gm farcaster it is friday july 12th and you are here with nana shropp and adrianne for 29 minutes of farcaster news to start your day and we both had some little technical difficulties very before we went live which is also fun
it's been it's been a week
it's been a week you can tell it's a friday yeah so sorry about that slight delay but happy friday and i am sporting a very fun background because i played in tabletop last night and this is my winning screenshot so played against jtgi miriam and kate daniels and yeah i was the i was victorious but congratulations gdi almost took me down came this close i had to go steal the longest road back from him
so what did you win
the ability to brag about this on yeah that's what i want that's it that's why
we do this that's why we do the show you too could have a platform
to share your your board game wins your online board game wins yeah what board game
what game is that that's settlers of catan okay so tabletop had a little get together last night and you could play either settlers of catan or dominion so there were a few folks playing dominion i don't know if links i think i don't know if links ever made it but i know he and do he and matthew have a a little dominion rivalry matthew was there playing that and kristen was learning how to play yeah we had fun though it was a lot of fun so so thanks for that that was a lot of fun and you had a fun day yesterday also you were in new york hanging out with this guy
i was
yeah so this was from adrianne when you meet a motion cam founder for lunch you obviously have to choose a motion cam border for the photo with robin and nyc serendipity not pictured url to irl so that was really cute i love that picture it's great and and this post was from robin gossiped about who on farcaster we think will get married next and how we can crash the wedding not pictured serendipity
so and then this went on a little bit more i don't wanna pressure anyone or anything but you can't rush love and marriage isn't for everyone but i am literally
dying to go to a farcaster wedding so please people can we make this happen
brian g when are we getting hitched
that was from ted so that's pretty funny
it went on and on i believe you've offered to pay for the wedding i mean
only if brian and ted get married
only if it's brian and ted okay
and i only offered $50,000 which honestly if they get married needs to be like 10% of the wedding budget
i would agree blowout i would agree a full on blowout so funny this was just so funny so i'm glad you had fun i loved this picture and yes my goal for this weekend is for us to get a gm forecaster border so it's still it's still on my goals i may may eventually give in and just go bounty so by the end of the weekend
and then again a lot
of these things will happen
we'll have a border or a bounty good job calling it a border by the way because i keep calling them frames and i know it's confusing and it's confusing because of farcaster frames so we're going with border if you've not downloaded mashicam it's it's definitely worth checking out the the mints are super cheap i think they're
you can mint with warps for like 30¢ or something crazy like that yeah yeah super super cheap
and it's they're fun they're just really fun
so we like fun we take fun seriously right miriam that was the tagline for last night moving on to less fun things but you know still fun from v warpcast is reviewing reports and labeling spam users if you've reported someone and we take action on it you'll get this notification we're doing a one time push to review a lot of older posts older reports so you may get these notifications for things reported 2 or 3 months ago this was in response to mike rainbow saying i got this notice saying i received a report about about spam or something like that but i don't think i ever reported anything so you probably did it a while ago and didn't remember so i did notice this as well i had a couple of notifications and i was happy to see it okay great you know at least you know it hasn't gone into the void they actually see them and have taken action so it's great do report your spam spam sam sam moving on this from key hub validators is hub to validators is apples and oranges farcaster hubs full nodes in a blockchain validating and reward paid to validators is agreed on a unified state blocks farcaster has no need for a blockified state because the ordering of transactions don't threat the integrity of the system so this was in response and i thought this was really helpful in response to a discussion about hubs and paying for storage and talking about hubs scaling and this went on there was a number of different sort of takeoffs from this one thread here of different discussions that were happening related to hubs and related to storage and the new storage limits that they're talking about and there's some confusion about hubs where they're you know some people think of it like a validator on ethereum and it's not and that was this discussion here and if you want to learn more about how farcaster works on the technical side this is a good notion doc to check out so that was a lot there was this there was a lot
and the validator conversation goes around to people are under the impression that they should they should be rewarded for running hubs now running hubs should be a reward and and dan is saying the reward is the the star you get a sticker like in nursing you just feel good you feel good because you have a you're a nerd and you wanna run it as a hobby or exactly you need local close access because you have an app that you're building
