line and here we go gm farcaster it's monday january 22nd and you are here with adrienne and now to spraf for 21 minutes of farcaster news
to start your day good morning
hi good morning
i love your background it's fantastic
your background
yours is easier to see i should have
done it that way i didn't even think of that
so this little background is actually alpha so if you look it's kinda cut out around the penguin it is a sticker that i'll have available at eat denver it is one of my little pudgy penguins with noggles and we're gonna have it be our little denver our denver mascot so eat denver getting very excited for that making plans i'm still working on breakfast karaoke but i think i've got it
it's gonna
happen it's gonna happen i think i've got it figured out honestly i found a place to the whole thing so jump in the gm farcaster channel if you're not already in there if you're going to eat denver i'm gonna post something later today and just you know shout us out let us know so we make sure to keep you posted on our plans so excited so excited and you may come we don't know if she's coming yet but she might
so what was it was it 2 weeks ago i was at 0% i went to that 5% 10%
where are we
at now over i think oh no we're at we're at 95% are
we there
ah we're already there
exciting oh because the other part we forgot to tell you guys this so we are officially have our media passes we are officially media we are officially press we're gonna be there like we're gonna be able to do all the press things and we're gonna have 2 hours reserved in the podcast area where we're hoping to do a bunch of interviews with anyone who's building something on farcaster if you're gonna be at eatdenver come talk to us i'm gonna have like a schedule out there probably in a couple weeks to like really nail that down and get people lined up so you can come chat with us and we'll do some live streaming from eath denver so really excited about all that so that's what we wanted to shout out right at the top here today and i can't believe we're making this happen i can't believe you're coming
it's it's so exciting and obviously i mean look we can't get official press passes and and me skip it so i'm
so this has been a very i've i've really i've really done a good job of getting her here i'm like well i'm just gonna put your name on this purple cage in for a press pass
very slight
can't come it's fine i'm just gonna book this hotel with 2 bedrooms
just in case so it's
it's worked out pretty good so very exciting
you're very manipulative if we you're very smart if we can call a spade a spade okay but it works because it works our goals are aligned so i'm happy to be there it works for anyone who's not for anyone who's not met professor in person you have to make a point to come find her at eat denver because you cannot meet her without her giving you a gift
and i was
gonna say and
i will definitely have these absolutely these i will have stickers i will have pins by the way if you are a holder of any of our podcasts if you are one of our supporters i will have hopefully a little cute little like pin from wizard pins too of this little penguin so that'll be waiting for you yes there will be presents i do tend to do that she will have to do really funny because gifts are not my love language so don't try it the other way around doesn't really work on me
so funny enough but i
i kinda wanna ask what your love language is but
it's words of affirmation and physical touch so there you go but don't
hug
me i don't know yet don't hug me if i don't know yet it's only for people i know anyway okay we gotta move on to outcasters this week which was awesome and a few things they did do for ghost links did for a snapshot 0 28 was a small challenge i will give 200 warps to the first person who correctly guesses the guest curator for this week the winner will be announced right after we publish later this evening i was not allowed to guess because i was in a group chat about this but also let's talk about the active users because i'm back on the list i don't know if that's a good or bad thing and i have to agree with tim dob on that i'm not he likes to call it the the list of people who spend way too much time online that's fine i'm good with that and the actual outcast is no
is a we're out of all i have to professor i have
to correct you it's tim daub does not say
this is not the peep list of people
who spend too much time online
but he says
this is the list of people with mental health problems
that's right that's right sorry that's right
it's a little hard there
also true also true also true i don't disagree sir i'm happy to be on the list with all you others who are crazy like me so outkaster this week was amazing it was curated by david tifang of the park who i adore the park so it was amazing also just incredible playlist he put together a playlist so if you don't know the park they're a musical group collective who do fridays at the park happy friday and they get together they make some food and they play some music they record it and then they drop it as an nft and it's a pretty amazing experience so he created a playlist to go to listen to while you look through outcasters and i highly recommend doing it that way it was pretty very cool really enjoyed this curation so great job david tifang go give a look and take a listen you haven't had a chance to do to look at it yet right
i've not had a chance i had a busy sunday evening so out has set the music
it's really good it's a good way to listen to it it's a good way to look at it
so i will do that
and i love the suggestion that was to wufi's suggestion and it just timed out really well with the fact that you know david was doing this particular week and he's a musician so having a playlist while you take a look at our casters great plan loved it so give it a
