Transcript: GM Farcaster ep28, Nov 22, 2023

NounishProf, adrienne · GM Farcaster

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let's go gm farcaster like that timing definitely just snuck up on me and i'm getting i'm trying to load unlovely and i'm getting a little error message so hopefully that's working okay gm it is wednesday november 22nd and you're here with adrian and the nounish prop and we are bringing you 21 minutes of farcaster news to start your day and we have to start with a thank you if you'll see our backgrounds it is a little thank you to our friends at purple we're very excited to have won one of the 5 spots for the most recent purple prop house and just little congrats to the winners of purple's retroactive funding round 4 this is from c corella forecaster kits with dil stack survey caster from ponder naynar next from alex grover gm forecaster from us and teleport from hard dick i'm just gonna say it and we had a couple shout outs to you all thank you again purple we really appreciate your support adrianne said massive to all the purple who voted for gm podcast to receive a grant love and support means a ton and the love and support from our supporters our audience we really appreciate you anything you wanna add there

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oh my goodness i'm so so so grateful and it really does mean a lot obviously it's thanksgiving week so gratitude's on the mind but we started this about 2 months ago kinda towards the end of september end of september yeah weird experiment and we've been having a lot of fun and if we didn't have the supporters cheering us on not sure we'd have made it this far

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definitely so we really appreciate you all and i'm hoping that we're live right now because i can't seem to check so and if we're not you'll be just watching this back in the recording so there we go and i do wanna tell everybody that we are live now so hopefully

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we've got confirmation confirmation

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from our

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live audience okay good hear us thanks

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i'm just not able to fetch channels at the moment so i can't see if anybody's there fantastic so thank you again purple we really appreciate you purple also has a new round with gitcoin grants purple and metacartel invite you to submit media art and content that you or your team have already published around the topic how we connect retro funding for media so gitcoin grants builder it's a new way to launch a grant program through gitcoin so if you are doing something related to that please take a look at that that deadline is coming up okay moving on to the big news and you thought we were gonna talk about openai or cz no we're gonna talk about minting with warps because that's the real that's the real alpha we had a lot of big things happened yesterday and i this is a summary from varun big three today new nft drop invite invites 2 point o buy warps and actually there was another thing the channel mentions the channel tag that we're gonna go to and first i wanna just mention the mint was so fun this base pac man kind of vibe it was super cute and it was also jesse pollock's birthday so happy birthday jesse i thought this was a great way to celebrate your birthday are you giving us gifts like warps so that we could mint this lot of fun did you end up minting yesterday

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i did not mint yesterday 1st 1st nft i could mint with warps i decided not to

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why i'm fickle what are you thinking what's your warp thinking

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i'm fickle and it didn't speak to me and the pac man goes around and it doesn't actually eat away the pellets someone had posted that and once i saw that i could not see it

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that's funny

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i don't know if

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that's the reason it's funny

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don't get me wrong i'm obsessed obsessed with the warps obsessed i think the minting experience is phenomenal i love oh did we talk about that you can buy warps now

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we haven't even gotten to that we just we i i grabbed it in the summary but we haven't even talked about buying of warps so you can buy warps now new on warpedcast buy warps buy warps with crypto on base ethereum and polygon which i thought was interesting available on web via settings warps buy warps so that's why i have not i haven't bought them yet but i'm going to right after the show because i just want to experience like what that process is and like how many do you get for what amount and all of that i just haven't had a chance yet so i am gonna do that but the biggest thing is like i want is i wanna be able to give warps away like i wanna be able to like reward our audience with warps or things like that and we can't do that quite yet so but that that's what i'm waiting for i think that'd be cool

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it is yeah i mean the the whole warps it is the closest to this vision of being online and transacting seamlessly seamlessly that i've seen in ever

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especially seamlessly like i've been so impressed with like the the minting experience is so smooth like i've i've been shocked how how easy it is

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i'm gonna call it right here we will absolutely be able to gift and transfer warps

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i think so too i think it's just a matter of time so i'm hoping that we that we're able to do that and share some warps with you all because we're good there's gonna be a lot of warps out there okay now it's working now i see us now i see where we're left so there's gonna be a lot of warps out there and we wanna share them around like some people are getting dropped to like 80,000 they don't have anything to do with them so it's like what do you do so i and i'm spending them as fast as they come like i i minted a bunch of things yesterday like i minted 3 of them because i realized after the fact that it was going into i think our safe i have to double check because i had added that as one of my accounts so i think we have a i think i might have a pac man for you

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you would have to give it to your new one in so what you're saying is you minted but it's attached to we have a gm farcaster

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yes we have a gm farcaster safe we have a wallet and i had connected that as a second account to my farcaster account and i didn't realize when i minted it it will show you which account you are minting to if you have more than 1 and i just didn't notice and i was like where is it why didn't it show up in my wallet so i was about to like share like oh i found a bug and it wasn't a bug it's a user error which is what i was trying to like determine before i reported it and it was just me i had the wrong thing set so you can set which account you're sending it to which wallet so that's pretty cool if you have multiple accounts attached to your farcaster account amazing by accident amazing and now you don't even have to mint because i

