Dan Romero

Most consumers hold their money in fiat bank accounts.

Crypto market right now is a barbell: speculation and stablecoins If you’re not in the speculation stack—app / UI, DEX, chain or asset launchpad—you’re probably not generating much revenue.

A lot of ink spilled recently about content coins.

Last year, we introduced a new way for developers to build in-feed applications on Farcaster called frames.

As AI advances, the specialized knowledge and effort required to create software will dramatically decrease.

Why is an entrepreneur so optimistic when X, Y, and Z bad things exist?

Why aren’t there more compelling “consumer” crypto “apps”?

One of my favorite reddit threads is a story that became known as Rome, Sweet Rome.

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Most consumer apps during the 2010s monetized with free with ads model because: Consumers weren’t paying for many online subscriptions (beyond an internet connection) Google, and later Facebook, did so well with that model Payments infra was bad (pre-Stri…

If your goal is to build a new protocol, start from the end goal—internet-scale protocol like DNS, HTTP, SMTP—and work backwards.

I’ve mentioned before that the original question we set out to answer when building Farcaster was how could you make RSS competitive with a public broadcast social network like Twitter.

Below are some loosely-held beliefs I have about what will happen during this crypto winter / build cycle.

Build a basic domain registrar for DNS domain names Each domain name registered is issued an ERC-721 NFT; if the domain name is transferred to a different registrar, the NFT is revoked.

Call the service config Mint an NFT that maps to an off-chain URL URL is flat file JSON and contains key-value pairs of common settings, e.g. display name, avatar, language, font size, whether you want dark mode turned on, links to other social networks F…

If Joe Rogan were to leave centralized web2 platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, where his content is hosted is a way less interesting issue than how his content is distributed.

Crypto things that aren’t here yet (or even built) but I’m excited for: NTNFTs (soulbound NFTs) zero-knowledge proof of asset / credential ownership zero-knowledge secret ballot voting new apps / services that allow you to bring your own recommendation al…

Below is a list of startup ideas that might be interesting to work on.

Below is a list of books I read this year.

Strava is a social network for serious-yet-amateur athletes.

A helpful heuristic I use to evaluate consumer apps is the toothbrush test.

One important question when evaluating a new product or technology is “will people or companies adopt this?”.

I occasionally get introduced to people considering an MBA who have long-term aspirations to work in tech.

I recently went on the Venture Stories podcast with Erik Torenberg.

A short list of technical contributions from Netscape: First mainstream web browser and the source of the initial codebase for Firefox — an oral history of Netscape’s contribution to Mozillathe first viable competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer; Goo…

The following is a running list of concepts I learned from following coverage COVID-19.

Yesterday I asked on Twitter for recommendations.

I have been a Daring Fireball reader for the last 15 years.

I’ve long been a fan of Anki as a general purpose tool for learning new concepts.

GitHub Pages Hosting is on GitHub Pages.

Here’s a mostly comprehensive list of the links I found interesting in January 2020.

The iPad turned 10-years old this week.

I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley.

This post originally appeared on Nakamoto.

I spent a majority of 2019 avoiding Twitter.

I had more time for reading this year.

Only 11% of Overcast users stream their podcasts vs. downloading Steven Buss is running for Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) in San Francisco.

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