Sebastian Bürgel

@scbuergel

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Much easier to pretend scaling is solved (even though you know that will NEVER be true), pretend privacy and security don't matter (even though you don't care, you know this isn't true for any of your normie friends) and focus on "web3 Twitter" because every bottom 50% IQ VC LP can follow that THAT is what corrupts this ecosystem - not EF, not even X

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I'll strongman the unpopular argument that the EF should refocus on building max value-aligned tools and products The subtractive mindset of EF is a great idea in theory to foster a healthy ecosystem and level playing field. But in practice, it has enabled a max value-extractive mindset among leading tools and products, which year by year stray further from the Cypherpunk values you try to promote through (actually great) blogs and social media outreach. Specifically, I see: - Virtually no Ethereum wallets or apps on FOSS mobile marketplaces: https://warpcast.com/scbuergel/0x2dded415 - No major wallets or apps supporting light client verification or anonymous RPC transport, and therefore - No incentive to develop or promote resilience services like these, but instead - More fragmentation around commercial services with corner-cutting for Web2-style VC-pleasing vanity growth metrics ...

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Cool, I didn't expect us to agree on that :)

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... In hindsight (which isn't about regret but learning), imagine if: - Mist had shaped a wallet landscape grounded in Cypherpunk values rather than commercial wallets discovering "swap fee extraction great" -> "selling order flow greater" -> "institutional value extraction infra is the greatest" -> rekt user/infra/ecosystem - DeFi interfaces had started as decentralized, rather than relying on .org/.fi/.com domains, leading to regulatory issues, self-censorship, and user tracking to pad vanity metrics - There had been early demand for full-stack "world computer" technology, instead of today's casino tech dominance EF could still turn the ship around - though at higher cost now - by building tools and services that serve as lighthouses, inducing demand for Cypherpunk-aligned infrastructure and UX that proves decentralized apps can be superior. The VC-driven web3 app industry won't get us there but EF could be the counterweight - by building!

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I'll strongman the unpopular argument that the EF should refocus on building max value-aligned tools and products The subtractive mindset of EF is a great idea in theory to foster a healthy ecosystem and level playing field. But in practice, it has enabled a max value-extractive mindset among leading tools and products, which year by year stray further from the Cypherpunk values you try to promote through (actually great) blogs and social media outreach. Specifically, I see: - Virtually no Ethereum wallets or apps on FOSS mobile marketplaces: https://warpcast.com/scbuergel/0x2dded415 - No major wallets or apps supporting light client verification or anonymous RPC transport, and therefore - No incentive to develop or promote resilience services like these, but instead - More fragmentation around commercial services with corner-cutting for Web2-style VC-pleasing vanity growth metrics ...

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💯 - folks have asked me why I wrote my Safe transaction script (https://github.com/pcaversaccio/safe-tx-hashes-util) as pure Bash script and not eg via Python. Minimal dependency. You have to only trust Linux (and Foundry) in this case. The current world is dominated by dependency bloat. This is bad and insecure engineering. Period.

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I stopped being bothered by financial grift But attention grift is what makes my X feed feel like "late stage Twitter" now

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Under "reverify" I can't connect to Warpcaster, it just suggests some other wallets

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That's incredibly cool! Maybe `localhost:3000` might confuse some (and make others quite happy ;)

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people like privacy

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Calling them "transparent chains" is copium. Should call them "doxxer chains".

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"privacy" isn't a cypherpunk "narrative" it is the normal thing we can just call private chains normal chains and everything else "transparent chains" seeing each other's tx history / balances / spying on counterparties is the version that needs explanation or "narrative"

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I'm a Farcaster noob, how can I use this? I can't find out how to link this to my Farcaster account (if that's even intended).

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Meta feedback: screen rotate doesn't seem to work on my @warpcast and thus the smaller text is super hard to read here. But thx for building this!!!

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Status check on web3 dogfooding culture: we are nowhere and that needs to change! If you build a (d)app, release it #FDroid first 🙏

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Goodhart's Law should be mandatory reading for anyone working on comparative growth metrics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

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What's your anon trust assumption? Do you go hardcore with a different VPN connection etc for each identity or do you not care so much if a handful of engineers in big tech corps could link two anon identities?

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Very cool, but can we hold off on onboarding normies until we have ubiquitous privacy? Otherwise, it feels like a privacy scandal in the making

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I want to agree with you but the problem with [De]Fi degens is that they say "lmao, Binance fixes this"

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