Feb 6, 2024

Decentralized social protocol, Farcaster recently saw its daily active users skyrocket after the launch of a new feature, called Frames, that turns Farcaster-based posts into interactive mini-apps.

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What is the problem with mainstream social media? Creators don't have a direct relationship with their audiences and developers don't have access to the API S. What are frames? Frames are interactive social media posts that give developers total freedom to create new and delightful experiences for consumers. How long do you think it will be before a decentralized social platform reaches a billion users? Five years. What's the biggest misconception people have about decentralized social media that it's hard to use. What's your crypto Genesis story? I was college roommates with Fred Urson, one of the co founders of Coinbase. He said you should come and work at Coinbase and I responded to him. I do not want to work for a Ponzi scheme um which a year later after finally reading the Bitcoin white paper, I came hat in hand and was kind of begging for a job at Coinbase. So that was my initial read, which was wrong, but I soon therefore corrected it uh in 2014 and and have been in crypto 10 years this year.

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