g m farcaster we are back happy new year and happy new year to you adrianne so we like haven't talked to each other since like you guys last saw us until about 2
it's been almost a year and then i was like don't say anything else let's talk on screen so
yeah it's been it's been like 10 days or something it's been a week and a half
definitely the long the longest we've gone without happening
for real we both needed like a break in general and i still have been sick so i've been sick this whole time i was just thinking i'm like i'm
going to pop a
cough drop just in case but i'm better much better than i was when i last last saw you all but it's been like just me resting and trying to like feel better this whole time so and you are like traveling about and having fun and had a great vacay and how was everything
everything was great we just went down to florida
with the fam did the with the traditional you know pilgrimage from the northeast
part cold to warmer sunnier
warmer
part of it
yeah
saw family saw some friends it was pretty chill but i really disconnected i brought my laptop no i didn't bring my laptop i brought my tablet and my my notepad like paper
oh paper jeez
i'm gonna do my kind of annual planning and reflecting and goal set no didn't
no none of that
it's not on farcaster much even like i dipped in yeah
you were very quiet wait what number did you end up at for your for the rewards for last week i'm curious
that's a personal question pearl
don't make me go look for the leaderboard
okay i so there's been 2 weeks of rewards
right
and and it's the top it's 400 people get it so the 1st week and i'm only knowing this because i'm looking i got $15 which is like the i think it's like the top 200 and then last yeah and then this past week i got 10 so it's the i think i was like 2 o something like just
oh okay
the bottom 200
of the
top 400
of the top 400 but that makes sense that makes a lot of sense because you you were very offline which was unusual
are you saying that's not good enough
you know it's not your worth so don't worry about it
i we'll talk about this we'll talk about this a little later and we'll dive into the the drama not the drama but the fun around the rewards but it was i was just curious because you were like you took a good break and i was very impressed you know your your casts also felt like the most of them were they weren't about farcaster right
which is
a good thing yeah yeah like all the casts were about other things that you were you know experiencing in the world and that's not a bad thing at all and gm to our chatters we're so glad you're here i know a lot of you were taking some breaks yeah we've got the the new year background going so yeah just to just for a little bit of fun today thinking a lot about our graphics and things and how to there you go so you can see it a little better and you know i did a lot of like thinking but not some serious planning it was more like thinking about things you gotta do the thinking before you do it like if
you go right to committing to something you're not in a good headspace so you gotta really detach and what we're just it's nonstop if you're doing a live show 3 days a week for 52 weeks a year which is what we did at 51 weeks we took 1 week off
51 weeks we took 1 week
off you just can't it's like it's it's hard to detach and and really think and there's a million things i know we wanna do to to get better and i think we're a little impatient like you want it all now and it was really nice to kind of step back and be like wait but where were we a year ago and we had barely had any guests i think we were still doing 21 minutes of news we were it was we were not on like we i think we might've been using google meet you know just from a
we were yeah we were still using obs we were still using obs we were still using google meet
we weren't
on youtube like we've we weren't on youtube like we've come like it's amazing i can't there were some things that were posted and i'm like i can't believe that was in 2024 like it just is it's mind blowing how much happened in the past year like absolutely mind blowing i don't feel like i am the same person i was a year ago not even close and like i have no idea where who i'm gonna be and what i'm gonna be in a year from now so but it was really good to kinda look back see everything we did and i definitely get impatient where things don't feel like they're moving fast enough maybe i haven't seen enough success like have we done enough do we have enough subscribers no we don't anywhere i look like no we don't all those things and i'm like but you know from 0 we look pretty good
i feel the same so easy to be disappointed because you think i think we also get a lot of love from the timeline which people have no idea how much we appreciate and it feels really good like i feel great about you know like it's it's it's amazing to have people who know who we are and and that feels great but then you'll look at kind of some of the stats and you're like oh but we don't really have yeah numbers especially when you compare to other established
right
podcasts but yeah we're niche we're niche and we're just gonna keep going
yeah and i just like but i definitely found a lot of resolve like looking back at what we have done and i was looking at other people's recaps and things like that i'm like i really should do that but i i just don't have the energy at this moment but just thinking about it i'm like wow that was tremendous we did incredible work in this past year and i'm just excited to now like start to tweak all these things and move all these levers and like really see what we can do in the next year
me too
yeah i'm excited
i also don't believe i'm like one of those like i'll say happy new year until february like oh yeah i i'm like i i don't care
oh yeah this is something
you said so we started the show and she said the
new year can't start on a wednesday
it's like no it's like we're still it's like the weekend's almost here i'm not like everyone's like go go go january 1st like chill people yeah
we're practically in a weekend january next week sometime will be when we really start
i also have this like just innate counterculture like if i see pea everyone doing one thing then i just kinda have to do something else it's a sickness like that's why i hate the current thing like i i it's frightening
it's frightening how how how much we are alike in that way
so part of me is like oh you're all doing your end of your recaps now like well you're definitely not gonna get so i but it helps with the fomo like i don't feel like oh i need to get our blabber list out or like no you're gonna see i'm gonna drop it in 3 weeks from now and you're gonna love it
well the other thing is and i was thinking that too i was thinking about like i saw some cute like people like little edits from pocket and i was like you know what we that awesome one you did when we hit 1 year i was like i wouldn't do anything different i'm like i'd rather do it then like that to me was perfect and i loved it and i'm like we'll just do that again then
but we need both we need
we do but it's all yeah we do but also we're coming up on season 3 we are 4 episodes away from season 3 and that's sort of what i'm looking at as our new year so you'll hear more from us then you know what
i mean