and david david is a national treasure so he's a gem of a human being
great
so i'm super excited to see what he curated this week
and and go collect it you can go collect the image the cover image and it's pretty amazing we've got a few other pieces of news we had an image upload problem investigating image uploads not working on warpcast this is from dwr for now you'll have to describe the visual you want to include and let me tell you that got funny i liked cassie's please scream inside your heart dot jpeg it got pretty funny i'll just say so it didn't last very long but literally all of us posting casting can anyone else upload images and i was trying to upload this particular image at the time
that's a matter of fact
so it was driving me crazy because i wanted to share it and i couldn't i actually wanted to share it in a group cast which means i had to in a group chat so i had to cast it somewhere so i could put the link in the group chat and i couldn't do any of that and it was making me nuts but anyway it's back we don't know
what's wrong it's fixed
it's fixed
and we don't know yeah you don't know what you've got till it's gone take away images and we panicked it wasn't it wasn't pretty
don't like don't like it when you take things away from us also i loved this post from dan instead of lobbying work cast to add a feature people i'm guessing video people should be using clients like supercast and consider paying way faster to get a feature prioritized at this point and good for farcaster ecosystem more broadly warpcast is not going to be max configurable anytime soon and i liked this other party talked about personally i love apps with settings i want as many knobs and toggles to customize my experience the has harsh reality is we have to make war cast even simpler smarter defaults that through revealed preference drive dau growth and retention otherwise the protocol ends up as a science experiment which i thought was interesting and there was another cast where dan had mentioned that he wants all these settings and toggles and everything and varun pulls him back from that and i and i love their i love hearing about their partnership and their cofounder experience because that sort of balancing of each other which i think is very interesting and i see similarities since we tend to be a little different and in a good ways in all the
are they mind reader are they also mind readers
yes they might be
she she literally reads my mind it's really fun i'm like you know i need we need these stats and then like 2 seconds later they appear casted i'm like oh thanks perfect thank you so yeah it works out well and speaking of rune the sign in with farcaster fip has been updated with the latest changes last call for feedback so sign in with farcaster i think that's via is part of a larger scope of being able to build this out in a lot of different ways so for the developers that's some news for you what were you gonna say did i cut you off there
well on on the who's in the chat they wanna know who who's dwr and who's v
oh dwr being dan
no no no of the 2 of us if we are if we are similar no
why are you people they should know who they are
actually but maybe somebody
i don't know i think i'm more dan and you're more vee but i'm not sure i think we might be a mix of both
well that's what the chat agrees i think
yeah i don't think we're 1 or the other but i think if we have if i had to pick probably probably that way she's she's she's back there pulling me back
a little bit in the
good way like of like really or saying really that that arch i don't think so by the way i think that's still i didn't pull that cast but there was one about if dan created the world and it was all his original logo which was really funny
that was on friday i meant to do that as my background it was one of the funniest casts i've seen in
a long time so i'm sorry
we didn't bring that up it was
very funny in other news well this happened i love this from kunal i think it is a post from vitalik on twitter where somebody is talking about vitalik buterin has to append every reply with sorry for reshowing because immediately afterwards a deluge of sycophants crypto bots and followers rains down on the post with tickers memes and expressions of praise and all the op can see is eth and sol for 3 days and then vitalik responded this is part of why i do most of my tweeting on farcaster these days sorry for ray showing i mean you gotta love that vitalik has a sense of humor i'm played right into it but also then somebody asked him about didn't you mean casting and he said no i meant tweeting on fun on farcaster well okay
yes
so vitalik we love that you spend more time on farcaster please continue that that makes us all very happy and you can also have like an actual conversation with him so you know it's kind of kind of fun and i'd say that about lots of people who hang out over here coop
oh which springs up last week and i don't think we i we may or may not have pulled it but y b yes got an essay about we i mean we pulled it on friday it was in the link it was in the
show links but we did not get to it and it was
why farcaster and you talked about the arbitrage if you're an early user arbitrage mhmm and you have the ability to you know make an impact and and but also kind of like talk to and have like conversations with call them