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the universe yeah the universal lines

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and the universal lines now that i can see the chat hello chat and i was going to do a little giveaway today because i have an extra senior spire so i'm gonna look through the chat so if you are in the chat just make sure you comment because afterwards i am gonna do a little giveaway so and i'll pick somebody from the chat to give that away to okay moving on we still we have like so many we haven't even scratched the surface here so next up we also oh i loved it so for this buying of warps we're using coinbase commerce which is fairly new so dan had said more devs should consider using coinbase commerce to sell software stuff allows multi chain checkout and simplifies your accounting reminds me of how a lot of fast moving companies just use lightly branded stripe checkout pages for card payments including twitter so i thought that was really interesting so you know kind of a an experiment in this whole other you know i didn't know about coinbase commerce i'm not exactly sure what it's all about but i wanna go check that out as well because that might be something very useful okay and then there was announcement for warps that went out warps rewards going out today this was 2 days ago 10 k divided between hub runners runners and that's weekly 10 k divided between the top 200 casters that will be weekly as well 1 k to each of the channel leads which is a one time warps reward and 100 to everyone who has transacted on base so i got that and then i got like some random ones so i think it's probably one thing i couldn't tell and maybe you have the same answer is where is the 200 determined from like is it just the regular list or is there something special or is it i don't even know

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yeah what is what is top and there's probably different algorithms people are using because there's people have different people have created different stats pages so is is the work cast team using a different algorithm because i've seen that there's the farcaster user stats there's farcaster dot network there's a few different top

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lists

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i know ghostly has for in the in the outcast will show top so

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yeah i'm not sure

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not a 100% sure but as long as i stay in that top top 200 i'm

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i think i'm in there i mean i must be but i'm not sure so that is to you got a 1,000 for being a channel lead so that's exciting

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channel i got it and one thing i didn't notice until yesterday is okay so the way you click on settings to find out your warps you click on settings and then you can click on warps and it'll show you a little kind of transaction list if you click on the little transaction it'll open up and there'll be a comment that says why you got the warps oh that's a no say

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oh i did not so there

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were some for inviting like if you've invited people so i got 10 warps and it says the note when you actually click through will say here's a small thank you from warpedcast for inviting people to forecast her

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woah

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alright that's awesome i you know i had i had never clicked on them so now i see that that is super helpful so if you're not sure why you got warps click on the entry in that ledger that shows you warps in and out and it will tell you exactly what it's for like i can see a thank you from warpedcast for being an early base user things like that so that's pretty cool

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so there's also in the settings yeah there's also now an invite dashboard so if you go to your invites if you click on settings invite it'll tell you who you've invited whether they're active in the in the chat we've got links telling us he's invited 0 people not gonna make it i wanna tell you talking directly to to you don't feel bad because i've invited people and like almost no one's active i feel i'm like i have one active out of all the people i've invited

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so oh wow

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i really i i think it'd be better if i hadn't even tried

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so that was a yep that was a new so we have another new feature and it is we're getting additional invites so and we now have an invite sort of score score as well i'm ranked number 40 for invites woah i mean i have no i mean it's i haven't invited that many but i think i have i have a few that are just really active so i have like 1 2 3 4 5 like a handful that are really active so that's giving me warps someone come give professor

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a 100,000 warps for that

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no that's incorrect what would i even do with them i just keep minting more pac mans to random wallets that i'm not sure where they're going but this is pretty cool so i have a score of 66 i don't know what that means i have no idea what the score means i know i'm ranked 40 and that's all i know this is a big time

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it means you're winning

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it means i'm winning i'm winning warps and that's all that matters right you know what's really interesting is seeing the people get really excited about getting warps and people also getting fomo when they don't get warps and it's really interesting because even this early when there's very little that you can do with warps like hardly anything there's still this like fomo for it right we want it we still wanna we want these these these intangible things and i think that's just such a human nature thing but it really bodes well for crypto in my opinion

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yeah well i love i love what you said in the beginning of the show when you talked about how you wanna buy warps and and the reason you wanna buy them is because you wanna participate like just play and try it see you know what is that flow what's it like to buy something and that i just see that spirit everywhere all over forecasters

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are just full

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of people who you know it's not about these calculated decisions about how much are these warps gonna be worth but it's just

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not at all

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how do you learn and how do you just participate and i love it

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and i think it you know it it starts to add to this network state sort of thought process right when you have your own currency that's for your own network state right it's the thing that you can only get here you can only use here that makes it i don't know that takes it to the next level it feels like a little bit and to your point about trying things

