I’m agreeing with the sentiment, but a fully private CBDC is not a CBDC anymore, the whole point of CBDC is to have control, which you’ll lose with a fully private coin.
The problem is not the technology, but governments around the world will not accept it, especially as a large-scale way of transferring value.
It seems in the end reserve currencies are always abused, creating one that is uncontrolable and unabusable seems like a great thought experiment, but we’re very far from that, and no one will cede monetary control, even if, in theory, that will help everyone.
If a government or even the world wants to create a digital private cash system, I’m fully onboard with that. It will simplify things a lot.
And if governments believe that will produce a lot of tax evasion, the simplest system is just to tax assets, which can’t be hidden. For me, it makes much more sense to tax assets and wealth, as it is much simpler than taxing income, which, if it is not used, is just a number with no effect.
It doesn’t set any precedent, because it was a settlement. Only rulings are supposed to set precedents.
As you say, in fact, the judge said that training on copyrighted material is fair use, but objected to illegally downloading books from piracy websites.
Anthropic just abandoned the legal fight and calculated that paying 3k per book to 500k authors is easier and better PR.
Meta did the same actions, but is still fighting their case.
The last legal claim they made is that even if you acquire copyrighted material using torrents, it’s not illegal if you don’t seed.
To be honest, I don’t want copyright holders to win any case because my thesis is that IP protections are hurting society, and more people would benefit if IP protections were thoroughly reduced, for example, to a maximum of 1-2 years. There are ample studies that indicate IP only facilitates wealth concentration.
But if Meta is allowed to pirate, so should everyone else.
You did hit the contentious point, the MM team promised something that it can't do. I just wish they dropped the decentralized label because, in my opinion, it's false advertising.
After 5 years, there’s practically only one team under one company that shapes the protocol, and every decision. This reality does not meet the standard of decentralization for many ppl, the fact that Snapchain is open-source does not change the fact that MM practically has almost full control over everything.
What’s the timeline for control not to rest with a single organization? 20 years... or maybe even never...
I agree with people who say many users don’t care about decentralization, and MM team said that many, many times, so by their own logic, the label does not have much marketing value, and probably is best for everyone to be dropped, because I have seen this saga of users crying that Farcaster is centralized and dwr disagreeng that it’s becoming one of the main theme of Farcaster.
To be fair I would have liked Farcaster to be successful as a text based social protocol maintained by a large group of non affiliated devs and a network with nodes maintained by a large number of orgs.
Maybe is just me but Farcaster succeeding as an app launcher or wallet is beyond the pale.
The only user that interests me is the one that seeks, uses and values a decentralized social protocol.
Just looks like part of standardization.
Every text-form social network will look 95/100 the same. I was wondering when this moment would come, I mean, it could have been implemented even 2 years ago.
Probably, it was planned a few weeks ago since the wallet part already got darker sooner. I’ve seen this choice a few times, analytically speaking, it's just killing uniqueness for conformity, which can bring more users in the long run, but looks a bit lame betting “on purple app” so long.
Probably, if gaining a few more users was so vital, the decision should have been taken sooner.
It might be a play to gain farcaster[.]xyz rewards system, the user got on top pretty quickly.
I do think that ultimately many decisions will push the platform towards more engagement farming, farcaster pro is just another push towards making app rewards long-term.
I did previously enumerated the cons of rewards ( https://farcaster.xyz/andrei0x309/0x587b97cc )
Not that I'm tribalistic, but I thought FC would be forever tied mostly with EVM, FID is on EVM, are there plans to be able to modify contracts to build a bridge to move the FID on Solana?
I find it pretty hard to understand FC goals:
1 Create a good decentralized social network?
2 Onboard non-crypto people to crypto?
3 Attract crypto people from multiple ecosystems/platforms?
4 Focus on mini-apps to extract to monetize from client-side?
5 Attract non-crypto people?
6 Empower user ownership and reduce favoritism and censorship?
I don't know, it feels like this product walks 10 paths at the same time, it feels very chaotic, to be clear I personally thought that the idea of slowly and iteratively creating a quality decentralized social protocol with a long runway (10y was first said) was the true goal.
I'm trying to put myself into normie shoes, like someone that would come from Bluesky, and I imagine I would be spooked by 400+ features that seem disconnected from what I would expect from social media.
It's not only on the device, I just logged in with a fresh emulator.