and
and you wanna do it for that and that's the reason i just changed my background i was i i you went back to that came in on the show i had a nice sunset overlooking the bay as my background which was nice friday vibes and i just changed you back to dan's cast
yeah dan's cast about running a hub there's 0 economic reward there won't currently or in the
future friendly reminder stop you're not getting paid
and once again warps have no value no intrinsic value and also forecast requires for all the things
so and cast and channels
and cast and channels if you if you and be interesting and if you could please be interesting because there's not enough interesting content
so we're trying we're trying dan i swear every time he says that i'm like we're right here anyway speaking of also in case you didn't know
is forecast dying
dan says no so actually he says seems like it while pointing to this article farcaster hits record high in user engagement with over 70 73,000 unique casters so
interesting interesting so it's it feels at times i've seen more than one person comment that it does feel a little quiet i really was relating that mostly to when i'm at a conference i'm not casting as much a lot of people already at cc a lot of people were on vacation last week and that's what that feels like to me right now it didn't feel like major shift in engagement but i did feel that like a little bit of people just not being around yeah
it was base like grass week people everyone on chain summer touch grass
they they yeah they literally took the week off even base took the week off last week i forgot about that and they literally said go touch grass and we're gonna pay you to touch grass so there you go
i didn't like i actually don't know if brian if people had i if people have been saying forecaster feels like it's dying i haven't felt it or if
i've seen a few people
uses supercast to recast that every 3 months because it's funny
he could be doing that as well no i saw cameron mention it i've seen a few people mention it that it felt quiet and i really take it as like people are just you know we're off touching grass and things like that so or at conferences so there's been a lot of a lot of things happening going on speaking of base submit what you're building this is on chain summer is for everyone and we want to showcase what you've built submit your projects to the on chain summer registry and i do need to go do this i had submitted to the hackathon something that messed up with mine for cast outs i think that might be getting fixed but even not i need to submit it to this registry as well and we need to put the writing hackathon in there as well so if you build something on base make sure you submit it here did you submit that your the writing hackathon to the registry yet registry okay we need to get that done and
and i just think people have been voting quadratic voting and i've got a few little votes for it so i just appreciate that all
yeah it was a really cool thing so i'm glad to see it getting some recognition in other news this has been the big conversation changed the way that tips are allocated so you had to we talked about this the other day you had to lock up a certain amount and you would get a partial a part of the out tip allocation so this was from jacek the community has locked up over $2,000,000
worth of degen in the vault we're stoked to see everyone hyped for season 6 and thrilled to bring back tipping to the community let's make this season epic so there's been some controversy around this as you know there always is with change one issue that i do have is that your tipping allocate there's a moving goalpost so yesterday when i looked okay here's the number i need to lock up to get the maximum allocation and today that has moved up so now i don't have the maximum allocation and it bothers me i have slightly less
because it's a percent the more exactly the more people lock up the fewer your preexisting lock in represents and the smaller your tips become
exactly so i have to now go lock up some more because i'm like just tell me what the number is and i'll lock it up i don't care
and you cannot unlock
and you can't unlock for 3 months
3 months
i believe it yeah so that is part of the controversy of people trying to decide should they lock this for 3 months just to get a tip allocation this was alina ferri's take on this high stakers everyone else please sir can i have some tips
kind of accurate and then
so i wonder if there's a way i know the answer is no but i'm just gonna say this because maybe we can manifest it is oh i guess i could give some like i would love to lock up and allocate my tips to someone else to distribute
oh that's interesting so you wanna delegate your tips
yeah i wanna delegate tips
that's an interesting concept i think that would be great i think that would be really cool too because you could even give it to an organization of sorts who could you know like i'm thinking like a dao or
cam broadcaster
yeah and let yeah sure exactly yeah it could be something along those lines and that's where the tips get allocated so that's interesting and it it's so some folks are a little upset about this and this was one of the comments this is from ice tote unfortunately this season gives priority to whales aka crypto rich people with less money to lock up shouldn't be at a disadvantage and then there was a conversation here and i think that yester crypto made a great point here not sure i understand everyone can receive tips it's only the ability to tip others that's limited and then they said you know it kinda went on from there where the yes well i agree this is true the bigger allowance someone has the more tips they're likely to receive but you make a very fair point
