Sina Habibian

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I've recently become more interested in US political history and how the constitution setup a framework within which the next 250 years have evolved. This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at CU Boulder and researcher in the Comparative Constitutions Project, who patiently explained this all to me. We talk about how constitutions organically emerge from humans coordinating in large groups, presidential vs parliamentary systems, the balance between federal and state governments, and more. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/39-eric-alston

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BaseCamp 001 was the first time the Base community has come together in-person. I recorded four conversations there -- with @jessepollak of @base, @benleventhal of Blackbird, Julian Holguin of Doodles, and @yele.eth of Onboard. I think there's a good chance we'll look back on this period as a historic moment in time, and hope these conversations give a sense for what folks are building and also capture some of the magic of being there in Idyllwild. Full podcast here: intothebytecode.com/38-basecamp

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It's a good rule of thumb to just ship knowing that action produces information and that most missteps are reversible. But looking more deeply, is there a right way to think about the trade-off between moving fast vs taking time to make sure one's moving fast in the right direction? @colin had a good answer here, he thinks the right approach actually changes over time. From intothebytecode.com/37-colin-armstrong

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Here is my conversation with @colin. We talk about the economics of writing online, the higher ARPUs in crypto, building for the crypto-native niche or a general audience, wallets vs emails, moving with focus and urgency, and more. Full conversation here: intothebytecode.com/37-colin-armstrong

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On how we're not rational economic agents (from Justin Glibert, cofounder of Lattice and 0xPARC: https://youtu.be/cJ9QMZtDjyw)

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Here is my conversation with Justin Glibert, cofounder of Lattice and 0xPARC. We talk about autonomous worlds, digital physics, agency and violence on the internet, homo economics vs homo ludens, and reading weird books. Full conversation here: intothebytecode.com/36-justin-glibert/

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The purist thinks "gambling is uninteresting and perhaps morally corrupt" The tourist thinks "I want to get rich and I don't care about this nerd shit" The winning products/protocols embody both, like Uniswap. From @nonlinear.eth in intothebytecode.com/35-jonny-mack

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Here is my conversation with @nonlinear.eth. We talk about Hypersub, pooling capital with shared ownership and upside, the computer and the casino, and what it means to be a crypto-native creator. Full conversation here: intothebytecode.com/35-jonny-mack/

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Any learnings to share on how Scoop gone on the app store @salvino ? I was under the impression that all the PWA acrobatics were there because Apple was blocking crypto apps / in-app payments.

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Let the Scoop wars begin, invite codes: OZYDBW 736ZSA

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Here is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin. Stephane was cofounder of Flashbots and is now working on OneBalance. We talk about how blockspace is abundant and UX is the bottleneck, and how OneBalance organizes the interaction between accounts/applications to solve for this intothebytecode.com/34-stephane-gosselin

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Claiming my /scoop profile with address: 0x62FDC752944F4b8aA936E579a5B5dC47d5ef0919 let the scoop wars begin 🍦

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Here is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay. Molly is the head of engineering, product, research at Protocol Labs and has worked across projects like IPFS and Filecoin. We talk about IPC (a new framework for recursive L2s), incentive design, building, and more. intothebytecode.com/33-molly-mackinlay

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Honored to be a small supporter helping @rish and @manan. I think we'll look back on decentralized social networks as an important upgrade for humanity. We have the opportunity to shape this transition - a programmable stack in the hands of an ecosystem is a powerful thing.

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One of the coolest parts of building this new social web is that it doesn’t have to be done in a single-threaded way. The data is open and the stack is programmable. X is a product and can only try one thing at a time; this is an ecosystem and can run a thousand experiments in parallel.

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One of the coolest parts of building this new social web is that it doesn’t have to be done in a single-threaded way. The data is open and the stack is programmable. X is a product and can only try one thing at a time; this is an ecosystem and can run a thousand experiments in parallel.

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Here is my conversation with @rish. We talk about the idea maze for Neynar, how it is architected under the hood, his cofounder relationship with @manan, and how companies become extensions of their founders. intothebytecode.com/32-rish-neynar

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Here is my conversation with @sreeramkannan. We talk about rollups as web servers, AVSs as SaaS, and EigenLayer as the cloud - and we work through the ramifications of this for the architecture /economics of the web. intothebytecode.com/31-sreeram-kannan

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Here is my conversation with @dob.eth and @ericxtang. We talk about video's increasingly important role on the internet, the impact of generative AI, and how Livepeer is able to provide a 90% cost improvement over cloud services by putting excess compute capacity to work. intothebytecode.com/livepeer

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