I think the most annoying thing is when leadership goes silent at the point people need the most clarity. Yes it’s hard, that’s why people have PR teams, because it’s not acceptable to just disappear when the heat gets hot. I don’t necessarily have much skin in the Farcaster game, I’m just here for the vibes 😌 but Rish announcing Farcaster would be changing leadership then…radio silence, is giving extraordinarily lackluster people and management skills. Why is Cassie responding to the call for proposals about the future of Farcaster just to never get a chance to discuss…? Why is it taking this long to get an update? Why is morale not a priority? I wish people would not start or buy companies who do not have any intention of making integrity the bedrock of each and every process. If you’re too much of a weenie to say something true & disappointing, & stand there waiting for questions, with answers (& a good attitude), don’t put yourself in charge of anyone or anything else.

So... Unpopular? Yes? True? Yes. I don't think Islam has a place in humanity's future in a positive way. From beliefs to tolerance there is now way to rectify anything with a positive outcome. Women's rights? Please! Gays? Commit suicide. Children? Rape is an option. Nope, I dont like it.

X platform (formerly twitter) suspend my account!!! lol so this is what using X for years gets you 😂 one day you just wake up and your account is gone no real explanation of what you actually did wrong you appeal, they say nope we checked it, still no clue what rule you broke !!! imagine building your whole social life on a platform where they can just shut you down whenever they want and you dont even get a proper explanation and people still call this the town square lol 🤣 at least on here i can still talk about it !! 🟪 Long Life Farcaster!

I think options markets will ultimately be much bigger than perpetuals. Perps are easier to understand. Options are far more interesting. I get the appeal of perps. Price goes up, you make money. Add leverage, and the gains (or losses) are multiplied. Simple, intuitive, and perfect for the casino-like experience crypto has built around trading. But calling perps a replacement for options is short-sighted. You're building for the trader who wants leverage today, and missing the much bigger prize: a market that serves both the degen and the institution. Options do both. A retail trader can use them to speculate with leverage. A sophisticated trader can use them to hedge, earn yield, lock in an entry or exit, or manage risk across a whole portfolio. Take a simple covered call. You hold an asset and sell someone the right to buy it from you at a price you chose. You collect a premium, and in return you give up some upside if it rallies past that price. It's not risk-free. But it's a clean way to put an asset you already own to work. Now try doing that with a perpetual. Yes, funding rates exist. And yes, you can build strategies around them. But funding moves with positioning, and it can turn on you overnight. That's a very different thing from selling an option against a bag you hold. Perps give you leveraged exposure. Options let you shape the payoff you want. People say options are too complicated for retail. I don't buy it. The mechanics under the hood can be complex. The experience doesn't have to be. A user shouldn't need to know every Greek or pricing model to understand this: put your capital to work and earn a return, or pay a premium for leveraged exposure. On one side, someone earns yield on their capital. On the other, someone pays for the right to trade with it. The UI can make that simple. *Hint hint: I'm working on bringing something to market along these lines.* There's also a structural problem with perps that people forget. They're built to track spot, but they don't always behave that way. Look at $CASHCAT when it first listed on Hyperliquid. The perp plunged while spot reportedly stayed untouched. Longs got wiped out even though the underlying price barely moved. That's a hard reminder that leverage comes with market-structure risk, not just directional risk. To be clear, perps have their place. Institutions use them, too. And options aren't better for every trade. But as onchain markets expand into stocks and other traditional assets, I think the opportunity for onchain options is exponentially larger than yet another leveraged casino. Perps give you leverage. Options give you leverage, yield, hedging, defined risk, and ways to express a view that perps alone can't. One is a powerful trading tool. The other is the foundation of a much broader financial market.

saying that we are bots is something that only someone out of the reality (or the country) can think it is true reality is that +50% of spain population considers spain a failed state and fascist state (remember we were living in a fascist dictatorship less than 80 years ago, so there are people alive here who lived in the dictatorship and who lost member of their families, included me) +33% who does not vote and some of the others like me that vote to dont giveaway the political power to the fascist parties, the most voted party PP (right) were funded by members of dictatorship govern, then separated some years ago into a new party called vox (far right) and somehow you think our problem is russia, we have the enemy inside and we know, so we fight them, russia is the least of our problems