totally that's our new year that's our new year
yeah also 3 weeks from now people have given up on their new year's resolutions already truth that is incredibly true incredibly true but here we are so it is 2025 i'm calling it the year of the penguin you guys call it whatever you want for me it's the year of the penguin i'm very excited by the way if you aren't aware pudgy penguins has 38,000 different gifs and for every single holiday they create new ones so if you're looking for a gif look there look on jiffy but anyway loved this picture this is your background from this was from renee campbell i don't think it was her own photo maybe it was but it was beautiful i love this pink sort of filter and and sit there's something about i was watching this yesterday live there's something about the fireworks over a strip over sydney harbor that i just always love it's like that one the eiffel tower like dubai is always insane there's certain areas of the world that like the fireworks just really hit and these are this is one of them so love this yeah so happy to hear so beautiful love this love this from stv 20 1231 2022 farcaster is cool sorry he's doing it the other way 2023 farcaster is really cool 2024 farcaster is incredible and then garrett farcaster is mainstream 2025 we'll
so where are we gonna go
we'll see about that
opportunity when farcaster goes mainstream opportunity for a new client you guys can always
join for a new client
opportunity another opportunity well this stream i know not mainstream i like us being niche more more of us would be lovely but let's you know let's grow let's grow in a nice pace i'm good with that we don't need to be mainstream this is for miriam take me to farcaster please or the food court either way i'll be very happy joining farcaster this year and becoming friends with all of you was truly a special highlight of 2024 wishing you all a happy new year and i love the fc on the elevator so that was just really really cute and we are glad that you found us miriam this is all
we would all see that and think forecaster as well
absolutely oh 100% i'd be like oh my god that's so cool we wanna go to that elevator now and this was from the chopping block you referenced this earlier the blabber leaderboard and as far as facts did everyone see this i first saw this over on twitter and this is the chopping block from coindesk so just think about that for a second laura shin is number 2 mhmm on the blabber
list dan romero is number 1 like the host is number 2 that was so funny
and ted's number 3
like what a great what a great list it's so funny
yeah that's amazing i guess for the host though like if you're a good interviewer true you say
and she is
you say fewer things and you get people to talk we have had dan on our show we don't interview we just try to have conversations
just chat yeah
he's so hard to have a conversation with you guys
because it's not two way he really does yap
he comes on by the way
he's a great yapper he's an incredible yap
comes on though and he's just like oh what's on my mind and he'll just monologue for 20 minutes about anything so i'm not surprised to see this i really wanna do this by the way i'm so close to having all of our like being able to programmatically get word count if we count the umms i might be number 1
yeah probably it's between the 2 of us like you we have to take us out of the equation to get like a real number because there's no way we aren't number 1 and number 2 because half the time we're doing the show by ourselves
so we're definitely yeah
but this is this was cool
and ted was awesome i remember ted on on the chopping block it was great
this is great this is a great list i love seeing like you know dan and ted you know 1 in 3 on there is an is amazing it's been great seeing laura shin diving into farcaster a little bit would love to see more of that but it's i love this list it was so fun it's so fun and i did i was like oh we really should do that but then i was just like no i can't i just i can't i don't have it in me right now but i did love it and i love this from brad end of year thanks to farcaster community builders building community broadly across fc is hard these 5 are doing it well live the same by hank moody is tireless with a 150 plus interviews of thoughtful f seers getting to know one another i don't even think i've seen that so really appreciated that shout out so i can go check it out and then gm farcaster is creating a daily ritual a digital third place to hang out and enjoy fc led by adrian and anish praff sense is building a daily rhythm of questions engagement and support for each other led by 3 erica girl ua and tyler faust peacock is building a community among artists with great interviews and engagement los fomos well known fun interviews are providing a framework to get to know great forecasters led by pauline and taco hope these continue to shine and we add more in 2025 thank you so i love this thank you brad i really loved the framing of gm farcaster as a third space so 3rd spaces being things like coffee shops right so it was like yes we're your neighborhood coffee shop
so that comes from first the first and second place is being work and home yeah right like that's where most people are going between work and home working home so where the 3rd place is and i think people have talked about like the decline of like organized religion that was like primarily used to be like that was the 3rd place and that goes away so then what replaces that obviously gm forecaster
gm forecaster obviously like putting us on
your you put watching us on your tv on youtube and hanging out is like the 3rd place
it's the 3rd place especially if you're jumping in our chat i think that is where that makes a lot of sense right you're in our coffee shop you're hanging out with us we're chatting and you're meeting other people and they're in the chat with you so that is how i envision this i love it grab your coffee and join us every every other day
and i guess we we may be revisiting hypersubs this year and stuff i know we've been talking about that but for those that are somewhat new and don't know we have group chats for hypersub members we have group chats for people who are just kind of obsessively like our our heaviest chatters and old friends and we have our channel as well so there are and then and then at various conferences like ethdenver and farcon we do meetups so they're we're kind of building out community and if you are new lean in say hello introduce yourself start chatting make friends
perfect love it and i think like yeah we have a lot of things to like rethink readjust and we'll be we'll be doing some of that early this year when it's you know when we're when we feel like it when we're ready this from scott comers i saw andrew yang posted one too and there's a few other folks about the math of 2025 so he didn't post it on farcastrin i don't know why he only posted over an x so i pulled it over here did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning that's because 2025 is a perfect square yes 2025 is 45 to the second equals 1 plus 2 plus i whatever it's the 1st square year since 1936 and the next one is 21/16