celebs gigabrains gigabrains right the crypto celebs the gigabrains and that was kind of along the lines of what coop said fc is the new y c and his next tweet was similar and said i don't understand a kinda wild that more people aren't taking advantage of the unparalleled upside of being early to farcaster extremely active on chain social network with bright founders next gen builders and early signs of real alpha it's the best way to get in front of crypto natives and build a brand for the next bull market and i think you know somebody i i had mentioned recently that yeah i'm spending more time over on farcaster i'm building things over there it's why i'm building is because of that reason but i do think that most people who are here do get it and that's the reason they they are building here and they are spending more time here and all of those things so yb's essay was beautiful loved it he's also been minting a lot of our episodes thank you we appreciate you and and he shouts it out he'll talk about what he meant it that week so we appreciate you yb i did think that was great but what do you think that farcaster is the new y combinator that's my question to you oh
no i mean come on no of course not
why why is
it not but but well by now you know my philosophy on life of of anti scarcity so the idea of okay okay and and also and i really like the idea of like can we make forecaster something net new so let's not try to repeat something that already has been done and existed can there be multiple y combinators i mean what does that even mean so i just i wanna look forward i'm here because you know i believe in the philosophies and and creation so i do think it is so i'm gonna say but i
think it is with all of your caveats so i think it is but in a new way and what i mean by that i think it's an incubator i don't think it's a social media platform like definitely none of those words sense put together when you're talking about farcaster social network makes sense definitely but to me it feels also like more than that and it feels like an incubator so if you think about an incubator for tech startups or anywhere like the big you know the things that you get from that are you get an opportunity to share your ideas and get feedback on it in a timely fashion from people who really know what the heck they're doing you might find a co founder in an incubator i'm just saying you know all of those the co working the feedback the seniors aspects of it all of that to me feel very the only thing that's missing is funding and you even have some of that you even have some of that you have purple but you also have people who've met investors on farcaster for what they're doing so i and you have linda offering you know $50 session for feedback who is a you know vc fund person you know it's it's incredible so all of that to me just feels like very incubator ish and not really just a social network so that's my yeah
well i mean obviously i'd agree and i just it's it's a scene so it's it's scene and therefore you can you you can incubate it's you know you get a lot of the zenius activity so
and that to me is an incubator right like a seniors is another word really a different better cool way of saying incubator in my mind but you know i think it remains to be seen what happens with a lot of these projects but i feel like that to me is where we're where it feels like at least at this moment and which makes it really
and i think yeah and i think when we're trying to figure out like why aren't more people taking advantage of this why right because we're i keep pinching myself as an early like this it just feels like such a unique special place i'm so grateful it feels like woah why don't more people do this and it goes back i think to our the theme we bring up a lot about missionaries versus mercenaries
yes yeah
and
we've been thinking a lot about that lately too yep
so the the the people we connect with here we're missionaries we're here for for a reason more than you know kind of capturing someone else's value yeah
totally and i've been thinking about that a lot missionaries versus mercenaries and i hadn't thought about it in that g m missionaries love it it's you know it's it's something i hadn't thought about before but it's something i think about a lot now since dan said that and then it like has sparked other conversations around that and you can really see it within this ecosystem you can see the people who are they're here building on farcaster because they love it and then like if there's an upside great and i see that a lot even in the degen channel when you see you know what's happening there it's really different than what you see when a meme coin drops on twitter it's huge huge difference so there's like there's just a very different vibe and i think it's i think that's you know what we what we need here so it's really interesting
by the way the chat the chat is very very active day hopping i can't
keep up with it you guys are it's awesome
on the yc comment it's like at this point i think it's also there's yc early yc and then there's kind of late stage yc and yc today is as lynk says it's basically it's like here's the playbook for building a vc backed company right exactly yeah so maybe we're maybe early stage of like
we might be yc 20 years ago
yeah
