The economy is tanking but my wife is scheduled to be induced this evening and give birth to our daughter, our first child. 

So I busted out this 26-year-old pu’erh I’ve been saving for a special occasion. L’chaim. /tea

The night my wife was induced with our first child, we went to Wendy's 😬

This is an interesting experiment to onboard users into crypto. Buy an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and build crypto onboarding into the customer journey. 📶

E147: GDP Onchain. Primero Latinoamérica. Con @santiagoroel Santiago R Santos. En @10ampro https://t.co/mqV430dzbu

Latin America is the first market we intend to run our playbook @inversion_cap 

Why? Because everyone there wants to hold dollars vs local currency and it’s one of the largest remittance corridors in the world (US-LatAm)

Consumers deserves a better service than what existing

Santiago R Santos

This is an interesting experiment to onboard users into crypto. Buy an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and build crypto onboarding into the customer journey. 📶 
https://x.com/santiagoroel/status/1907791255716659433

Farcaster

This is killing the Farcaster web experience...

If I'm working on my Laptop, I'm not going to use my phone to check FC. I'm just going to stop checking FC.

i used to think replyguys were cringe but now i miss them.

they have been replaced with the quote bloke

Reporter at Drop Site News, co-host at Breaking Points/Counter Points

Let me start with two analogies and then go into the substance.

(1) First: as the left puts it, Donald Trump is a convicted felon who attempted a coup. Does that mean every real estate deal signed during his first term is invalid?

(2) Second: as the right puts it, Joe Biden is a senile warmonger who misused his autopen. Does that mean every pardon and visa issued during his term is invalid?

Point: you can actually understand the dysfunction of Latin America through the increasingly dysfunctional North America. Yet every business has to play the game on the field, even as crazy instability rocks the center of government.

(3) Next, on Honduras specifically: the new left-wing government that oppposes ZEDE is also reportedly connected to criminals. To wit: "the Castro-Zelaya family appears embedded in some of the same criminal networks as its predecessor"

Point: the anti-ZEDE government is not good. Agree?
https://www.csis.org/analysis/bad-worse-xiomara-castro-administration-begins-weaponize-honduran-state

Love this line:

"every business has to play the game on the field, even as crazy instability rocks the center of government."

The protocol is still in the mixing bowl, but there is only one chef 👨‍🍳

Confession
Sometimes I engage Siri on my iPhone just because the pink glowy perimeter of the screen looks so cool.

What's so unclear d00d? Everybody else seems to be able to get in. Must be a skill issue. Crypto is about replacing gatekeepers with fair and transparent rules, preferably enforced in code. So...

Farcaster is a permissionless, sufficiently decentralized, open protocol governed by rough consensus and running code.

Farcaster (the app) has nerfs, bans, shadowbans, labels, custodial accounts which sign things on users' behalf for the overall convenience of network cohesion, embargoed wallets (for users as well as tokens) but they're onchain and self-custodial, mutes, blocks, bugs that lock out permissionless actions, Warps which are offchain "tokens" that can be revoked, channel owners that don't own channels, and the most buttery smooth UX and onboarding for onboarding "normies" to crypto.

Farcaster Con (blanket term for FarCon, FartherCon, FarCon Japan, FCNY, FC meetups) are non-sanctioned private events, whose organizers make their own rules.

Your number is not your worth. Here's a bunch of numbers tho

It seems like once a month, there is another story about Europe trying to add backdoors for law enforcement to access your private data.
Stay vigilant.

It seems like once a month, there is another story about Europe trying to add backdoors for law enforcement to access your private data.
Stay vigilant.

https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal

It is time for the community to come together and develop an open standard for encrypted chats (DC/GC) ⏰ 📻 

A group formed in the Bluesky community to specify how encrypted chats will work on that decentralized social platform. It wouldn't be a stretch to specify this in a way that it could also work for Farcaster.

Please like and recast this if you think this is something Farcaster should get involved in.

It is time for the community to come together and develop an open standard for encrypted chats (DC/GC) ⏰ 📻 

A group formed in the Bluesky community to specify how encrypted chats will work on that decentralized social platform. It wouldn't be a stretch to specify this in a way that it could also work for Farcaster.

Please like and recast this if you think this is something Farcaster should get involved in.

https://whtwnd.com/boscolo.co/3llcqqytyxz2r

A simple L2 security and finalization roadmap

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-security-and-finalization-roadmap/23309

Oh snap! I think TEE is a trigger word for some people.

Shipped on farcaster: @larrybot, @qdau, @frames, @framesfun, /open-frames, farcasterchannels.com, farcaster.id, @mod, @search, @discove

to be clear I'm casting this because I love Farcaster (the protocol), and I chose to build here because I want a decentralized social protocol to succeed. I've been disagreeing with the way Merkle has been making decisions for over a year with real arguments not just with slightly mean memes

just remember, it's not a "decentralized social protocol" until the smart contract fuses are burned. 🌉

Could make Farcaster atproto compatible, and declare Farcaster as the first alternative AppView to BlueSky.

I think @shazow.eth has been visiting my dreams!

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Wonder what caused the spike of new users the last few days?
👀

How do I turn of the grift Notifications?

I'm happy for you that your grift is trending, but I don't want to be notified about it.

Hey everyone! It’s Ro Khanna. I’m proud to represent Silicon Valley in Congress. Glad to be here!

Answer to my question, "who is the Obama of Farcaster"!

https://warpcast.com/boscolo.eth/0xffaee8ac

Welcome, @rokhanna!

Food

Whipped cream cheese is a win-win 🥯

Easier for me to spread on my beagle and Kraft makes more profit by charging me the same amount with lower cost of goods.

Someone told me today, they were a left leaning libertarian. I'm not even sure what that means.

🌶️ The political adjectives "left" and "right" have become so meaningless, anyone still using them is living in their own ideological bubble

"Signal is the gold standard in private comms"

Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, disagrees with Will Cathcart's claim of little difference between WhatsApp and Signal.

#Signal #WhatsApp #app #marketing https://t.co/Gzy2jDa5Qh

I wouldn’t say that Will and I are battling but I do disagree. Because there are big differences between Signal and WhatsApp.

Signal is the gold standard in private comms. We’re open source, nonprofit, and we develop and apply e2ee and privacy preserving tech across our system

Meredith Whittaker

"Signal is the gold standard in private comms"

https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1904492855206596882