but that's not all redone so if you wanna dive more this gets very complicated and detailed and he is you know a math genius this is not like he knows his stuff so if you wanna dive in more go check out this thread over on x it is quite something so and it really dives into the math of it all but it was it was interesting seeing people talking about that a lot and i don't know you know what that actually means in anything but i thought it was very interesting so i don't think i don't think like this so it doesn't you know it didn't it didn't cross my mind i didn't look at 2025 and go oh it's a square no but i appreciate those who did so that was pretty awesome
and we're a quarter way quarter way into the new century that some of us remember the millennium like it was yesterday because we're
old literally yeah i kept seeing notes about that people posting things about do you remember this and i'm like i vividly remember because we had a y2k team at my work and i was on it so i had to go at 6 am on january 1 2000 and go turn on all the computers and make sure they worked cause we had to turn them all off before we left and we had to check and make sure everything was gonna be working when we came back the next day so it was crazy so crazy way back in the day so that yeah that was definitely my craziest new year's experience for sure this from jet jay hackworth introducing assimo a farcaster agent that generates your own personalized farcaster wrapped built this because i believe we're just scratching the surface of what's possible with agents in crypto and wanted to get my hands dirty some thoughts so this is really cool it was having some issues i noticed like people it was people were calling it and it would either take a long time to reply or not reply at all and you know which i think you could probably commiserate
as yeah but look and and as he was talking about it was like oh this is something i thought was interesting what's the best way to learn it's like you just get your hands dirty and you build something so yeah it's a it's a little kind of what do
you call it little side project did threw something out it's not
gonna be perfect yes i can commiserate shout out gmc 1 my forecaster bot which is the dumbest ai anyone has ever met but no it's not
no it's not occasional like
you know how most ais like will hallucinate
5 yeah
hallucinate 5% of the time like my bot 5% of the time has the most insightful things to say and knows exactly like it's answers so good and i'm like yeah i love it and 95% of the time i'm like what are you even talking about it's just like
what is wrong with you
but a reminder to everyone i'm doing it in my spare time
and it's been a you know it's been
a few years since i was really a hands on developer
was a since she was a coder
yeah but i'm really actually optimistic because it's i have a i know exactly what needs to get done and it's all doable and with llms like coding is so like it it's all within it's all attainable and it's all gonna happen and this is the year you will be able to interact with gm forecaster programmatically on the feed it's funny because everything i've seen so many people like comment about us
doing a v two frame and but mostly what they're or people people tagging us in cast where people are looking for information to get caught up and i feel like everything they're talking about will be addressed well with your bot once it's working the way it should it's like the bot i feel like the bot is the thing like that they're asking for but it's just not quite there yet that's all
yeah
yeah
well this is what just if you wanna nerd out for a sec what i realized is people i need to be able to parse the intent of the question and then figure out what path to take so if someone says hey what's new on farcaster the bot doesn't have a concept of time so it just does like it has access to transcripts and it's using llm like pattern matching to find when did we talk about something like that and then it'll be like oh you should check out episode 14 here's the link and you're like but that's not what i asked so i have but i have all the metadata right so that's kind of more deterministic like so i have to parse the intent and if you're in and if you need if you're asking like certain questions and i can like okay focus on this on these transcripts like there will be a way to do it but right now there's only one
it just takes time
there's no if statements it's not like if you're asking this go here it's just it's just an llm that has a little bit of access to things we've talked about
yeah exactly by the way this is funny the good old days when we turned computers off do you remember
we weren't surveilled can we also talk about equilibrium yet and the and the yeah we're getting that yet because that threw me for the nostalgic like of like oh remember when like i could walk outside the house and not be filmed i miss those days
yeah that's
everywhere i go
not anymore not anymore so a few other things on awesome o it this was mine and there was a couple other couple things in here that i thought were pretty good it did say i was 99.08% of forecaster users wish they could cast as much as you i don't
know that they you've been active for more days of a year
i know that's impressive well it was a leap year oh it was a leap year
366 that's actually
that that's awesome
366 i love that it this this comment was funny we hope you've taken a break to eat and sleep at some point but who needs that when you have farcaster now let's talk about likes and recast you have a staggering 253 100,000 likes i love it so that was kind of fun and then it went on it had some like really funny things
it did shout you out as my now onto whose cast you have liked the most adrianne and by the way it went the other way too
mine too so like you're number 1 on both ways
like i
guess that makes sense
makes a lot of sense this powerhouse not only cohosts the broadcaster news show but also manages to bring joy into work with devops practices oh and she's a mom of 3 we're guessing her casts are filled with a wild mix of text news and diaper changes no diaper changes no no diaper changes and my seconds were dwr and tony hawk no surprises here and again they went the other direction i did love this though also gm farcaster going live from farcon at 9:30 am pt was our number one most liked my number one most liked cast so that is not surprising and it also one of my favorite memories from the past year so very fun so the awesomo was very fun had some good insights go check it out very cool
couple other new year's fun things if you don't know maya draeson from time magazine and timepiece's nft project she's amazing she is an incredible brand manager and branding expert and every year she sets an intention a word of the year that's supposed to be like the intention for the year and she had a couple years in a row where gm was her word last year i think it was divine and she said she didn't quite hit where she thought it was going to and this year you can go check out her word of the year and it is down home so coming back to like more down home like i don't know just like feeling like more in inner in her home space i guess so i thought that was kind of a interesting shift but go check that out a lot of fun there also boys club had their 2025 predictions and i was dying these are so good and so funny we have to go through them alright 2025 predictions sweetgreen accepts base usdc i mean that could happen