and he went on to talk about that there's a whole bunch of us who tip way more out than we receive like way mine is like i probably tip out i i haven't looked to see what the numbers are but it's at least double probably triple or quadruple what i actually receive in tips so it's not necessarily true there's a lot of people who get a lot more tips than me who don't have nearly the same allocation so what we're doing is sort of like this service of yes we have a little bit of power in where our tips go but most of the people who have those large allotments that i've seen have you know pretty responsible tippers i guess i would say but what are your thoughts on this any thoughts on
let's go back if you remember where i where i started from in january when i'm like why why d jen so take everything so i don't even wanna speak with any sort of authority i'll just tell you my personal kind of okay experience which is i have a large or in this past season i had a very large tip allowance and i wasn't using it
yeah
not i just don't use it because it's not something i think about and if it was easier to and then only in the past like few weeks or so i started realizing like i should probably offload these tips like i i have them so i did start sending them out but i had like a 17,000 allowance
yeah
and and no and i'm not getting a ton of tips back and i think that's because and i i'm probably not in a very degen heavy community
yeah i think that yeah there's there's some you know folks who do that tip for tip kind of stuff most of the folks that i see who are sort of at that high tipping allocation don't don't do that and they may not even tip at all so you're right i think for the lockup for me i i'm not going i have no intention of spending or to doing anything with most of my like most of that is a long term lockup i pretend it's not even there so me for me locking that up is like nothing like it's literally was i had 9,000,000 sitting in a safe for how long that i couldn't even access
that's right
for like 4 months so this is nothing new to me but you know i can see why people from the outset it looks unfair but i think you're what it's doing is rewarding the folks who have a long term you know faith and they're just supporting the project so i don't know we'll see how it all unfolds
and i'm not even
sure i have a
firm faith necessarily but i have but i'm also not looking to like
i i'm faith is probably strong yeah faith is probably
not yeah
yeah i'm not looking to offload it anytime soon i guess
and i can still people can still lock up is there like is there is it at any given point it's a that's a moving it just you can lock up and then and so the
amount of
i think
if you lock up more it's it start restarts the clock or something like that
right
yeah so that's that's the only thing but if that's not a concern for you yes you can lock up more okay because i need to go and lock up more right after this because i want my max i want the max turn it
into a faucet change it from a what just we'll have a daily drip keep keep locking up more yep i did not lock up for the same reason i don't tip which is friction yeah i'm busy people and but i think i probably will there's like i have a long list of things to do and maybe maybe going
to a lot of a
lot of is on that list
little cleanups of all kinds of things that i still have to get done including our hyper sub i need to upgrade our hyper sub all kinds of fun things okay moving on this was really a great take on ecc i think so this was from mjc nice meeting ecc notes nice meeting internet friends panels boring a few workshops and individual talks were decent non fc people are genuinely intrigued by fc but mostly in a detached curious way not a i need to get on that kind of way i thought that was an interesting point i'll circle back to that in a minute not unique to hcc but everyone loves talking about how many meetings they have thought that was funny brussels walkability pleasant and saved me the usual conference uber bill saw mugging heard about several others infra energy state defi and nft energy on life support green shoots consumer energy but still too small to register hardly an original point but the sheer number of chains is dizzying personally i find myself enjoying the events talks where crypto tries to cross the chasm into culture more than the hard tech events talks so that's interesting so a couple interesting points here i heard a lot about muggings and robberies and i don't recall that hitting my feed as much for any other conference so i don't know what was going on there but i did say what is going on in brussels i've seen this a few times and said it's just overblown and you're you know people are being a little dramatic but i i think like the fact that i've seen so many mentions of it it was a little concerning a little bit concerning so i've seen a couple people mention either muggies or having things stolen from their hotel room and yeah so that was kinda kind of weird but anyway
not great don't walk alone
don't walk alone all those kind of things
