proxy studio

an early morning hunt to try and identify the farcaster user who minted all of these base subdomains & listed them for outrageous prices has led me down and extremely interesting Base rabbithole

highlights include:
- account abstraction
- mass faking active wallets to receive meme token airdrops
- collecting all those airdrops, selling them
- a user named "gamblingjesus.eth" 
- inactive farcaster accounts (hi @degenxbt)

we really exist in such an adversarial environment

may only make sense to mint any names when you can prove you have any relation/history to the name

or a mechanism to reclaim it from someone clearly manipulating

contributing to base eco via /basedstudio • /veil, /rebase and more • d/acc • network states

I mean this always happens, it’s part of why I didn’t mint. It’s a cool project just doesn’t really get me excited after so many cycles of domain squatting. I have a good ens :)

i got lucky with wake dot eth. ultra specific, vanity domain names are nice to have... i guess... but they're rarely worth any trouble. support is always mixed, perks are pretty tepid, and it's trivially easy to sweep through and claim every noteworthy word.

just, meh. it's a usually fundraising maneuver and always a boring one.