like some of these i'm like that could happen the next one k o l's in the white house press pool that will happen no doubt at all the press pool is gonna be really interesting this time around a non dating show do you remember the dating game like yes
from like the 70 actual one of course
actual one like the yes original
yeah bachelor's like that was literally like bachelorette number 123
yes exactly they couldn't see who was behind the wall so it essentially was the original non dating show
right they answered questions and then you chose who was behind the freaking curtain
right visa like based on like you pick they picked 1 2 or 3 based on their answers to their question yeah so so right and now back in time
right and now with the apps like dating it's like purely the other way right so it's just tell me what you look like
just i need to see what you look like before i even get to know you yes exactly funny story i once went out with this guy he was way too young for me but really nice and he was just talking about like how much how he was struggling to meet people on bumble and blah blah blah and i helped him redo his whole entire profile and then he met a bunch of women and he was so happy he was a really nice guy and he was you know perfect like just had all the things but just did not present himself well so i fixed him it's sent to him
are you offering that service to anyone else
sure i'll be happy to help any yes i totally would help anybody do that honestly like i took pictures for him and stuff like that like because
wow
his pictures were horrible like the whole like he just wasn't good at showing himself and he was a really nice guy but it just wasn't for me he was too young he was like 13 years younger than me i have now adjusted my thinking there but at the time that seemed too young okay moving on sleep to earn i like that let's do that that sounds great and i feel like that brian johnson would be in favor of that brian armstrong bleaches his eyebrows please don't do that brian
what's the backstory on eyebrow bleaching there's got okay
i don't know but okay
because brian
armstrong with bleached eyebrows and the bald head like that seems like a a recipe for disaster please don't do that trending tiktok sound of someone getting rugged holly market netflix show would totally watch that ai onlyfans meets ai crypto that's definitely happening and i'm still shocked that brian gwan has not done that yet honestly i really thought that was the direction he eventually ended up in your ex joins farcaster that is my nightmare come true so it has not come true please don't let it come true i do not want that thank you all my exes stay in texas please
0x designer face reveal do you did you meet 0x designer at each other when i met him that guy no incredibly handsome incredibly handsome
wow yeah does he want you doxing him this way
that's all i'm saying yes
he does
like yes he does yes he does i mean why wouldn't he
no i need to be honest all i said was he's incredibly handsome i know i'm kidding newborn baby named after meme coin i'm sure that's already happened there's a little doge out there somewhere dolly parton admits crypto addiction listen dolly parton is a national treasure and we need to save her at all costs she should get nowhere near crypto please leave dolly alone leave dolly alone ted ted not lasso wins crypto the game season 3 i would love to see that boys club round trip 7 figures would not like to see that please don't guys brian johnson erectile dysfunction death
brian i mean it would be an interesting way to go but don't please don't adrian dittman comes out i'll circle back to that in a second but the pope makes a meme going please don't and grimes promotes it she would adrianne dittman for those who don't know do you know who that is you've been a little bit offline so i'm not sure
if you know who that is but not that offline
okay okay
so that is somebody on twitter who may or may not also be elon speaking of twitter
sorry i i will give the if you missed it it's like a is he a non or just a rando on twitter right he complimented elon's parenting skills so elon posted a pro like accents and and adrian dittman said like elon you are such a good dad and then someone did the analysis of like this is elon's alt
yeah no one knows who he is alt it's elon's alt well the big thing was that he was on a twitter space so everything went a little crazy on twitter which actually brings me to my next cast so let me go there and then we'll we'll we'll recap that briefly is there is it like this may you may not realize that this actually is connected so this is from
my god right so much has happened in the last 10 days
so saram dot talking about swords yeah is it oh i know i've got that too saram saram saram saram
happy new year all and happy new year to you sir is the new ai guy for the white house and then he got just attacked on twitter regarding h one b pieces and a whole lot of let's just say racism so it was a little crazy over there and elon in defending some of the h one b or let me rephrase that adrian dittman in defending some of the
h one b's was on
a twitter space talking about elon in a voice that sounds strikingly familiar so anyway
so it's been an interesting couple of weeks yeah since we've been gone since we've been gone so hopefully you've you've enjoyed you've enjoyed that time off but
i have enjoyed seeing shahram cast more he's casted a few times he probably enjoys the less racism on farcaster
than twitter all yeah nobody's like look you know nobody's attacking him over here no everyone's just saying happy new year yeah
by the way for those that don't know sriram was on a moment of zen at some point an older episode oh i gotta go find out chat with our friends dan romero and antonio
i wonder if i may have already heard that but i have to i'll have to go back and listen to it again yeah speaking of like that i think also that's probably the other reason that dan is at the top of the blabber list is he no longer does moment of zen i don't think so he's got he's got pent up blab you know yapping that he needs to get out there so we welcome you anytime dan but also
he's an english major he's he's born to yap
he loves words and share him i will learn how to say your name properly and we'd love for you to come by sometime on gm forecaster and talk to us about all the things we'd love that
this from anything else you wanna say about that before i
no but i just think we're we're ready to step up our our guests in 2025 and so
yeah we're gonna we're gonna step
it up a little
bit too taib farcaster is an organic bottoms up sv for crypto farcaster appeals to builders primarily it kind of always has it's open so anyone can come and hang out but social capital is built through proof of work and being a positive community member so this is more like reminder reminder folks
if you're new here you're new here this is true this is all true and i just liked that and he went on to talk a little bit more about a few other things so go take go take a look at that love that i gotta switch to my other my other group of links yeah so we've been gone for a while so i realized that we do attempt to do 29 minutes
they run a little longer