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kagusha i hope i'm saying that right 33bits.xyz is live posted non on farcaster so you were talking about you know we we're more we have a lot of folks who are early adopters and willing to experiment and this was a new it's brand new z k prove your fid is less than 10,001 and cast on 33 bits feed without disclosing your account fast warrior and i built it with the intention to provoke open dialogues and explore how the fc community will use or abuse their privacy which i thought was really interesting and then she goes on in the first version sign in with warpcast and your fid remains private zk prove your eligibility and cast on the bot speed and verify that any cast from 33 bits was posted by an eligible author the code is open source and we're currently working on proper docs so you gave this a try yes

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i yeah and and if if you're not anonymity

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if you're not following 33 bits my new favorite follow so you'll follow 33 bits now and it will be a feed of anonymous casts from someone who has an fid of less than 10,000 do we and and yes and i've been reading about 0 knowledge proofs zk proofs and i saw it pop up and i said oh this what better way to try so i used my warps i signed i signed on with a new app how many warps was it 70 warps

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okay

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but i think it's a i think it's a variable right because it's based on gas fees so i think it's oh okay so i think it does change it can change alright are we assuming our audience knows what a zero knowledge proof is

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i am gonna assume that our audience knows what a zero knowledge proof is but if you'd like to explain you may go ahead i

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will i will

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let me rephrase i assume that those in the chat and people who normally watch us but for the random person who came across this in their spotify feed they may not know what a 0 knowledge proof is so go go to it adrienne

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alright so your hold keep me on screen

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at thanksgiving our family members at thanksgiving may not know what 0 knowledge proofs are

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side so it's a it's using cryptography to prove something without actually bringing this something with you so for instance in this scenario

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i'm going to sign a transaction with 33 bits they look and can independently verify that i have an fid of less than 10,000 through cryptography now and code and it's not just hey trust me it's been signed anything that comes out of 33 bits you can trust is verifiably proven that it is someone with an fid of less than 10,000 but they are not actually holding that information

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so in the world i mean there's a million use cases that you could do this but it really helps with anonymity

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and and what else

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what else i mean it it it well it automatically proving right proving humanity without having to show yourself so to speak so and it's also i mean and that's part of it too is trying to find ways to prevent bots from you know civil attacks and things like that too but also allow for anonymity so i have such a weird so we've had a lot of discussions in nouns about private voting and anonymous voting and things like that and then not and we also have had times that people created things similar to this where it was you had to be a nouner and then you could leave an anonymous comment so the only thing it would verify through the zk proof was that you hold this token and i have such a i i push back on anonymous posting because i feel like that has what really in the web 2 world has caused so much damage in my opinion is that an that that keyboard warrior that you don't know who i am so i can say anything i want all of that so to me like i prefer the transparency and openness of blockchain for that reason of like i sign this you know it's me i stand behind it but that said i understand that there are dangers in the world of you know being who you are and anonymity can be really helpful so i go back and forth on this but that's just my 2¢ on that

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yeah and we've got one more minute in gm barcaster so i think the z k yeah i mean i think the merits of anonymity could be debated elsewhere for sure but i think about whistleblower type use cases

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definitely and i think that's why i said i think there's a lot of use cases for it it's just one of those things that i always have concerns about okay so we only have 1 minute we didn't get to this the other day so i wanted to share this greg family event this weekend crypto inevitably came up in a few combos less negativity than last year and less investment focused than 2 years ago more real curiosity a good sign and then bennett asked any generational differences greg said old person in crypto is interesting but the environmental impact bothers me so i've stayed away and then he went on to explain proof of work and proof of stake and then a recent college grad was asking what it means to work in crypto beyond trading and then he was able to explain contracts and sort of more along the lines of blockchain and to me this was like the first indicator of like you know conversations to come like with your family so i i you know i'm just doing a very small thanksgiving so i won't be seeing the larger extended family so my family conversation around crypto will go like this my mother will say how is that bitcoin thing going and i go fine thanks for asking and then we leave it at that because it's just easier so are you expecting any conversations about what you've been up to adrian and how is that gonna go

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it's gonna be hard not to bring up it's you know if i if i was betting i'd say the topic comes up and people are curious

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yes definitely definitely so it'll be yeah it'll be interesting to see and i am gonna see some family in a couple weeks so that'll be a little different conversation but yeah i i expect that everyone's gonna be having some interesting conversations with family around openai as well as crypto and we look forward to seeing your casts about it and we'll be back on monday because we're at the end of our hour oh my end of our hour the end of our 21 minutes adrian anything i've missed that we should talk about oh i don't know if we talked about channel tagging i think i i blew past it we now can tag channels and i cannot find that here it is

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you teased it you teased it yeah

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i did not say it okay i think i teased it and didn't say it but we have been

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listen to the podcast won't yeah people who listen to the podcast won't hear it but the folks in the chat have been talking about how that works so maybe we bring that up maybe we bring it back up next week

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we'll bring it back up next week and it's and it's a way to tag the channel so that's a new feature and that's it we're out of time happy thanksgiving to our chatters and we'll be doing a little giveaway to one of you who are in our chat right after this and that's it happy thanksgiving adrienne happy thanksgiving alrighty bye everybody we will see you on monday bye bye