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I like that @zora considers now each NFT a new post. It reminds me the "NFT Blog" I started in 2021. I wish I hadn't stoped :-( https://opensea.io/collection/the-nft-blog?search[sortBy]=CREATED_DATE

Bitwise CIO: 'It’s cool to hate Ethereum right now. I bet this ends up looking silly.' https://www.theblock.co/post/317076/ethereum-contrarian-bet-bitwise-cio

ENS trading felt dead for quite some time, but I'm starting to see some movement. Something is brewing.

Let me get this right: 1. Everyone complains that the algorithm is not promoting their content. 2. No one is complaining that they can't find good content on Farcaster, which means the algorithm works well. I hope you combine 1+2.

ENS stories: yarrow.eth Yarrow is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It's scientific name is Achillea millefolium. It has been used since ancient times to heal wounds and stop bleeding, and in the sixteenth century the crushed leaves were used to stop nosebleeds. Actually, the genus name "Achillea" is derived from mythical Greek character Achilles, who reportedly carried it with his army to treat battle wounds. The specific epithet "millefolium" comes from the featherlike leaves which are minutely divided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achillea_millefolium

ENS stories: ballboy.eth Ball boys (and ball girls) retrieve and supply balls for players or officials in sports such as football, American football, cricket, tennis, baseball and basketball. Though non-essential, their activities help to speed up play by reducing the amount of inactive time. But there have been some moments of fame for ball boys. Like 15-year-old Callum Hynes, who propelled Tottenham's crucial equaliser against Olympiakos in a Champions League match in 2019 -and got the recognition he deserved by Jose Mourinho!

ENS is everywhere. Now on PayPal and Venmo.

ENS stories: libretto.eth > The earliest operas, beginning in 1597 with Ottavio Rinuccini’s Dafne, set to music by Jacopo Peri, were court entertainments, and as a commemoration the words were printed in a small book, or “libretto.” > [today] it is text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre. It is also used, less commonly, for a musical work not intended for the stage. A libretto may be in verse or in prose; it may be specially designed for a particular composer, or it may provide raw material for several; it may be wholly original or an adaptation of an existing play or novel. From: https://www.britannica.com/art/libretto Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation and musical notation for one of the arias (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libretto)

ENS stories: misirlou.eth The song "Misirlou" is at least 100 years old. It's deeply Eastern Mediterranean in a mysterious way ,combining sounds and themes with deep cultural roots in the region. At the same time, Misirlou has been able to transcend to many and diverse cultures. From https://thegreekonlineschool.com/news/how-does-greek-song-misirlou-connect-pulp-fiction/ > The oldest version probably dates back to 1927 when the song was performed by Tetos Demetriades. > Misirlou became very popular in Western culture through Dick Dale’s American surf rock version in 1962. Afterwards several version have been recorded while in 1994 Quentin Tarantino reused Dick Dale’s version in his film Pulp Fiction. Then it has been also used in Black Eyed Peas song “Pump it” (2006) and in the episode”The Jet Set” (2008) of the American series Mad Men.

If everyone thinks you're shitcasting, it's not shitcasting. 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩

Is there a raffle frame? Here's what I would like to do: 1. Announce that I'm giving out an ENS domain. 2. Set the raffle duration. 3. Allow users to join (maybe after following me? would be nice), through the frame. Just a simple "join". 4. On the predefined date, the raffle ends and the frame shows the winner (random). If there's something already out there, that I can use, please let me know!

ENS stories: socialproof.eth Social proof is a psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others in choosing how to behave in a given situation. The term was coined by Robert Cialdini in his 1984 book "Influence: Science and Practice". It maintains that people are especially likely to perform certain actions if they can relate to the people who performed the same actions before them. According to Cialdini, the six principles of persuasion are: 1. reciprocity 2. commitment/consistency 3. authority 4. liking 5. scarcity 6. social proof. Marketing strategies often depend on social proof.

ENS stories: concertina.eth Concertina is a musical instrument that resembles accordion. It was developed independently in both England and Germany. The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, while Carl Friedrich Uhlig introduced the German version five years later, in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional music of Ireland, England, and South Africa, and for tango and polka music. It has historically been a favorite instrument among people who travel often (due to its small and compact size), leading it to be a common instrument among soldiers, sailors, and cowboys. One was even brought aboard Robert Peary's 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented nearly 100 years after the heyday of piracy in North America. Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOyuuAR9O-k Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina

The story behind bombjack.eth. Copying from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_Jack > Bomb Jack is a platform game published (1984) by Tehkan for arcades and later ported to home systems. The game was a commercial success for arcades and home computers. It was followed by several sequels: the console and computer game Mighty Bomb Jack, the arcade game Bomb Jack Twin, and Bomb Jack II which was licensed for home computers only.

The story behind toeleven.eth. Copying from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven > "Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten (video attached). > In 2002, the phrase entered the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with the definition "up to maximum volume".

You keep whining, because "it's hard for new users to get followers". I have 90 followers. Did you write something more interesting than I did? I doubt it. My FID is 2445. Where you here before me? Most probably not. So, why do you think the universe owes you more followers? Do you really think that what you cast regularly, is so great that it deserves thousands of followers? Well, share it here, is it really so good that the world is missing out? No? I thought so.

Hey @dwr, @v. Am I in some kind of spam list?

Remember when SBF was testifying in the Senate, and was advocating for crypto, but now we know we was trying to pass regulation that would make DeFi centralized? I'm afraid Trump may turn out to be the worst thing that happened to crypto in the US.

During the 2021 bull run, and the boom of ENS domain prices in 2022, many blamed "domain squatters", for raising prices unreasonably. "They register domains they don't need", they said. I always supported that domain traders are good for the ecosystem. They took a risk, when almost no one else believed in ENS (or even knew about it). Yes, *you* think everyone is interested in .eth names, but the reality is only a few thousand people in the world do. Two years later: - .eth domain prices are down more than 90% - hundreds of domains expire every day, and no one renews them. - yet, some users are still bullish and keep renewing thousands of domains Domain traders took (and keep taking) the risk of investing in an asset that did not have sufficient demand yet, and so far most of them are deep in the red. But they had a positive contribution to the ecosystem: The ENS DAO holds $130M in it's reserves, it wouldn't if it wasn't for them.

Here are some of my domains (for sale) Do you think this is a good, non-intrusive way to showcase them? Check out the whole collection on Vision. (Open to negotiate prices, to some extent) https://vision.io/profile/0x08e17c7912e48ac5ec61399a05a362ad64963db8