a little longer today we got a little bit more to more to talk about but i i have the insanity over on twitter i have to say although entertaining i have been grateful that it has not been it hasn't completely taken over our our world over here so that has been yeah
that's us saying thank you
thank you thank you we appreciate it yeah i appreciate the sanity i really do this so rewards the 2nd week of rewards went out it was a photo finish i finished 70 out of 400 but my response was okay which one of you mfers bought me out of 69th place and it was revealed that it was djen was it djen ventures oops i'm looking at the wrong one
djen veteran
djen veteran djen veteran bumped me i can't find the oh there it is you were leading the way so d gen veteran said not one to brag but i don't need to try for the top spot anymore i got the true number 1 on warp pass rewards he was the one who bumped me from from the coveted 69th position and this was from dan to help you better understand warp cast rewards why does my score go down if users removes likes recast replies engagement score for each cast will be recalculated when the job runs hourly we will likely tweak this in early 2025 so you don't lose your score should i cast less to get a higher score no it's based on total inbound engagement if you have a lot of followers your engagement score is normalized relative to accounts that have fewer followers but casting more with decent engagement will lead to a higher score than casting a few times with really high engagement newer accounts with fewer casts are scoring highly yes we adjust for active followers which makes a difference we will likely revisit and tweak the adjustment if we feel if it feels like the meta shifts too much toward new accounts we want a balanced game and then 4 what is an active follower a follower active in the last number of days and is not an account warpcast believes to be spammy so they're not telling us how many days but maybe 7 is my guess i don't know so that is what is playing into the score so what was really funny in this last round was that swampnet was right there she was right at number 5 and she was holding strong and she was putting in a lot of effort like a lot of effort to to win that you know coveted top 5 spot and matthew came in the last minute
it just posted it posted some news from its life and bumped her right out of the top five it was kinda sad i gotta be honest that's a little sad i'm sorry
i did not was she casting about this i missed it i i was like how did you know
how were you following the top five she was talking about
you really wanted to
i forgot to grab the cast but she was she was doing some funny things with her mother-in-law like posting these really funny pictures there were swords involved there was a whole thing which we haven't even gotten to the swords yet so it was just really funny because it was right up until like i'm talking like less than a day left and she was still in the 5 spot and then he just like hey guys i'm moving over to splits
and it was like boom his thing blows up and she gets bumped out of 5 i'm so sorry swapped that you didn't deserve to be done dirty like that by matthew it wasn't his fault though he was just like
post casting like normal so we're very sorry
but also whether you're number 5 or number 6 or 401 and you didn't get any rewards like
we still love you
don't don't get so upset we still
we still love you we really do yeah it was it was it was really kind of funny to like watch the the leaderboard at that last minute because i i was invested just to like see like where she ended up because i knew she was putting so much effort in so speaking of the other news i just mentioned
i'm gonna go back to swapnet i just have to say so this goes back to forecaster requires proof of work swapnet has been putting the work in but she's not been here for years years and so she came in she is killing it if you're not following her follow her she like yes
please do
she's fantastic but i mean matthew i has a very low fid which is not your worth either except he's put the work in for you know consistently over years yeah so yeah he gets a little you know it's he's he's he's
got the the skill to bump you yep the game is the game it's just you can say
it's not fair but he's been here
so
no and she didn't say it wasn't fair it was nothing like that it was
more playful you did
i didn't say it wasn't fair i didn't say it wasn't fair the game is the game what i'm saying is it was like hard to watch
but yeah
like get bumped out of that spot when i knew she was working for it it was just really funny no it's totally fair in terms of the game and like it's just was it was just funny that you know after all that effort but this is the this is a note from matthew this wasn't the one that you gotta push him over the edge but this was a little bit more from matthew it's been very fun to start my splits journey building with proxy studio dish and mcbain i'm sure there will be lots more overlapping ideas to come and this was in response to proxy saying been a pleasure using splits we've integrated our team onto their team's product for ops and integrated splits into clankr v 2 for more customizable reward split that's very cool now we're talking about using splits in another way splits team members like matthew just joined splits on design and mcbain have been engaging actively in the clanker eco as creators and builders clank pad for your channel token needs really love the protocol and the team's products and like the people best so the reason i'm kinda highlighting this is this feels like it's so like cool to see all these different folks coming to work with splits that are all from the farcaster ecosystem and just like integrating that product and all of that so it was really cool to see that but yeah so and i did ask matthew because i was like okay so what does this mean for events he's it's still being maintained but there's probably not going to be a lot of new releases anytime soon to the events platform yeah events.xyz since he is now i think full time with splits so but cool yeah exciting to see
congratulations
these new opportunities the other thing we have not talked about yet is farcade this happened while we were on break farcade launched and it's been nuts this was the week 1 recap 135,000 gamers 450 k games played 14,000,000 farcade points earned this was 4 days ago so it's even more now follow friday and referral achievements are now live in app friend finding next week new social network new games and new features they're like on fire this has been so fun i regret deeply that it didn't exist 3 weeks ago when we did casto
because there's multiple ways this would have been used so have you played at all because i know you've been sort of offline so i wasn't sure if you played yet i think i challenged you a couple of times she played a little bit yeah
yeah i played a little bit of the tower block tower blocks and 2048
and yeah we played a little
yeah so if you haven't checked it out it yeah i think thought it had to be open on the phone check out farcade on your phone you can find it in that center icon that little the little four things it'll be right there and it is fantastic and a lot of fun i am pretty obsessed with 2048 and now geocrush so those are the 2 i cannot figure out the one that's like space invaders i just can't like i need a tutorial of some sort or something like i can't get it i can't i like i feel like i'm just wasting tickets playing it because i'm just not quite getting it tower blocks is fine it's a little boring for me but i'm obsessed with the other 2 so but it's been a lot of fun
