Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Are you saying buy this coin?
No. I have no opinion on whether you should or should not buy this coin.

Are memecoins good or bad?
Neither. They just are.

Shouldn't you be protecting people?
People are adults and if they're on Farcaster today, they're cryptonative. They are sophisticated (relative to an average non-crypto person) and are capable of making their own decisions.

Why don't you make the feature opt-in?
Opt-in features don't get much usage. Very few features shipped should be opt-in / a setting.

(Deleted original cast because I got the timestamp wrong—it was even earlier.)

> „People on FC are crypto native“ (@dwr.eth)


On Oct 11, 2023 you‘ve posted on X that a WC account can be created without owning crypto

https://x.com/dwr/status/1712185006037283031

Founder /kiwi-news, a decentralized Hacker News

How many of those 70k only show up as funded because you credited them their Warps as USDC?

Coinbase checkout to buy Warps was usable without crypto, right?

You can’t use crypto to pay sign up fees in the App Store. PWAs don’t retain. Solve for X.

We have 70K+ funded wallets in a month. That’s cryptonative.

cognitive science, functional contextualism, tattarrattat

To say that crypto serves no other purpose than speculation is completely deranged. For several years now, you could have bought Ethereum and Solana, and run a low-cost staking node to regain your initial investment. The nature of Ethereum and Solana being decentralized, in terms of how upgradable they are, give you pretty similar rights, at least from a layman legal understanding, as when you are buying a publicly offered stock. There is a mechanical connection between the price of Ethereum and Solana and the protocol's capability of accruing fees. I'm not the only one who's saying this. This is a common opinion also among financial analysts. Not a lawyer DYOR

This all may be just utterly theoretical as most non-crypto people will just leave Warpcast after approximately five minutes, but it'd make sense to project the image that crypto actually serves a valid purpose rather than confirming the common perception of it being just a speculative scheme. 

There's no need to demonize those notifications, but there's also no need to treat them as if they were essential. Making them opt-in rather than opt-out would indeed reduce their use–and there's nothing wrong about it, considering that it's a feature that can backfire. All those responsible adults that can make informed decisions and will benefit from it surely are also capable of checking a box.