Clearly, it's stored persistently.
In the best-case scenario, it's encrypted with the user-provided seed as a password, and the seed is never stored at Merkl.
But again, without the full source code of the backend + client, it's just: "trust me, bro", for all we know, even the seed could have been stored.
Rewrote this Kotlin Android App that needs root to auto disconnect Data/WIFI.
Looks like on newer Android systems, to make this reliable, you need a ton of permissions, including a special service permission.
This special service permission allows the service to run in the background continuously, without user interaction with the app, and from SDK 33 onwards, you can also run it without displaying anything to the user.
Since they tightened the Store so much, I am curious if they will allow this upgrade of the app.
https://github.com/andrei0x309/auto-data-disconnect-kotlin
I see some opposition to this to be fair, the reality is that all social media platforms use this in some way the problem with this is not the verifications themselves, but in fact, that they are detached from the protocol, making the protocol less valuable.
This should have been something that each client was forced to implement, it should have been a requirement at the protocol level, but that's also problematic because there aren't technical avenues to do that properly, as you have to rely on "good" clients.
The saddest thing about this is, that this represents a crack into the facade that decentralization is safe, folks are willing to sacrifice the protocol if it means a client can be a little better.
I also agree with @v here that you have to have these or similar mechanisms, but that is only if you have rewards.
There is a simple and more effective solution here: stop rewards.
A lot of people comlained that this is not the way to foster a useful social network, and is hard to disagree with that.
Added some neat features in Clear Wallet 1.4.19 (live in the webstore)
- dual provider announcement, one for Clear Wallet and one to simulate Metamask this will allow better interaction with MetamaskSDK websites
- Live RPC performance measurement ( will show ms performance of RPC in UI)
- System native notification if RPC becomes unresponsive
- Dual memory queues for better message processing
- Better disconnect handling tested with a few Connect kits @privy, onchainkit, rainbow, and others
Will probably release a clear-wallet connect kit at some point with a focus on EOA only, simplicity, and performance.
What if we coined every atom?
Technically speaking would not be possible in a non-simulated universe, so you first need to be outside of the simulation.
In that case, every atom is already represented in the system, but you would tokenize the representation in a parallel system to be able to make a quick profit in the market that's outside of the simulation.
I call it post-simulation digital asset tokenization.
How's that for being ahead of time?
That's really great, I would love to see Recaster using the official logo, because farcaster assets were released under MIT, so every client should have the right to use the logo.
I probably will at some point use the same logo for fosscaster.xyz too.
It would be great to see at least several clients using the same arch logo, it might be confusing for users, but it is better for decentralization for sure.
Name farcaster and logo should be owned by everyone, not just Merkl, that's democratizing ownership.
Added new features/changes to fosscaster.xyz repo.
Current features:
- Sign up to Farcaster network using your EOA
- Login to Farcaster network using The EOA that owns the FID or by providing an auth token
- Cast, like, recast, quote, bookmark, delete cast
- Bookmark casts page
- Settings page
- Multi accounts
- Interacting with mini-apps including, doing TXs with your EOA
- Uploading videos(if you account is allowed) and upload images
- Update your farcaster profile
- Add Mini apps as favorites and enable disable notifications for them
- Search (un unauthenticated / guest mode)
- Website full in guest mode, connect modal will appear only when you try to do an action that requires authentification
Disable Waprcast trackers
The primary unauthenticated feed is cryptoleft
YouTube embeds (watch YouTube videos without leaving the website )
DMs and group chats without trackers
Multi-mini-app runs up to 6 Mini apps concomitantly
Animated avatars
Compose cast intent
Storage usage widget
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Added some new changes on fosscaster UI.
- improved mini apps actions add/remove notification
- added ability to upload videos if your account is allowed
- added URL for triggering compose cast with predefined text and embeds, if the user is not logged in a login modal will be shown (URL schema exact as Warpcast)
- added ability to open mini app by special URL /~/mini-apps/domain (domain dots are replaced with dashes example: https://fosscaster.xyz/~/mini-apps/fosscaster-xyz )
Is miniapps user owned by the team?
I ask because miniapps page does not use the `~` character pattern so trying to view miniapps user page will open the miniapps page instead, this breaks search functionality as if you try to search miniapps and click on the user you'll get to the miniapps page.
cc: @gabrielayuso.eth