and it's a great v two frame
yeah great v
two frame understand the difference like just imagine imagine doing that on a i mean you just you couldn't right that was like 4 buttons
yeah you couldn't and it's and it's really fun and the social graph is built in so you can challenge friends and all of that and i just can see how it's going to get built out it's going to be very cool so i think like this is going to be this is i think the way we're kicking off 2025 honestly is this'll be this'll be something we're talking about for a little bit and swords because why i don't know it's just because
i i don't know go ahead
you're explaining you're going to explain swords the secret to where it came from and why it became so like why swords are the thing
i honestly don't know it was like i this is how it felt like to me all of a sudden there was a swords token and then there was a swords channel and then there were swords all over my timeline and honestly i mean i'm here for it i kinda like the swords so i feel like it just hit some kind of thing with everybody and they were like yeah swords cool it's
right it's memetic apparently
it doesn't do it for me
okay
swords don't do it for me and because i was less online like i just assumed i missed like the real point but i'm staying
power yeah there is no real point the point is swords but maybe there's a point swords yes we like swords that's it
why why do we like swords
i don't know but so does elon look he's wearing gladiator i don't know yeah but we do like alright fine yeah i really you
guys are swords but it was everywhere
it's everywhere and it it just popped off like crazy and she's running rounds now and she was in the top five after week 1 so it's been yeah it's been really pretty fun to kind of watch this just sort of happen out of nowhere but yeah just a just a fun little thing just a fun little thing happening and in a totally on the other end of the spectrum something that has been being worked on for years is equilibrium and shipped this week on equilibrium this is from cassie initial release of public beta of quorum are e2ee and p2p alternative to discord why q was originally built in the first place probably the reason you saw a bunch of casts with a long string of letters starting with q m which i needed to go do whatever i needed to do and i just haven't had a chance launched with one of my favorite ads i've made so far on x milestone 2 thirds next up for test net through quorum is all ready to test some of this now and here was that little ad but oh i forgot to set this for audio so you can go check that out sorts
and this from cassie we had more active users in the first hour of launching quorum than some apps have in their 31,000,000 strategic funding round years into their project being live make it make sense so that's really cool really cool to see and the way i think i make that make sense is proof of work it's for faster proof of work i really think it's the far faster connection first of all and having that group of folks ready to dive in and try something and try something new and then just the amount of work that she's put in and the time she spent building sort of this group of folks who are already running nodes and all these different things so i think that's how i would what do you think
i if that is true i love that story for all of us that narrative that it's like only on forecaster it's the 2 things so you and we did talk shout out farcaster 101 where we talk about what makes farcaster unique and and why people should come check it out is because you have people who will use your product it's like people who yes will use and but i think on the other side of that is the build in public which is cassie's been building in public talking about calibrium getting people involved like and not without any hiccups like she's had challenges along the way and she talks about it so she's fully building in public and therefore when you see someone it's you trust her you trust that this is something you know it's not something she spun up on a weekend and is kind of like half half assed it it's like this has been her passion project and
yep
you know if you saw her talk at far con remember that talk she gave
yes so good barely understood it one of my favorite talks from far con and because she went through the history of computing yeah like it was very cool and she had like visuals of like these old computers and it was it was really interesting super interesting
and she's been talking a lot about equilibrium i've read she wrote a there's a equilibrium white paper that i scanned and then she was like okay that's too hard for people to understand then she dumbed it down like it was like the explain it like i'm 5 equilibrium it's i i understood a lot of it but i still didn't like it didn't fully fully click and she keeps saying that's not on you i'm like but and i said to her i was like cassie i it's because i need a weekend to like quietly read it i was like it's not that i couldn't understand it it's like i just didn't because i didn't have the time to and she's kept saying like that's not on you that's on me like i need to communicate it better i'm like no you don't no you don't but anyway but also for me seeing quorum messenger and i don't know i used it which is like the first app built on quilibrium and combined with the ad that she made which is fantastic i was like oh okay and because then i could get go through the steps of it's a you know it's it's it's end to end encryption for messaging yeah that you do not need a phone number you do not need an email like you need your device it is peer to peer equilibrium's a peer to peer network so no centralized you know server and the messages do not stay anywhere on the network it's they only they're only on the network during transit
okay
so they only live on your devices there's no like backup anywhere else they don't stay on the network and they're and if you they're stored kind of locally on your phone or your device your history if you clear your cache like they're gone
interesting that's really interesting
yeah so it's really meant to be a truly very private and secure private messaging
network interesting i i feel like you know she has such a specific point of view and passion that just goes into every choice she makes as a founder choice you know what i mean which i really appreciate that very focused energy so it's amazing to see it all coming coming to life so
if you and when you guys are on for years
i know
we need to get away cassie
and we need to do that now we need to do that now because now we really have something to dive into that's like more accessible for everybody so i think that would be yeah it's it's time we gotta get her around here and it's i think this is one of those moments where i think about this and then i think about also
what phil had said let me see if i can find it i hadn't gotten to that yet
today i got bored and watched some tv july wrote a screenplay we are not the same excuse me