so up here though i liked the non fc people are genuinely intrigued by fc but mostly in a detached curious way not a i need to get on that kind of way so that's a little concerning you know you'd like to see people be a little bit more driven to take action but at least they're curious so we'll take that i guess
that's because we're really bad at like hype yeah we don't people on farcaster we're not out you're right yeah telling everyone like you know we're we're not hyping farcaster everywhere else and that's true but but that's a good point dan's doing marketing i don't know if you saw that dan's hiring a a cmo i don't think so no yes did you see asked him yesterday and he said if i were going to do marketing like what would you market and to who i did see that
yeah i forgot to grab that one
you don't realize this is actually a job interview he's it is an open call for you to send your business plan
in other in other words if you have a really good idea this is the time to say it otherwise he's not hiring
a cmo exactly he's just like testing the waters
like you know
maybe i need to market
like maybe if if somebody gives him a really good idea he might run with it i did see that and i forgot to grab it i did love this pic the best star of the day with base builders cozy breakfast at eatcc whoops well that's loading slowly lovely photo of the crew with oxmid here for a base builder's cozy breakfast and we discussed all things base and are super bullish on what the team is preparing for base camp any clues we are also curious about base camp so looking forward to seeing what's going on so we'll see some of you there and i love this picture i love seeing the pictures of you know farcasters in the wild meeting up together it's always one of my favorite things to see from conferences this from linda any boost on this would be appreciated we want to avoid taking a cut from bounty caster bounty earners so they can keep 1 9% of it we'd rather monetize through users posting to certain categories like jobs exactly how craigslist does it so this was yesterday now anyone can post a job on our bounty caster jobs page fee is $75 to post a job so if you are hiring great place to post honestly you'll probably get a lot of really good quality candidates if it's related to web 3 and really cool to see linda thinking about how to approach revenue generation in a way that doesn't extract more takeaway from the bounties so i love that she's doing this thinking fantastic to see moving on i did love this thank you just build we keep like when people say nice things about us we have a little place in our discord called castimonials don't tell people that i'm telling them i'm telling them the secret and every once in a while we need to make ourselves feel better we just go look in that channel
just kidding compliment us to hoard your casts is what you're saying
we we heard of if you say nice things we we awesome
is so low that we have a booklet of every nice thing anyone has ever said
that's what i'm saying it was funny though because i grabbed this to go put it in testimonials and it was already there i did already so that was really this was nice to see this was super fun there's a special way in watching smart interesting people geek out on something you care about and letting their farcaster freak flags fly so proudly so that was the part i just wanted to read because i thought that was the first time i'd heard it put in that manner and i kinda loved it so for those flying
can i just say flying
the free flag the farcaster free flag welcome welcome to the show
yes and can i just say about this testimonial in particular and we're building gm forecaster network in public as you all know and you know we are kind of actively seeking revenue and sponsors and trying to figure out how to make gm forecaster a sustaining business so that we keep doing what we love forever and ever
it would be great it would be like a lot easier if we had million like audience of millions and views in the tens of thousands and not our niche audience that we have but pull up the cast again so i can read it can you can we what just build said which is interesting people geeking out on something we care about and letting farcaster freak flags fly honestly if that's all we ever do like that's all i wanna do and it's all i wanna build and if the audience stays really small but that's who it is it's just the farcaster freaks and proudly i mean then i'm really happy
yeah absolutely like i love our our our niche audience it's so funny because i'm okay so i spent last week back home and meeting with friends and family and trying to explain what the heck i'm doing right now and it's impossible but i love that we have this speech audience and it's so much fun and i wouldn't change it for a thing like i'm not looking to reach the masses i don't need you know we'll we'll have a 1000000 viewers when you know broadcaster has a 100,000,000 users so daily users and we're fine it's probably not this year we're fine going like this yeah yeah yeah not this year but that's okay but i loved yeah i just loved the farcaster freak
i had several people in my corporate network which is my former life before farcaster back in the day and have asked me what i've been up to and i pointed them to the show and very few of them are crypto native very few of them have ever heard of farcaster but they'll jump on the show and a few people have pinged me to say like i have no idea what you're talking about but you seem really energized and i'm really happy to be
yeah yeah and that was yeah yeah that's what my my that's exactly what i heard as well so that's really funny that you say that and i do want to show yeah you can
