kenny 🎩

"we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social" as someone who still believes social crypto, this hurts Zora was not a social app, it was a gambling app with a social layer tacked on one experiment is not enough to dismiss the category https://x.com/jessepollak/status/2077427261586997745

gm and Happy 250th 4th of July! 🇺🇸 @myk and I have selected our July 3rd winner... congrats @terricola.eth! 🏆 the sheet amount of Farcaster swag + aggressive bite + chart pumping was an elite combo 📸

gm I just boosted @coolhat's bounty with $25 from our CEF @farcaster activation grant 💜 record a video showing where you Farcaster from for a chance to win! "Visit a famous landmark, iconic location, local favorite, or unique spot in your city and record a short video. In your video: 🎥 Say: "This is for Farcaster." 🌎 Tell us where you are. ❤️ Share why that place is meaningful, interesting, or special to you." https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/14

another @farcaster CEF grant boost is live 🚀 this time we're teaming up with @1dolinski and @viniapp! build and publish a mini app using ViniApp that helps people discover / learn Farcaster lore claims open till June 30th 🗓️ best app wins 🏆 https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1250 https://www.viniapp.xyz/

new bounty inspired by @sgniwder's DAU post yesterday and boosted via our @farcaster CEF activation grant we want to know the real story behind Farcaster's current user numbers in the broader context of the crypto industry add funds on mainnet to support the mission 🤝 https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/10

gm there's a new 3 ETH (~$5,400) bounty from Encrypt the Mempool for substantive feedback on the encrypted mempool proposals (EIP-8105 & EIP-8184) if you've been following @ethereum mempool research, now's the time to dive in and add your perspective! https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/9

another $25 @farcaster CEF activation boost is live 📈 this one's simple, play @hamedns' Degen Fishing game for your chance to win! 🎣 🎩 claims open till June 20th, one lucky winner takes the grand prize 💰 https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1207 https://degen-fishing.vercel.app/aquarium/434268

our first $25 is now deployed 🚀 we just boosted @zaal's ZABAL GAMEZ AD bounty 💰 $50 for the best ad that will become pinned promo across all available marketing channels sign up with Farcaster and play the game starting June 1st via: https://zabalgamez.com/ 🕹️ https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1180

part of poidh's CEF grant is a $500 Activation Grant meant to "spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives" to feed those funds back into the ecosystem, I'll be boosting 2️⃣0️⃣ poidh bounties related to Farcaster projects! here's how this will work: - if you're running a Farcaster project, community, or event that could benefit from a poidh bounty, this is for YOU - DM me the bounty you want to create + how it helps the Farcaster ecosystem - once approved, create the bounty and I’ll add $25 in ETH/DEGEN to the pot - I’ll also help promote the bounty to drive submissions, participation, and attention you’ll run the bounty yourself and choose winners however you’d like, with an extra boost made possible by the @clanker CEF, @farcaster, and @gmfarcaster teams 💜 limit is 1️⃣ bounty per project/person so we can support as many different ideas as possible funds will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and, once everything is allocated, I’ll publish a full write-up covering what was supported + accomplished please note: I’m specifically looking for people with existing projects and a history of Farcaster-related activity (this is not a general fund for anyone who wants to run a bounty) ty again to everyone who made this grant possible! we can't wait to help fund some quality activations 📸

part of poidh's CEF grant is a $500 Activation Grant meant to "spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives" to feed those funds back into the ecosystem, I'll be boosting 2️⃣0️⃣ poidh bounties related to Farcaster projects! here's how this will work: - if you're running a Farcaster project, community, or event that could benefit from a poidh bounty, this is for YOU - DM me the bounty you want to create + how it helps the Farcaster ecosystem - once approved, create the bounty and I’ll add $25 in ETH/DEGEN to the pot - I’ll also help promote the bounty to drive submissions, participation, and attention you’ll run the bounty yourself and choose winners however you’d like, with an extra boost made possible by the @clanker CEF, @farcaster, and @gmfarcaster teams 💜 limit is 1️⃣ bounty per project/person so we can support as many different ideas as possible funds will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and, once everything is allocated, I’ll publish a full write-up covering what was supported + accomplished please note: I’m specifically looking for people with existing projects and a history of Farcaster-related activity (this is not a general fund for anyone who wants to run a bounty) ty again to everyone who made this grant possible! we can't wait to help fund some quality activations 📸

bounty value go 🆙 $50 on the line for whoever captures the best /gmfarcaster clip this week! https://poidh.xyz/arbitrum/bounty/303

new bounty to support @farcaster culture 💜 this week's best GM Farcaster clip wins! cc @adrienne @nounishprof https://poidh.xyz/arbitrum/bounty/303

such a fun bounty, much appreciation to @azflin for running this on poidh! and we now have two new members of the poidh score top 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ @azflin moves to 89, passing @mariel @smokingfrog.eth and @bigbroc and @pixahead.eth is now ranked 83, passing @etonbase.eth and @pascaline 🕹️