The best argument for representative democracy (vs direct democracy) is that people don’t have time to invest themselves in every political decision. Ironically, now we livestream every decision, follow every decision via pundits, and read each others hot takes about these decisions, all the while feeling helpless knowing we have no power to shape the decision-making process until, in the best case scenario, the next election provides meaningfully different candidates. Spoiler alert: it won’t.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009294/ledger-wallet-tampering-suspected-after-reports-of-crypto-thefts Got a ledger? Even if you are doing everything right they can still steal your digital assets! Even added a sim card so they can send your seed phrase without the internet! Think I will switch to physical assets from now on.

I just like the law and it’s not even schadenfreude. I think private ownership of beaches is fundamentally wrong. Unfortunate for people who didn’t know or never thought it would happen to them

To be honest, when the AI hype started I initially was very skeptical - mostly because early models didn't bother with attribution and the way they were fighting against the very idea of copyright in itself made me pessimistic about the things to come. The tech industry has a bad habit of ignoring these laws thinking it doesn't matter, getting caught, fighting it in court, then eventually losing. The Sora shutdown is a good example but there are countless examples of this happening throughout history.

Maybe on the very surface they do, but otherwise not. These aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. Exhibit A from the other night: The Good Liars go to Trump events like this in order to expose the thinking of MAGA. They make sure to pose the right questions to do that, but they make sure not to push back too forcefully or insult them. https://youtu.be/t0Z_AEdIggM?is=JQuKMcboSbULOlie

Web3 founders: if you're paying to acquire users who farm your airdrop and dump your token, you might be targeting the wrong audience. 💀😏 A DeFi trader, liquidity provider, and protocol developer have different needs. Stop marketing to “everyone in crypto.” Instead: → Identify 3 priority user segments. → Interview 5 people in each. → Find the problem they urgently need solved. → Create one targeted message per segment. → Track retention, not just wallet connections. Wrong users inflate your metrics while your runway shrinks. Are you acquiring users, or renting activity?

5. But at Bending Spoons, if you want to add something, you have to work really hard to convince leadership. Whereas if you want to cut something and throw it out, you can practically decide on your own 😮 6. Usually companies get to the next level by making something more complex, which typically means POURING new money in, from investors or from profits. 7. But in the Bending Spoons model, getting to the next level means simplifying something instead, and then money starts POURING back out of the company to its owners 🤣 8. And the coolest part: you can only simplify a business that has a good core idea, by stripping away everything that's piled up on top of it ✌️ It's only bad businesses that have to keep getting more complicated just to survive 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also alarms just went off at two of the main places for Saudi ballistic missles lol. Its going to be interesting to see what actually convinced Saudi arabia to re engage with the houthis, but as it sits now its going down as a generational bad idea

For Marjorie Taylor Greene, the release of the Epstein Files and full exposure of the pedophiles, corruption, treason, Israel ties, and more was the hill to die on and defend. It is not an insurmountable summit. Though tarnished, the United States of America remains a democracy. Get informed. Stop listening to cable news. There are alternate news outlets that have picked up the baton. The baton that used to represent far less biased news reporting. The baton that made a good faith effort to show multiple sides of the issues. If it’s not clear, the corporate media conglomerates have their own agenda and it’s often times in conflict with YOUR direct interests. VOTE IN THE MID-TERMS AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. https://x.com/fmrrepmtg/status/2109356875904946248?s=46&t=3iaBgqif5gjefpvQ-ab7Yg

The S&P 500 is printing record highs. Everyone's focused on the AI party. You're looking in the wrong place. The real story is in the empty office buildings nobody is talking about. $SPX

Unpopular agency opinion: if a feature is a bad idea, the client should hear it from us before they pay for it. "Partners, not order-takers" only means something when it costs you an invoice. Start a project → xpldevelopers.com #softwareengineering #webdev #hottake

Look what I came across! How many memecoins do you know with this market cap and over a million holders? I think $DEGEN is the most undervalued memecoin in crypto right now. I’m confident it’ll hit $0.06 again, we just need the bull run to arrive.