call me corporate adrian or or i like this one tradad tradad
so let me i'm just flipping through to see if there's anything absolutely had to oh yes we gotta say we gotta talk about this and then i wanna show the new bitwise commercial but if you have not seen this yet we have a new frame that came out from unlonely and you can subscribe to any channel any any unlonely channel via a frame now and it will give you a notification when you go live so you can subscribe to gm forecaster network's channel to get notified whenever we go live it won't tell you what show is going live so you will have to kind of know what's going on but for example it gave that notification when we went live with vibejack as well as gm broadcaster so you can subscribe there it is in our pinned i was gonna say tweet cast right now in gm broadcaster just pick up that frame and subscribe and get a little notification and i do want to show the bitwise commercial because it is so good i have to only share the tab so that's what i'm looking for right now it's so good so we have to share this and you'll see why hold on go over here and
sharing videos is not the easiest thing when you're sharing from firecaster so hold on
no volume
not either
we're not getting volume i don't think oh for god's sakes we apologize our back our onstage producer took the day off
yeah you know you know how they do hold on let me try one more time i knew i was gonna screw this up oh yeah it says share volume that's weird i don't know why it's not doing it it should be
that is strange i'll try one more time but maybe it's just not working
oh i know why okay hold on sorry never mind we'll do it we'll do it another time but it's really it's a fun the bitwise commercials have been so good they're i think they're just giving a great take on all the things that we do here in this space and in just such a funny way so i love that they're kinda bringing that to the masses and let me try it in one other way it's weird streamyard has this weird thing about showing videos so apologies it has to try it one more time
is it when you do the full frame is it like the shared because yep you show the when we do our opening and closing credits
yeah that's different there that's different there we go keeping sorry
keep all their things and they're leaving hello i'm ethereum and i'm big tech oh losing a user we are really gonna miss you but that stays like to make sure that they don't take anything with me so her posts her photos her followers yeah they all stay here for safe keeping with me users can keep all their things when they leave an app yeah but then you have nothing to remember them by
issue already you play guitar no why would i do that
so that one felt to me like very much a hit on all the other platforms the trad trad social platforms and all of that oh now you couldn't see it
you can hear me right i can't i can't i thought maybe it was just me i was asking me on lonely chat what they so we heard volume but couldn't see the video
oh my god okay i give up but go take a look at it it's on nam forty's page on on warpcast so you can go check that out and it'll be in our show notes sorry about that i know you can only taste the video you can hear it you can't see it now you can taste it you can smell can you smell it could you smell it anyway with that sorry for all the tech issues i don't know what was going on with that it should've worked on the last one that was very weird so you either get video or sound you can't have both today sorry it's just like that meme you know we have we have bitwise video at home video at home you can only hear it anyway alright with that everybody we will be back oh wait a minute am i back without you on monday i think i'm back without you
on monday do you have a do you know who our guest host is
i'm keeping it secret may
i will let you know soon i forgot that that i do have we're gonna have some cohosts next week adrian's doing some travels so for the rest of like the next few weeks we're gonna have some definitely have a few cohosts coming in and i will let you know who that is i forgot to ask somebody i had somebody in mind but i haven't asked them yet so more to be tune in to find out who will be cohosting with me on monday and with that we shall see you sometime next week monday at 8:30 am we're gonna replay this show at 11:30 by the way and we're gonna continue to do that so that the west coasters can jump in and chat as well so with that we will happy friday and we will see you next week and can i ask you an
etiquette question
go ahead
so on this
is about
to close the show i have you can answer this and then i'm curious so i am gonna be traveling a lot so we're bringing a lot of guests when i'm traveling should i pretend i'm so busy or should i just cast all my travel pictures and be really obnoxious about all your feed
and cast all your travel pictures yes
and make it seem like i really could dial into the show and i'm just being lazy and not i just no like i just wanna know if i should pretend i'm too busy to dial in or
no you should definitely cast all the things you're doing it's very difficult to dial in on vacation it is very challenging so i understand it's all good okay anything else i i should have said anything else that was my problem i didn't say anything else when you say
anything else i never have anything else just so you know it doesn't work that way
i know and with that we will see you bye bye