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more dog pics. https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1099

let's see what Claude has to say: "This is a fun product question. At 1,000 DAU, I'd actually lean toward the following feed with reply bumping — and not just because of cost. Recommendation algorithms need data density to work well. With 1,000 DAU, you don't have enough signal yet. Users have sparse interaction histories, the content graph is thin, and cold-start problems will hit constantly (new users, new posters, niche topics). A weak algo feed feels worse than no algo at all — it recommends stuff that's almost-right but slightly off, which erodes trust faster than just showing you what you asked for. You'd also need to build, tune, and maintain it. That's real engineering time you probably can't afford. The following feed actually has real advantages here At 1,000 DAU, your users likely know each other, or at least know of each other. That's a community, not an audience. A following feed leans into that — it rewards users for being deliberate about who they follow, and it makes the social graph feel meaningful. People can actually curate their experience. Reply bumping is genuinely clever for your use case too. On a text-heavy, discussion-oriented platform, a reply buried five levels deep might be the most interesting thing happening. Surfacing it keeps conversations alive and rewards engaged posters, not just popular ones. It also naturally combats the "ghost town" feeling when top-level post volume is low. The honest tradeoff The following feed does have a real weakness: it puts the burden of curation on the user. If someone follows poorly (too few people, bad choices), their feed dies. You'd want to invest in good onboarding — suggesting follows, making the social graph easy to navigate — to compensate. My take Do the following feed now. It's cheaper, more honest at your scale, and actually fits a scrappy community-building phase better than algo does. Revisit the algo question when you're at 50k–100k DAU and have enough behavioral data to make it sing. At that point you'll also have the revenue to justify the engineering. The dirty secret is that most small platforms that add algo feeds early do it for optics — it sounds sophisticated. In practice it usually just makes the product worse until you hit real scale."

poidh is not shutting down its infrastructure nor ceasing operations

this is like if Racer came back and launched a new blockchain and it was actually good

word of the day bounty has been secured by @ethoughts! 🏆 https://poidh.xyz/arbitrum/bounty/226

winner @iamrav3n! 🏆 cc @adrienne

the natural deterrent to death markets is that no one reputable wants to be the oracle for death markets

gm poidh was accepted into the Funding the Commons Frontier Fund competition! 🥳 for the next 24 hours, every contribution is matched 4× (up to $8,888) if you want to support bounties for public goods, please consider contributing! https://artizen.fund/index/mf/funding-the-commons-frontier-fund?season=6

pics taken today from around the world minted onchain incentivized by an AI agent

this mfer @mleejr really ride or die

updating my 6000-word "On The Benefits of Reply Bumping" document to send to @rish

"hey Grok what was the coolest thing accomplished by a DAO in the last year"

extremely tough day for everyone on twitter who was quoting Vitalik and telling him that decentralization doesn't matter any more

gm use following feeds so you aren't subjected to the whims of whatever Head of Slop runs the algo feed on your social media of choice

I still can't believe how lucky I am to be a part of a community of people who are intelligent enough to take a cursory glance at a smart contract exploit and go "oh there are other problems here let me save $2500 really quick" everyone already knows how great @horsefacts.eth is but I'll say it anyways, we are blessed to hang out on the same website as him

as much as we love a good glaze video a classic donut pic is still celebrated as well, ty @habilisl!

Jacek says we're running it back so we're running it back 2025 DEGEN Halloween Costume Contest is live! 🎩☠️👹👻🎃🕷️🧟‍♂️ https://poidh.xyz/degen/bounty/1189

had a lot of fun writing this one DEGEN, @thehaberdashery, and the story of @davebachinsky's kickflip world record 🎩 https://paragraph.com/@poidh/degen-haberdashery-dave-bachinsky-kickflip-world-record

gm everybody a Farcaster and a DEGEN has broken the kickflip world record lfggggg @davebachinsky! 🥳🥳🥳🎩 🎩 🎩 @jacek get in here sir https://poidh.xyz/degen/bounty/1167

paying my weekly rewards forward with $80 in bounties claimable by @nounishprof's students these are "open" bounties, so if anyone wants to help incentivize students exploring onchain, just click the "add funds" button bounties include: guerilla Ethereum marketing 🔊 take a trip to the beach ⛱️ take an egg to the library 📚 TikTok tour of FGCU 🏛️ find Edgardo Carmona 🧑‍🎨 get a selfie with Prof 🤳 visit Alico Arena 🏟️ https://poidh.xyz/a/fgcu

"powered by technology"

Eric got salty and made a call lol

I prefer politicians that don't default to the Kubrick Stare for their portraits

🎄 CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH DEGEN 🎄 we're running the biggest onchain gift drive of all time, and it's happening on Degen Chain 🎅🎩 the rules: 👉 take a pic while dropping off a present at a gift drive 👉 post the pic on social media and share the name of the gift drive, the organization it is being run by, and what you donated as a gift 👉 upload the same pic via https://poidh.xyz/degen/bounty/852 + include a link to your social media post the initial prize is 1️⃣5️⃣5️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ DEGEN (~$290) but this is an OPEN bounty so anyone can add more funds 🤝 entries are allowed through 12/25, and a single grand prize winner will be announced before 12/31 🏆 the poidh and DEGEN teams will judge entries based on their adherence to contest guidelines, pic quality, and holiday spirit 🧑‍⚖️ all legitimate claims will also receive an airdropped commemorative NFT 🪂 Happy Holidays, DEGENs! thank you for spreading cheer this holiday season 💙🎁🎄☃️❆

I think the reason for this absolute hatred of crypto is that the predominant modern leftist mindset depends on a belief in governance making everything better how to fix healthcare? more government involvement how to fix income inequality? more government involvement crypto is an oil and water situation when it comes to this mindset one of the most OBVIOUS governmental duties is issuing currency crypto being legitimate would mean that this, a basic core use case of governments, is outperformed by the free market it's easier to block out the possibility of this being true than to adjust your fundamental worldviews

good UX tbh

I can be critical of Warpcast so here's a thing they do great I think the automated spam stuff is fantastic it's very rare that I get notifications these days from accounts interacting with my stuff that are obvious bots hidden replies tend to be 95% accurate and only populated by AI spam too

huge new bounty collab between poidh and @bigdegenenergy.eth just went live 💥 we're giving away 🔟 NFT streaming tickets to the new Ethereum movie + a $100 grand prize in ETH 🏆 to enter, simply upload a claim explaining why you appreciate @vitalik.eth 💙 contest winners will be chosen Monday, September 23rd 🗓️ submit claims via 👇 https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/175