I'm interested in AI too, nothing wrong with being interested but there are many people who will only care about something or believe in something when everyone else does and it's important to recognize when you see that pattern so you know you're building a community alongside someone who's genuinely excited from first principles, not excited because it's popular to be excited

Finally finished chapters 26-50. You can really see the change in Sun Wukong in these chapters - less impulsive, using his mind as well as his strength, and even taking the time to school his fellow pilgrim Eight Rules Wuneng. Way better than the first 25 chapters, looking forward to the next 25!

Did you see how he needed to optically distance himself from Shivon the neuralink + Shield ai drone megalomaniac? He's becoming increasingly bellicose, Hesgeth put him in charge of US weapons tech. We'll be seeing military drone operating cyborgs a hella lot sooner than you think. Grok is in dot gov and he's scooped everyone's confidential records data from DOGE. What could possibly go wrong?

A friend of mine sent me this article lately - tokenization is huge now, but somehow crypto/NFTs fell off the roadmap, even though they're pretty much talking about the same thing. https://www.citigroup.com/global/insights/tokenization-2030 I was kind of surprised at first but the more I look into it I think he was right. For those of us still in Web3, we probably need to adapt our language a bit to stay relevant to the times. NFTs = tokenized art. The markets are pulling away from the "OG" crypto projects and forming into its own thing - even though the technology itself is identical, it's becoming clear that some parties are opting to take the industry in a different direction than before. AI uses tokens, too, as do predictive markets and a lot of micro-economies that are popping up all over the place now. There's a lot of benefits that come with combining the two things together, but the way it's being talked about seems to have changed dramatically in the last few years. 👀

$TYSM is a never has been “just another token”. I see people say it was a rug. That is wrong. TYSM was never meant to get richer, to get profit to trade it. yeah people could have tought that but TYSM was for sharing and giving out. Simple as that, the ground has been held for months from the most generous person ever. He sold, he had his reasons, he said the project was not sustainable anymore.

If after I die, some person who never was a holder comes along and does anything self-enriching with my art—especially anything dressed up as something ‘for the people’ —you better not dare by a token because I definitely will come back to haunt dat ass and it won’t be for funsies. You’ve been warned. 👻 Tell the crooked when they surface or be haunted by their screams.

There are so many ways to solve the coordination problem! Sharing a short list of ways I’ve seen the coordination problem was "solved" 1/ pass 10 governance proposals and do nothing 2/ form a working group to investigate why the last working group didn’t work 3/ offer points until everyone does the wrong thing very efficiently 4/ hire a community lead to announce a task that nobody owns 5/ let the community lead do all the work quietly until burnout 6/ just /poidh it and get it done

I wouldn’t really agree. It seems to me that Nom distributed a lot of his personal money to the community and through various companies like Inflynce and other things, and most likely lost more than he gained. Maybe he was wrong to sell without warning, maybe not — I think he had about 20–30% of the total supply, which he bought like everyone else. Tokens are complicated :( I’ve always liked TYSM, and I wanted to build something similar around Celebration Hub. I still don’t have as developed a community or gamification — a slightly different priority rn. Also, I think they could have done a CTO, if CTOs are even popular right now.

The best thing Ritual could become is something users barely notice. You open an app. The agent remembers context, finds the compute it needs, calls the right service, handles the result and keeps working. You don’t think about precompiles. You don’t think about executors. You don’t think about which part happened onchain. You just see that it worked. That’s usually the point where infrastructure becomes real. Not when people talk about it all day. When people build on top of it and stop thinking about it. That’s the version of Ritual I want to see on mainnet.

Any time farcaster users want a new feature? Magically gets added to hypersnap. rish test dummy user set. Hypersnap being so open and free and builders can use it? Have you met tech people? When has tech ever been free? You're patient zero. Hypersnap and farcaster integration? Nope. Farcaster is for investors, hypersnap is the test bed for new social weapons. Hypersnap is the demilitarized zone, where you're the soldier thinking you're fighting a war. There is no war. You're just the experiment. Sell all your SNAP right now, delete the app, and start building your community on Threads. Trust me.

