July 23, 2024 on Farcaster

The past 24 hours on Farcaster have been bustling with dynamic discussions, major launches, and thought-provoking insights. Here’s a quick guide to some of the top highlights:

1. Ethereum Documentary Release: The trailer for “Vitalik: An Ethereum Story” has sparked immense excitement. After three years of filming across 15 countries, the trailer is finally out. Users can watch and mint the trailer, contributing to the crypto-native distribution of the film.

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Linda Xie on Warpcast

Excited that our @ethereumfilm feature documentary trailer for “Vitalik: An Ethereum Story” is live!! 3 years in the making, funded by the Ethereum community, and a full crypto-native distribution to release it Watch and mint the full trailer at ethereumfilm.xyz

2. Film Enthusiasm: Industry leaders like Fred Wilson expressed admiration for the on-chain distribution model of the Ethereum documentary, and minted their trailers.

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fredwilson on Warpcast

I love everything about the way the producers of this film have funded it and are releasing it. All on chain. All on ETH. Well done! I minted my trailer yesterday at https://warpcast.com/linda/0x7fe62ce7 https://ethereumfilm.xyz/

3. Open Source AI: Chris Dixon shared an impactful quote from Mark Zuckerberg emphasizing the importance of open innovation in countering global espionage and promoting decentralized tech development.

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Chris Dixon on Warpcast

“The United States’ advantage is decentralized and open innovation. Some people argue that we must close our models to prevent China from gaining access to them, but my view is that this will not work and will only disadvantage the US and its allies. Our adversaries are great at espionage, stealing models that fit on a thumb drive is relatively easy, and most tech companies are far from operating in a way that would make this more difficult. It seems most likely that a world of only closed models results in a small number of big companies plus our geopolitical adversaries having access to leading models, while startups, universities, and small businesses miss out on opportunities.” Mark Zuckerberg - “Open Source AI Is the Path Forward” https://go.fb.me/ceql4u https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward

4. Meme Master Inquiry: Varun Srinivasan started a lively conversation, asking the community about their favorite meme accounts on Farcaster.

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Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast

Who are the best meme accounts on Farcaster?

5. Crypto and Politics: Erik Torenberg stirred debate by questioning why leftists are interested in crypto, considering its libertarian foundations that reduce state power.

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Erik Torenberg on Warpcast

Why are there so many leftists within crypto? As Solana says in his bankless episode, crypto disintermediates and reduces the power of the state. I get why libertarians and rightists like crypto, but why leftists? Leftists should want state power to enact leftist policy goals if they care about leftist outcomes.

6. Product Launch: Casslin.eth announced the launch of a new Farcaster native bot for integrating Notion, enhancing productivity within the community.

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casslin.eth on Warpcast

Finally launching @cast2save！A @warpcast native notion integration bot - Your personal curator for @farcaster universe - Seamlessly save @farcaster casts directly to your Notion workspace. - Organize and reference your favorite content effortlessly. - Never lose track of inspiring ideas again. Follow @cast2save, connect your notion account, cast under your favorite cast & it's saved to notion automatically! More info on https://cast2save.com/ Appreciate our beta testers' valuable feedbacks! https://warpcast.com/casslineth/0xa6225348 https://cast2save.com/

7. Creative Art Showcases: Reallyryl shared their latest art pieces on Base, beautifully framed with mint links, demonstrating the fusion of art and technology.

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Cheryl 🔵🎩🍖 on Warpcast

I've made a couple of art on @base so far, and I thought it would be nice to showcase them in a frame like this with mint links embedded :) Built and designed this frame with Figma and /frametown, made with lots of love 💙 Ty everyone who has shown me love and support, let's keep building based builders <3 https://frame.town/ftdyro8u

8. Onchain Cookbook: Jeremy Fall is gathering community support for creating the world's largest onchain cookbook, encouraging Farcaster users to mint recipes.

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JEREMY FALL on Warpcast

building the world’s biggest onchain cookbook with the help of the community. free mint on @base. spreading the word is always appreciated 🔵🍽️ https://highlight.xyz/mint/669f084b267546fa5ab66a94

9. Technical Use Cases: Colin highlighted a creative use of AI, demonstrating how ChatGPT can assist in wine pairing based on an exported CSV from Cellartracker.

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Colin on Warpcast

Cool personal usage of AI: Now that I have all my wines inventoried, I exported a CSV from Cellartracker, uploaded it to ChatGPT and asked it for the best wine pairings for a meal I’m cooking tomorrow https://warpcast.com/colin/0xe3d1100d

10. Security Alert: ZachXBT reported a significant phishing incident, urging the crypto community to stay vigilant and protect their assets.

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ZachXBT on Warpcast

Someone was phished for $4.69M worth of PT-ezETH & PT-sz-rsETH an hour ago Theft transaction hash 0x7357787481b25c99b61912af8159f866d4ff2e7d97039425b529e2890b23c4f6 0x26820ddb9aeb9a74ac757be5e182c83ec20443d2273bbd68d1d1fa86f2b131a0 More than $23.2M has been phished from Pendle users since March 2024 https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/d9f89a8b-a89f-4095-28fa-6866dc584700/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e8853882-5a6c-4655-cf94-24ae5a8d9900/original

11. DA Decentralization: Trent emphasized the growing activity in the Data Availability (DA) fee market, predicting more fee activation as blob consumers come online.

