Bimoo

Everyone is talking about payments.

The "network" in network state should stand for network effect, which is how all states form: they marshal resources created by network effects and maintain control of them.

Technology has created opportunities for new kinds of network effects and eroded old ones — implying that there could be new kinds of states.

/Network States

What are the best true “OSR” rulesets and campaigns?

/Tabletop

Has anyone played Shadowdark or Adventurer Conqueror King System: Imperial Imprint (ACKS2)? I’m hearing great things about both.

/Tabletop

What are the best OSR style TTRPG rulesets? Shadowdark is coming up now but what others do people really like?

/Tabletop

If this story makes sense and works, then "pay by USDC" / "pay by crypto" could work even better. I'm hoping to see this with Stripe's new crypto payment product.

Dream camera, wish it existed:

- compact (Ricoh GR III-sized)
- physical knobs for shutter speed, aperture, and ISO
- SD card
- charges via USB-C with swappable battery
- modest zoom (~24-50 range would be great) but fixed would be fine

/Photography

This is one of my favorite podcasts episodes — it's about on a recent event in COMP governance, but the best part is talking with Andy Hall (a16z crypto research + Stanford) about ways crypto can uniquely solve gov challenges in new, really compelling ways.

https://warpcast.com/a16zcrypto/0x90b72132

Why and how should you launch a network token? I gave this talk at our Crypto Startup Accelerator in London about the reasons for launching tokens, and when + how to launch them. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miAbQdXg6Gc

more like footage of @bayardo.eth carrying the /sbc channel on his shoulders

https://warpcast.com/eddy/0xf0337d71

/SBC

unedited footage from Science of Blockchain Conference in NYC today

I've heard that you can pay with crypto on Stripe, but I haven't seen this yet. Are there any merchants where this is enabled? I'd like to try.

Do NFT royalties have a future in crypto? The possibility of ensuring that creators get paid directly, even as assets change hands, is attractive. But there have been deep technical and economic obstacles in the way.

This piece outlines the challenges around transfer royalties + a few very crisp new ideas!

Is there anyone who reliably follows the best casters? I'd like to add more sources of good people to the Automod for /crypto

@linda and I had to physically onboard Robert to FC

/Welcome

I’ll be watching the FIT21 bill debate live at 12PM ET on CSPAN. I hear the vote might be at 4PM. Any group chats convening to watch together?

Caffè Panna was exceptional. Mild vanilla and light sweetness. The high butterfat (visible in the picture) made for a perfect texture and milky taste. Honestly one of the best: 9.5/10

/scoop

Notable vanilla soft serve in NYC:

- Ray's Candy Store (East Village)
- Softside (Nolita and Greenpoint)
- Ralph's (East Village)
- Soft Swerve (many locations)
- the Solato machine (22 Vanderbilt)
- Mr. Frostee (trucks)
- New York Ice Cream (trucks)

Not in order, I've tried all of these. Love soft serve.

/scoop

🍦 looks like soft serve or frozen custard, not ice cream. Unfortunately, soft serve is dispensed or extruded and not scooped. :'(

/scoop

/DNA, Genomics, Bioinformatics 🧬

What do people think of Nebula for DNA sequencing? Being able to download all 300GB and reanalyze later, privately, sounds very attractive.

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

Performance reviews are daunting and a lot of work, but after you get deep into revisiting what everyone has achieved over the last year the pride is incomparable. The team ships. 🥲

/Founders

Memecoins have been around for a while and haven't changed much. They aren't going away, but they won't be a source of lasting innovation either.

Memecoins are just a symptom of other powerful and promising phenomena on the web: memes, social networks, permissionless verified computation, and more. Focus on those.

I just got a peek of the tech tree for Jolt and it's incredible: one of the best learning opportunities in crypto and we have a budget for external contributors. Jolt is the simplest zkVM by a long shot.

/zk

Interesting example of a bot that reads channel names, generates a generic platitude, and then posts it in the channel.

Likely farming reputation, followers, etc.

/Farcaster