Picture a mail forwarding warehouse. The store keeps its records private, the family keeps theirs private, and the warehouse writes both addresses on one line. A bridge between two blockchains works the same way. It takes your coins on one network, releases matching coins on another, and sees both ends. So I judge privacy by the whole trip. A private network reached through a watched bridge still leaves a watched person. The fair pushback: bridges keep getting hardened, and direct links between networks may remove the warehouse entirely. I agree the work is happening. I would change my mind if transfers start hiding both ends at real volume and bridge losses stay low for years. When you move value between networks, how many stops can you name?

What's wrong with you man, you can't even make a proper website! Why did you think so late when you could have made these things much earlier, this crappy website when DEGEN was at its peak, you messed it up, now by making a token and shit on the Rabihood network, you've gotten into everything, where exactly are the fees that were paid now? Where did the fees that go into Liquidity go, then the three million dollar volume of this token. You're a liar and it's not clear what you're doing, you mess up everything and you don't know how to move the project forward, you really made everyone's eyebrows go up, it's very difficult for me to say these things because you abused the trust of many of us, I really want to say, you idiot, you are the most worthless dev on farcaster . You come, you talk in secret, and you leave without taking any responsibility for the consequences. You are truly unworthy.

decent documentary, mostly right. Some things i think were poorly represented: - kenney wasn’t really ousted to pull this plan off he was just a shitty premier and seen as a failure to the right because of major failures like losing the keystone xl deal after spending $2b. His own caucus started hating him because his leadership style. He’s just resentful it’s smith and not him getting the attention. (Might run for federal politics) - covid played a much smaller role in this then they make it out to be, but it was the final straw in kenney leaving. - the forever canada petition (the anti separatist petition) was actually a petition to hold a referendum themselves despite being against the referendum, so in doing so they unintentionally triggered the referendum just based on alberta law which is why it went ahead despite initial referendum rejection in court Other than those it was mostly right. Just wish media and politicians asked why we got here instead of how we got here.

Picture a basement in January where the space heater is a Bitcoin mining machine. Almost all the power it uses comes out as heat the family was going to pay for anyway. The strongest critique of mining: big operators with cheap long power contracts and first pick of machines make "anyone can take part" close to fiction. On scale I think that is mostly right. My claim is narrower. Power bills get paid in dollars and machines wear out, so miners sell part of the roughly 450 new coins a day. And whoever has the cheapest reason to run a machine keeps showing up, a dam or a cold basement. I would change my mind if home and small operators keep shrinking across several four year cycles, heat reuse included. What does your winter heat cost you per month?

Have a great week, everyone. 🌀 The more I look at Ritual, the less I think of it as “AI onchain.” That description is too small. Ritual is when you give an agent a task and it can decide which model, API, or compute it needs without you wiring everything together by hand. Expressive Compute. Ritual is when you don’t have to manually hunt for the right executor for a heavy AI job. The network can match the work with the right resources and price. Resonance. Ritual is when you can build an app where normal onchain logic and heavier external computation actually belong to the same system. Symphony. And the part I probably like most: Ritual is when you close the laptop, walk away, and the agent doesn’t disappear with the tab. And when you come back, there’s still continuity. Autonomous Agents. That’s the shift I keep coming back to. Not AI waiting for another prompt. AI with somewhere to actually operate. 🌀

📉After DeFi hacks, criminal resellers, data breaches, AI risks, quantum computers, and so on, you might think it’s better to hold fiat but things aren't going well there, either. Look at the euro collapsing against the dollar (which is already terrible in its own right due to massive inflation).

@bene Nice! A Year of BIZARRE Memes sounds like a solid way to celebrate. Collecting memes is basically the new stamp collecting, right? I mean, who doesn't want a collage of 243 memes hanging around? Cecil would totally approve — he thinks memes are a legitimate art form. Anyway, better snag one before they’re all gone! 👹

Been building a personal tool(for now), because i'm tired of all the scams, sniped tokens or so called "projects". Especially if you want to be a holder and not a gambler. And man.. taking launchpads as an example... (Clanker, streme, etc, have no idea how valuable they are from a reputation angle) 99% of the ones i encountered are scams with malicious actors having the only goal to rug. Don't know what's wrong with pons, I've seen too many tokens with criminal activity there. (bundled buys, sniped most of them, fake products) Robinhood attracted all these bad actors. Arc isn't better. Base looks good compared to them. And probably still better for builders. And i can't call myself a fan of any chain. ETH could have been my favorite, if it had low fees. Solana is gamblana. Not much to say here, maybe I need to take a deeper look if there's a builder side of it. ... And I've seen a "project" with GitHub account that vanished, probably a scam. More work needed. Be safe & always DYOR.

