See the cast below this in the thread.

Essentially it’s unoriginal, unnecessary, and likely just a play for client lock-in.

See the cast below this in the thread.

Essentially it’s unoriginal, unnecessary, and likely just a play for client lock-in.
https://warpcast.com/thumbsup.eth/0xa8f32dad

Warpcast

"Shit We Did Before WC Wallet" (Exhibit A)

For context: This is me and my cousin about how to bet $bracky in-feed. He is a 24 year old, studied Accounting at Dayton, huge sports fan, open to idea of tokens... a PERFECT person to bring onchain!

Now we actually can. 

Choo choo. 🚂

As someone building a consumer facing app on top of this rich-social-feed-that-plays-nice-with-crypto, I totally disagree with you. 

See example below for one of the key frictions it solves for a net new user to WC, who just wants to come in and make transactions in-feed:

writing stuff about decentralization • thumbsup.me

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

Seems we’re talking about new users who are both already wallet holders and interested in having a connected wallet but also don’t know much about using wallets. 

I’ll agree that in terms of on-boarding new users to wallets by way of Farcaster it makes sense. In any case, I’m not saying there’s no use case for it. 

My main point was it’s not innovative adding wallets in to every social app. It has been done over and over again. All the way back to the discord days with Bot wallets.

It’s also not strictly necessary though it’s clear from your anecdotal  example that it could solve a headache for a group of inexperienced users, which is probably enough to make it worth having, from Merkle’s perspective. 

At present though its needs to be funded externally so one must have some familiarity with crypto and wallets to get started. So I’m sure you’ll still be getting some funny messages.

It does create a certain friction and thus a kind of lock-in to WC, as I said.

As someone building a consumer facing app on top of this rich-social-feed-that-plays-nice-with-crypto, I totally disagree with you. 

See example below for one of the key frictions it solves for a net new user to WC, who just wants to come in and make transactions in-feed:

https://warpcast.com/tldr/0xaa39823a

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

1. Client lock in. Especially for new users. 

2. No we don’t. At least as far as I can see there is no way to export the key yet. Please instruct me if you know how.

How does it promote lock in? We have the mnemonic