oh i missed this one i gotta realize i got a really yeah i got really into this idea yesterday it's not
a bond film anymore but i did end up writing a 15 page 8 episode tv series outline oh it's just an outline it's not a full script
it's got time it's just outline
come on july
the reason i'm connecting these 2 together is just like this is why i'm on farcaster yeah like this one who is creating a camera that can digitally notarize events and help us deal with ai and also you know help build flying cars also just wrote a screenplay and then you know cassie's reinventing the whole concept of you know peer to peer encrypted messages and like we get to be here and be a part of this and it's to me just an amazing thing so this is why i'm on firecaster things like this by the way i would totally watch this i would like this built please and thank you like send it we need to send this couple other thing from some amazing builders yes spin up a dao spin up a dao real quick build it
let's do it
and we'll get it funded yeah i think it's it sounds amazing like honestly i would totally watch this this from steven sell he dropped this yesterday irl is an app sends out a notification once a day for you to post a picture of what you're doing only visual visible to your mutuals on farcaster avail available now irl.steer fun so similar to be real i believe is what
what
he said and i should probably do that like right now while we're doing the show would be really kind of funny this was you know like he was the one who also
also did the stories type of app where you could add your to your story okay i'm gonna post late i'm allowing my camera
taking that picture and taking this one
it does a weird thing where it does a picture from both directions so
yeah right it's because then you can't really fake it
ginny right so you're getting you're getting both so it's kind of fun something fun go check it out and if you're on there i just posted so go give it a look did you sign up
for it already
yeah i did i did yeah i was on it so it's pretty cool i'm doing it now too but alright awesome and there's like a you're supposed to post within 5 minutes but there's a posting late option so i'm just gonna tell you right now steven sill i'll be posting late probably every time this from oh god how do we pronounce his name again
you all hall right hall i was trying to remember howley okay howley release i don't remember holly holly it was you hall right holly holly
but with the with the hard e at the end right holly
i think so holly we hope release literally
wanted to know like after all the time we've said it wrong i made i took the effort to learn it and then forgot vacation holly
you don't if you don't use it you'll lose it
i need to meet you in real life yes i
think that's what by the
way if i had a face and like we'd like sat across and like had a coffee together i wouldn't it would be burnt into my brain but because it's just some stupid pfp and letters it's just like
it doesn't make sense
i can't learn it
it's so funny okay well this is from however you say his name release the final updates for recaster in 2024 a lot of bug fixes user location eth address verification support at the start of 2024 i never thought i'd be building on farcaster looking back from recaster to modbot then new caster what i've done has exceeded my own expectations most importantly i've made many great friends at farcaster received incredible support from the community thank you all as always happy new year see you in 2025 just thought that was a nice little note and then we also had this from kevin o'connell o'connell and i launched agentscan v2 you can now see highlighted oles dot network agents and ask them questions based off their transactions and code try it out here and i have not seen this for some reason i completely missed this and it was interesting because when i saw it was from this random take random hot take and then i went back and was like how come i didn't see this this is weird the reason i liked farcaster so much when i joined was i was able to meet and get to know a new group of people that i otherwise wouldn't have been able to know similar to what we were just talking about today it's just not the same there's not a lot of new content that i look at and go woah lately x has been doing has been doing for me biggest need in my opinion is to bring more of this to the network especially especially since distribution is so much better on x this has more views than most if not all of my top casts here and i have 312 x followers and 54,000 farcaster followers a lot of it boils down to giving a net new users a reason to try it out using crypto in positive some way is one direction warpcast rewards is a great example of this i'd argue it would be good to go further one way off the top of my head could be using some all of the 2,800,000 eth in the storage registry for developer creative incentive creator incentives which creates new experiences which creates new content so here's a part that i thought was weird so he has this like video on twitter which i just did not see anywhere natively on farcaster and i don't know if that helped sort of drive more attention or whatever but it you know it was a great point we do need more content we do need more people all those things but also like i i still want curated you know i still want like the good stuff and not everything i see on twitter is good like i'd say only about 5% is so do we want all of it probably not probably not thoughts thoughts on what he had to say there and then we're gonna start
to wrap up
well you know i'm busy over here trying to post on forecaster be real
okay
and i'm having some issues steven still i alright so i guess maybe maybe i have to do this another time okay because we're live on a show and you're talking about something yes
i'm talking about something
else anyway
so agree with him largely i think about kind of like early forecaster it does feel a little different everything nothing static right like and your experience on apps like it's it's i feel like it's constantly changing for me personally
twitter does see like there's a ton of more it's just it there's so much more
i accidentally must have watched something bad at some point and now the algorithm is feeding me slop i'm like can i just do a reset like i don't
it's really hard to undo once you do it yeah yeah
so twitter's almost i it is just it is slop of slop of slop so i'm only on following now the for you feed is so fucked for me
yep
so i'm not getting i don't feel like i'm discovering anything interesting on twitter it is like pure outrage bait and like polarization shit i like
ugh coming to you now on twitter hi yeah
are we on twitter
yes yeah that's so funny
so yeah but i
i agree
but that being said like like i i think for our castor it won it like my experience on our castor i think there's there's so much more volume than there was yeah and i the the ratio of like really good insight to everything else has probably swapped a little bit so when it was smaller there was much less but it was like really really high quality like anything you saw was like wow this is amazing and i don't feel that way anymore and like i'll scroll and like i will scroll on forecaster and kinda get to the end and i'm like nah that i didn't really that was kind of boring if i'm allowed to say that