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Trent on Warpcast

All this chatter about “no fees from DA” 1. High fees / low fees/ no fees - make up your mind =) 2. Just look at the trend. DA fee market will likely activate in the next few months as more blob consumers come online https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/71999458-d0ea-4ce0-6d02-12ef16cb9900/original

12. Notification Tools: Pfista announced the addition of a "watch" feature in Buoy to follow specific casts, enhancing user engagement and interaction.

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Michael Pfister on Warpcast

Warpcast removed their watch feature, so we added it into buoy. Follow a cast and get notified whenever someone replies to it. /buoy https://warpcast.com/jaredhecht.eth/0x5a0a6d2e

13. Film AMA: Linda Xie announced an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session for discussing the Ethereum film, showing the community's involvement in the project's launch.

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Linda Xie on Warpcast

We're doing an @ethereumfilm team Farcaster AMA at 12pm ET tomorrow so get your questions ready! :)

14. Smart Contracts Insight: Pcaversaccio provided an in-depth look into USDC and USDT on Ethereum, highlighting blacklisting and gas usage statistics to inform the community.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / on Warpcast

Out of curiosity, I looked into USDC and USDT on mainnet today. Some interesting facts (do with this information whatever you want): - USDC has blacklisted a total of 239 addresses, while USDT has blacklisted 1,746 addresses. - USDC has unblacklisted 6 addresses in total, whereas USDT has unblacklisted 62 addresses. - The USDC contract has consumed a total of 2,077,864,213,467 gas since its deployment, in contrast to the USDT contract, which has used 8,484,080,450,292 gas. - The USDT multisig wallet is a super old version that is incompatible with the current Safe UI, necessitating a simple self-hosted version. - The USDT multisig wallet has encountered 72 transaction execution failures in total. - The USDC contract has been upgraded 2 times since the original deployment. First upgrade was in on 26 April 26 2021 and the second and last upgrade on 8 January 2024. - The USDC blacklister address got changed twice since deployment and the owner once.

15. Techno-Humanist Manifesto: Jason Crawford shared Chapter 2 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, focusing on the expansion of human agency through innovation.

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Jason Crawford on Warpcast

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 2: The Surrender of the Gods (part 1) The story of progress is a story of the expansion of human agency https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/thm-ch2-the-surrender-of-the-gods-part-1

16. Redis Streams Discussion: Varun Srinivasan discussed the potential of Redis Streams for scaling Farcaster’s background operations, inviting community feedback.

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Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast

Redis Streams seem pretty powerful. @sds is cooking up some plans to rewrite our background processor, using streams instead of Faktory (which we are outgrowing). anyone have positive/negative experience working with streams? https://redis.io/blog/youre-probably-thinking-about-redis-streams-wrong/

17. Political Commentary: Venkatesh Rao critiqued Paul Graham’s hierarchy of disagreement, sparking a conversation on effective discourse and engagement on Farcaster.

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Venkatesh Rao ☀️ on Warpcast

This diagram based on How to Disagree was what made me mostly tune out Paul Graham. Ironically, people’s filters are actually a solid basis for tuning your own. This is a filter model for the powerful-but-overwhelmed pretending to be a reasonable discourse model for truth-seeking. A consent manufacturing funnel that eventually ossifies into a reality distortion field and then decays into a charismatic epistemology (see linked thread). I rarely descend to the lower levels, but consider a dash of name-calling a reliable indicator of a real signal. But I don’t care enough to actively disagree with people who feel the need for unilateral rules of engagement. And to be fair, once someone has installed such a filter, I’m not a particularly useful person to talk to for them either. So no loss. But yeah, this is why I give the “civil debate” crowd a wide berth. I’m a fairly civil person but have never had a useful “civil debate” in my life. https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x0996caf2 https://x.com/vgr/status/1421268674313220102

20. Node Performance Upgrade: Wbnns announced a series of upgrades to the Base node performance, aiming to enhance transaction throughput and network efficiency.

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wbnns 🔵 on Warpcast

Following last week's successful increase from 8.125Mgas/sec to 8.75Mgas/sec, @base is continuing to scale up performance and capacity to bring the world onchain by further boosting the per block gas target, tomorrow (July 24th), to 9.375Mgas/sec. This will enable even more transactions on Base to process per block. For most builders and users, no action is needed, but if you're running a Base Node, ensure you're ready for more increased activity from people using Base: 1. Monitor CPU and Disk I/O 2. Upgrade to NVMe SSDs for better throughput 3. Enhance CPU performance, focusing on single-core speed And as always, you can join the Base Discord (https://base.org/discord) if you ever need help, just want to hang, have feedback or questions. 👍 https://warpcast.com/jessepollak/0x4e294aaf