Farcaster

As a noob here I dedicated to starting a streak by sharing usefull farcaster stuff here on a daily basis. 
Here's the first one: 

Want to lookup casts containing a string of text?
You can do that on Searchcaster : searchcaster.xyz

I think it gets overloades sometimes (running slow) but you can run it locally  or use the API if it's useful to you.

I came across this collection of awesome Farcaster links and thought it might be helpful for some of my fellow degens here.

I came across this collection of awesome Farcaster links and thought it might be helpful for some of my fellow degens here. 

https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

crypto

Reminder: the onboarding experience for normies is still brutal. Choosing a wallet, L2 complexity, bridging, fees/gas... 12 words to generate a seed phrase? No wonder many are intimidated. Let's keep it real and acknowledge that crypto is hard.

@vrypan raises an important point about the tradeoffs of snapchains design. If we only have 10 nodes that can validate messages isn’t that bad for decentralization? 

Let’s start with the problem that Snapchain is solving. Our deltagraph network lets any hub add a new message at any time. As the network grows, failures between nodes increase and delays become inevitable. 

You have to be able to “check” your sync state with a large percentage of the network in a short amount of time and this breaks down quickly. When it does, users will complain about messages moving very slowly between apps, which will make them less likely to use Farcaster, and less likely for apps to be built.

Very interesting conversation between @v and @vrypan.eth. Here are some thoughts and questions:

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), /weatherxm (work), @l--o--l (fun). Also https://paragraph.xyz/@purplesubmarine

Happy to see people like me here already 🤣 
Let's keep the momentum going with my first cast 🤩


Crypto native strategic thinker since '14 (https://radx.eu). Contrarian with a built-in band pass filter for noise. | DYOR | Casts are not financial advice!

Kristof Van de Reck

@xpedite