yeah
you're allowed to do it yeah
not all the time you know and and it takes what i'm noticing is for for me to get a good experience on firecaster it still requires effort like when i cast and reply it feels so much better yeah when i scroll it's like it's not the same so on twitter i can scroll and be entertained in the you know in a completely dumpster fire of like misogyny and racism that seems to be every all i'm getting
you definitely it's under
the wrong
thing but it's under data
i know like go back go back i don't want this
where's my demo this is why i have different accounts and i have different accounts like i have a a totally different account that i look at politics on twitter and news because if i bring that into my crypto account it just messes everything up and i stop seeing like the folks i wanna see in regards to web 3 so i have to be like very careful about that because every once in a while i'll i'll see something and i'll click on the wrong thing and i'm like oh no no no no no unclick unclick unclick unclick
and then you see still
on the bottom of
it yeah
yeah because i don't want it over here yeah
it's it's a lot but i do think that there are some good points in there that yes we you know yes we need more interesting content yes yes yes all that stuff but also like i i still feel like i find more interesting people and more interesting things that they're doing and make sure that like you know yes you i get you know sharing that on twitter for reach but like don't forget don't forget us over here at farcaster that was like you know good example with scott comer's like posting the math thing over on twitter okay yeah you're gonna get a wider reach but also you're probably gonna have a lot more people who are actually very interested in what you're saying if you posted it on farcaster because like you know that they're your people like they're you know they love math math stuff you know it's like i don't know you're missing out you're missing out on the people that you would actually connect with on this issue rather than you know they're scrolling past oh that's interesting kind of thing so for what it's worth alright let's start to wrap this up we still have a few more links yeah it's been a lot i get it it's been it's been a lot this was so funny to me from alina
quote cast co casting jace we did another cast out i'll just leave this here like
and jason we missed you too yeah we did say
we missed you we really did
we did say we needed you
yeah and so that happened since we were last on so congratulations garrett who was our final winner in cast out mean point island you know we gotta review and revamp and we'll bring it back again probably maybe march ish we'll see and a couple other quick things
just this is for mapper chicks just filmed the last two workouts of 5th december a lot goes into planning filming editing designing graphics and slowly updating the leaderboard each day but it's been totally worth it i'm so grateful everyone has taken part engaged with the workouts and supported let's finish the year strong to the smart people who did the 5th december like you're so far ahead of the game with all these people who are just starting their news or new year's resolutions congratulations well done and lastly i'm gonna leave with this go give it a read this jimmy carter just passed away a few days ago couple days ago and kekers had posted this jimmy carter's message on the voyager the voyager is the the telescope i think right spacecraft that's not not a telescope that's hubble spacecraft that's been you know heading out into space to bring like a message from us since the seventies and this was his message there but just like a note i still believe that jimmy carter is the best former president we've ever had for whatever issues he had while he was in office there is not even a close second to former president impact than jimmy carter in terms of habitat humanity alone like without even looking at areas where he you know went around the world to help with peace plans and things like that just his impact in habitat humanity you gotta you gotta appreciate that and just his integrity and what he brought to the table in terms of his just values and bringing those to the office so passed away at a 100 years old amazing life so thank you mr president for all you did and that's it any other any thoughts any last things that i missed
about jimmy carter or about in general forecasting anything or swords and farcade and there was a lot
this is what happens when you're gone for a week and a half there was a lot
i think i think in an hour and and 10 minutes we we covered enough
we i did like for for
yeah how many episodes did we miss 1 2 3 4 5 5 about something like that so yeah
we did not even miss that many i think
just like 5 oh well last week yeah
you're right friday before
the monday 2 yeah yeah so 5 episodes but it's a lot in in yeah in we're back in broadcaster world oh yeah
back friday
we're back friday do we have a guest friday we might have a guest friday
we
don't january 3rd did that change
january 10th
oh okay okay never mind
yes a guest next friday
it's next friday okay yeah alright
awesome and you need some guest hosts next early next week
oh god is that next week alright we'll talk after we get off of here if i have anybody hiding in the in the chat who is up for guest testing let me know by the way this is funny veteran was in the chat i didn't even realize thanks to shout out i'm west coast on new year's day it's early but still here for the gm we appreciate you being here yeah you you killed it with the with the game you beat me you beat me i'm officially beat all right and with that everybody i hope you've had a lovely new year's day i hope we helped you kick off 2025 farcaster style we will be back friday at our usual 8:30 am est we will replay at 11:30 and then we'll get back to like our more regular scheduled stuff next week so we're kinda rolling into this a little slow so anything else adrienne before we say
bye bye you wouldn't i'll have said that my prediction you know people do predictions my prediction is 2025 is going to be a there's gonna be nothing regular or normal about this year yeah anything you think that is crazy they're like it will everything will go to the extreme more like things will be more more wild and unpredictable than we can imagine so let's not commit to doing anything regular but we but we will be covering farcaster news about 3 times a week
and it'll be about
29 minutes
you know it'll be about 29 minutes ish normally and sometimes we'll have a guest by the way this was my oops nope nope nope wrong thing hold on i had a meme that i shared on the timeline and i felt like it was the most accurate of memes for this year like that to me like encapsulates
you know w i'm hopeful but i'm nervous and here we go so with that everybody it's gonna be good it'll be fine it'll be fine yeah
it's gonna be great and by the way for us we have eat denver to look forward to next month already like end of february we have far con in may yeah we have like we're gonna have fun
it's gonna be a really fun year but yeah i think that it's gonna it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot so here we go here we go and with that everybody we're gonna say a bye bye and happy new year