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1/ I am excited to announce my new channel /arcanum & @hypersub membership ✨

Arcanum means mysterious & specialized knowledge, language, or information accessible/possessed only by the initiated 👀

As an IP Lawyer & Patent Agent, I care about leveraging the value of ideas, while protecting them.

As an artist, photographer, & videographer, I care a lot about building a sustainable creation system in this modern creator economy.

As a writer & educator, I care about building a community of people interested in learning & building.

My goal is to build a place to impart specialized knowledge of:
📝 Obsidian & Personal Knowledge Management
🤖 AI Tools
🎨 Building A Personal Brand & Digital Identity
💡 Monetizing Your IP & Ideas

Arcanum members will get access to cast in the /arcanum channel, a place to ask me questions & tap into my knowledge & experience.

There are 3 tiers with perks described 👇
1) Wanderers
2) Augmenters
3) Worldbuilders

See you there 🫡
https://hypersub.xyz/s/arcanum

My Membership is live ✨ Welcome to the /arcanum 📚

This channel is designed to be a place to tap into the knowledge & creativity we all possess, along with my expertise in IP & the creator economy.

If you find my YouTube videos, writing, or art valuable and want to support me in living my life in the creator economy, please consider joining the arcanum channel 🫡

Members get access to the channel + other perks listed in the cast ⬇️
hypersub.xyz/s/arcanum

Two months ago I began dabbling in coding with js and html. I built a web app and some obsidian plugins. 

A month ago I began building with python to explore ai agents 

Today, I’m beginning to learn rust and solidity to add a blockchain component to my project 

The state of ai code assistants is mind blowing🤯

Still been deep into building and it’s taking up all of my focus lately, aside from YouTube 😊 

What have you been up to? What have I missed?

New: Rewards for Videos! 

Earn 500 leaderboard points by uploading a video each week. We're running this promotion to encourage users to test our new videos feature and give us feedback. 

Videos must have audio and be longer than 10 seconds to qualify.

CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icebreaker.xyz/j4ck • /j4ck • DJ sixsix

What are people’s thoughts on the new minting of casts? 

Very curious to hear as I consider more how it fits into my web3 plans ✨

FC’s collectible feature makes way more sense for artists than Base App’s content coins.

Content coins require artists to hit virality AND know when to sell.  They ask artists to be influencers and traders in addition to making art.  Collectibles allow artists to make money from a single patron, without having to do anything but post their art.

Collectibles encourage 1-to-1 connections rather than 1-to-many for content coins.  I find artists to be much more at ease with the former than the latter.

Content coins require dunking on your audience to make money, creating an adversarial and shallow relationship.  Collectibles function more as patronage/tips - validating the artist and creating a deeper connection between artist and audience.

Ultimately content coins devalue an artist’s work while the rarity and auction mechanic of collectibles enhance the value of artist’s work.

I’ve been using the feature on testnet a couple of days and it makes a ton of sense.  I think it’s going to have a great impact on culture here.

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

fc-updates

New: Collectibles! 

Support your favorite creators by collecting their casts onchain. Each cast can be turned into a unique, 1-of-1 collectible. Just tap the new "collect" icon on a cast to get started. 

Casts can be collected starting at $1. If there are multiple collectors, it goes to the highest bidder. Creators get 90% collectible earnings, and the remaining 10% goes to the protocol rewards. 

We’re excited about collectibles for a few reasons: 
1. Creators earn directly from their audience
2. New creators can earn on their first day
3. Users get to collect a unique piece of Farcaster history

Collectibles will go live tomorrow morning around 9am PT. We're announcing this early so people can be ready to collect their favorite casts when the feature is live! 

Learn more here: https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Collectibles-2306a6c0c10180d7a917c24892662a3c?pvs=74

An interesting update! Will need to look into it more to see how the contract works

New: Video Feeds! 

A new, full screen video feed makes it easy to watch videos from your favorite creators. It also has great gestures for fast navigation including liking, speeding up and commenting on videos. 

It comes with a new video algo that prioritizes videos from people you follow, while also showing you the best videos from across the network. 

Tap any video or the top-right video feed button to launch it.

Starting today, Farcaster sign ups are cheaper.

Any app -- Base, Zapper, Recaster, Firefly -- can now sign up users for $0.20 onchain.

In the Farcaster app, we're moving sign ups from $3 to $1 (we have to pay the app stores fees). We also offer free sign ups for people who connect an eligible X / Twitter account.

Been waiting for this update! I think it will really help incentivize clients to onboard people to the farcaster network, and affordable for them to sponsor the fees

We 2x'd developer rewards!

Twice as many eligible mini apps and twice as much money

I hit 20,000 on YouTube ✨ 

Wild that 2 months ago I was at 10k, seems like things are picking up 🚀 

I’ve been busy building out my channel, but also working on a few apps as I learn to code with AI. 

I’ve been a bit MIA from farcaster because coding is taking up 100% of my focus haha. The learning curve is steep, but the rewards have been huge! 

Excited to share more soon! 🫡

Ads get a bad rap, but they work

Most people won’t pay upfront, so attention or data becomes the currency

Incentives just repackage this same trade: “Do this and we’ll reward you”

Whether it’s a token, a badge, or a boost, it’s still buying behavior

Crypto isn’t ad-free, it’s ads rebranded as incentives

Also a more direct relationship between incentivized and those being incented 

Reduces take rate potential

Obsidian

Obsidian 1.9.3 (early access) is now available for desktop and mobile, with more improvements to Bases:

- New Cards view lets you display files in a grid layout
- "New item" button creates a file that matches filters of the current view
- Sort menu lets you easily sort items