80,000 sign ups for the Farcaster waitlist. Averaging roughly 1,000 an hour.

100% with an Ethereum address. 80% with Twitter account. 60% with >0 ETH balance.

When access was available, I was pleading with some of my friends to join this world. Suddenly, as soon as the invite system closed and joining became restricted to the waitlist form, they all flocked to it.

The collective mindset works in mysterious ways.

Father, husband, reader, Web3 enthusiast | Life’s too short for arguments.

Al Ain - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

This sadly shows how the instinctual reactions to plenty/restricted lead to different outcomes. It often shows up to the detriment of the ideal, wherein the deprivation of a once-plenty resource increases demand for it. The invite system & waitlist are just facets of this occurrence happening every day.