want to sign up for doesn't force you to use a 24 characters password with alphanumeric and special characters. Then you're greeted with 12 words you have to write down, and you realise it was a trap all along.

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Composability is magic. I never get tired of it. My tiny toy app automatically ends up on block explorers. Displaying the onchain NFTs and all. Same would go for marketplaces, or wallets with NFT support. You don't have to go and talk to anyone. You deploy your code permissionlessly, and then it lives forever and spreads anywhere with incentives to do generalized data retrieval. How COOL is that? All blockchain apps are inherently viral. Not virality in the sense of capturing human attention. But definite virality in extending its existence, in time and scope. It's impossible to get away from the idea this is how things should work. The World Computer. This definition of Ethereum resonated with me when I heard about it, and I still feel it more than anything, even if the space moves to "ultrasound money", "digital cement", or any other framing. Although, I do like "the infinite garden". It's another great metaphor to capture this feeling.

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This... This is the best day of my life. I vow to keep this achievement pristine and unsullied, by never ever casting anything viral again.

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Finally, the boost is gone. Time to plug my Soundcloud. I deployed a smart contract on Scroll today: https://contributors.loiyaa.com/ It's a collaborative onchain story. The story behind the story: https://mirror.xyz/loiyaa.eth/SSbs_q0TyPyLLXJszUkIUtgP7OzIYQxKMNL30ak43C8 The story behind the story behind the story: I did not code a single line of this myself. From the contract to the frontend, it's all AI. Claude Sonnet 3.5 specifically. The whole process was a long back-and-forth chat. Sharing my ideas with Claude, implementing its code outputs, testing it, coming back to ask for fixes or improvements. And now, the result works!! Kinda! Sort of! Having a virtual assistant always willing to entertain your ideas, always here to answer your questions, always okay with coding under your arbitrary limits, is such an amazing superpower. For most things digital, we're only bound by our willpower these days.

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Contrarian urge to counter the contrarian urge.

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