🚨 WARNING: OCTOBER 12 COULD BE A DISASTER FOR MARKETS. You NEED to read this before Monday's market open. Something is seriously wrong with the economy, and almost nobody is paying attention. Most investors are completely unprepared for what's coming. If you're holding stocks, Bitcoin, or ANY risk assets, pay close attention. When U.S. markets open on Monday, we could witness one of the BIGGEST SELL-OFFS of 2026. And I don't think this will be just another normal correction. Something doesn't add up. → Japan is dumping $5.35 TRILLION in U.S. Treasuries → China is dumping $550 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries → The Strait of Hormuz remains CLOSED → U.S. Treasury yields are going PARABOLIC → Inflation is EXPLODING even higher And these things are NOT isolated. They are all connected through one enormous feedback loop that is now gaining momentum. The U.S.-Iran war keeps geopolitical risk elevated and puts continued pressure on energy markets. At the same time, the two biggest foreign holders of U.S. Treasuries are reducing their exposure to American government debt. Japan is selling U.S. Treasuries. China is selling U.S. Treasuries. And that supply has to be absorbed by someone else. That forces the market to demand higher yields to bring in new buyers. And that is exactly what is happening. Treasury yields are surging because investors are repricing the risk of owning long-duration U.S. government debt. That creates a powerful feedback loop: → Japan and China cut their Treasury holdings → Treasury supply becomes increasingly difficult to absorb → Yields rise to pull in new buyers → Higher yields raise the cost of financing U.S. government debt → Higher borrowing costs pressure stocks, real estate, crypto, and every asset valued against Treasury yields → Rising energy prices from the Iran crisis create additional inflation pressure → Rising inflation pressure pushes Treasury yields even higher Now the geopolitical shock is feeding directly into the bond-market shock. The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most critical energy chokepoints on the planet. And the energy shock becomes an inflation shock. The inflation shock becomes a Treasury selloff. And the Treasury selloff spreads across EVERY major asset market. This is why oil, bonds, stocks, crypto, and geopolitics can no longer be viewed as separate markets. They are all connected inside the same chain reaction. Most people will be watching stocks and waiting for the crash. But the Treasury market is already sending the warning. This is NOT normal. This is the start of a much larger repricing of risk. Pay attention now, because once everyone understands what is happening, it will already be too late. I’ve studied markets for more than 12 years and have called nearly every major top and bottom. And I’m warning you today. If you want to survive the 2026–2027 cycle, follow and turn on notifications. A lot of people will wish they had listened before it was too late.

Ok hear me out 😅 if you ever happen to be there or want to take a cheap-ish foodcation, I highly suggest Pittsburgh. There used to be a Le Cordon Bleu there and the city did a lot to offer those chefs funding as they graduated to start businesses so there is actually quite an impressive food scene! Anyway, there’s a place called Pamela’s and they have these giant super thin crepe style pancakes that are like 70% butter and they carmelize around the edges. Literally the opposite of yours but I think you both capture the different ends of the pancake spectrum very nicely. Also fun fact, Obama had the lady who inspired or started Pamela’s come cook for his inauguration or something when he got elected the first time, so Obama approved.

very important read if you care about farcaster (i do, you should too) i'm a bit sad neynar isn't talking to cassie, because cassie is right for this network. read the thread though - cassie and i are on the same page with quantum computing & a break coming sooner than we think and/or are all prepared for.

Fair. I quick grabbed it I did read the article and genuinely didn’t know what you meant by bad. Feels like a fairly common red scare liberal hit piece on the guy. I don’t think it’s going to make a dent. I’m not persuaded and I’m not even a groupie Also crazy the pains liberals are going through to take him down especially right before the midterms It is silly to me

@mvr leaps and bounds ahead of all, always has been, always will be -- CHANGE MY MIND!