yeah yeah and i think that's i think that's a good good point a really good point what it is today is not what it used to be for sure few more things that we want to shout out before because i'm looking at the time going god i love this from i speak nerd i did some channel analysis on the farcaster aristocracy so you don't have to ted by ted thoughtful discussions and variety of topics cameron by cameron adhd mass of no context means and good founder advice steve by sdv e steve steve steve steve steve steve steve steve and then it's pretty accurate but i did think that was funny jam friends had an ama with cassie about the hunger games and i do wanna talk about the hunger games real quick before we wrap and then dan talked about cassie's hunger games and group chat idea and some other ideas about games and different ways to use group chats for gaming and i did want to just talk about the hunger games we haven't had a real chance to talk about it since it ended so i was in the 2nd round of the hunger games i know lynx was in the first one dewofi might have been in both d'woofie was wasn't he the winner he was no vk was the winner vk was the winner but they were the last 2 standing and there was a psyops that went down i saw it coming i just couldn't beat it so i ended up in the last 4 at the end of the second one so just to tell you what this was group chat you start with 64 people plus the person running the game which is cassie and then half go each time each vote and it was a 24 hours to vote so it was interesting also listening to her compare the first group and the second group and how they were different and a lot of that might have had to do with time zones because we had more spread out and it got really interesting to figure out how people were voting and who you should vote for and what's a good strategy and my strategy in the last couple rounds was vote early and then be really quiet and hope that people forgot i was there so i don't know if it worked but i made it till you know 3rd place so i'll take it but it was it was a lot of fun and the thing that surprised me is that i got to know some people that i either didn't know at all or that i knew from other places and didn't realize they were a broadcaster and that was that was really fun so the activity itself was it had many benefits and it was a lot of fun so if she does this again i definitely recommend jumping in it was a lot of fun so
amazing
and i just i also am a big fan of survivor so it was very survivor esque there was a lot of that same kind of gameplay we are at the end of our time chat you have been awesome i have to go back and like look through everything cause i missed a lot but you guys have been just holding it down today amazing speaking up i want to start like giving away some things to our chat and i'm going to so i'm gonna randomly take everybody who's in the chat right now if you have said anything i'm gonna throw you into a little random generator and one of you is going to win i think that the park i have i have one of the recent park drops from yellow collectives drop and i am going to send that to one of you so we shall see and anything else before we wrap we had a bunch of other stuff there'll be a bunch of other links in our show notes that we did not get to we do have a different schedule this week so i wanna make sure you all know tomorrow randomly select links randomly tell links yes so we're going to be on at 9:30 am est tomorrow and then friday is 11:30 am est with johnny mac nonlinear and did i miss anything adrienne
yes
what
yes you did miss something first of all i'm very sad so i'm traveling this week which is why we're on tuesday not wednesday we'll cast about it because everyone will forget and i'm unfortunately not able to make the friday with nonlinear which i'm so sad about i forgot
something big that they're they're shouting out in the chat
well well i didn't episode
this is our
oh my god we totally forgot
well i was the other
thing for
thank you
chats for
reminding us
oh my god happy 50th john yeah happy 50th this is our 50th episode
we made it to 50 episodes like this is mind blowing especially if you were here for episodes like 1 2 and 3 especially 3
we're still having technical issues at 50 let's be honest we're not but we're
not quite there we're still
doing the shitty version let's be honest
hi that's okay because we're doing it consistently
so happy 50 adrianne i'm so excited we made it and we're going to try and hit 100 while we're at farcon we might have to do a few things to get there because it's gonna be really close
so you did the math
yeah i did the math and it would be like may 15th so we're gonna have to like do a couple extra episodes in april and we'll get there so we might have some extra special episodes thrown in here and there to make sure we can hit 100 of them where it park on but anyway happy 50 this is amazing we made it thank you chat for reminding us because we totally forgot and now we get a rocket ship to a 100 exactly
wow i mean the other thing i was gonna mention which now just sounds super lame is since friday i claimed my dgen yes so it's
just we are gonna talk more about that tomorrow and we're trying to maybe get a special guest on so we'll see if we can make that happen but we will we will talk a lot of let's talk about djn tomorrow because there's been a lot going on there and it's just a really interesting it's very different from any other meme coin i've ever seen i'm also in the djndao group chat it is different from every other group chat that i'm in it's like really kind of amazing so tomorrow we'll talk more about adrianne's journey to d jenning
it's been
it's been fun and that is
you're seeing me transform right in front of your eyes
it's been amazing it's been absolutely amazing the things
that have happened we do have to give out a shout out to our sponsors really quick monkey dealings type of our john tufan yes to crypto and then our clps wake lens post a farciver which will be next week and justin this week and we did a little blurb in our recap all about quiduly and we will talk more about that later this week and that is it for us adrian have a lovely monday and we'll see you tomorrow tomorrow not wednesday tomorrow so we'll be back tomorrow and we're gonna talk about all things degen so we will we'll we'll see you then bye bye everybody
bye everyone