cofounder @townsxyz @townsprotocol building decentralized communication
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First @ethereumproject app I've seen completed yet. This technology is gonna change just about everything. ethereum-alarm-clock.com/
Communication is the most valuable surface on the internet.
Just look at Discord, Telegram, Signal, iMessage.
Now it’s onchain, ownable and powered by a token.
$TOWNS is a step toward a tokenized messaging layer for the internet.
Early innings of something big.
Onchain communication was always inevitable.
Now it’s just happening faster.
Excited to share our latest funding round, led by @a16zcrypto, with the addition of new investor @cbventures and continued support from @benchmark.
The future of communication is onchain.
It was always gonna end this way. Building on permissionless rails doesn’t matter until it does. @townsxyz welcomes all builders
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The next generation of social platforms won’t ever be able to do this @buildonriver
Instagram changed my username today to this bootleg name after having @john on there for the past 4 years with no explanation.
Not sure why I even have the bootleg app but Meta’s truly does not care about their users. Nobody there replies with reasoning.
November 2022 - Crypto - Bankman, Sam
November 2023 - AI - Altman, Sam
This feels exactly like how a software bug would manifest in the simulation code.
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@chandlersyf Base Goerli underwent a hard fork yesterday. Your nodes are connected to the wrong fork and returning blocks from ~15 hours ago. ankr.com/rpc/base/base_goerl…
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This whole situation is just so hard to comprehend as real life.
The best parallel I can think of is the South Park episode where Obama wins just so he can steal the diamonds from the Smithsonian.
southpark.cc.com/video-clips…
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"Premium" accounts are just an entry in a DB somewhere. This new Apple policy is saying if that DB is a blockchain (ie you hold an NFT), then you can't even log in to your premium account on the app AT ALL. This is way more restrictive than their current policy.
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Exactly. NFTs are so much more than art. Web2 entities you think you currently own, from your social profile to your discord server, will eventually be truly ownable with NFTs as the primitive.
it is strange how obvious it is to me that NFTs should be the ownership layer of the metaverse and how less than obvious it is to almost everyone else in the world
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I told her, “that’s because you don’t have any crypto related products to sell your clients so that you can earn commissions.”
She responded, “that is exactly correct.”
We both proceeded to have a good and deep belly laugh.
cc @_Dave__White_ had to fallback to commit reveal :(
another 5 AM revelation
how can you accept encrypted inputs from users that are guaranteed to be revealed later?
1 - users submit bonds and are slashed if they don't reveal
2 - encryption is RSA with a small key size that can be broken in the desired amount of time
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This is…not how you do api changes
⚠️ API Change Notice
In order to provide more accurate floor prices, we’ve moved them from the collections endpoint to a new collections stats endpoint. These new floor prices accurately represent what you see on the website, and are available at e.g. api.opensea.io/api/v1/collec…
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Latest @theallinpod talking about DAOs is pretty surreal.
@Jason: We should focus on tech and innovation
@chamath: We should focus on regulation
😂
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