This is my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client.
Timestamps:
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00:00:00 intro
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00:01:34 sponsor: Optimism
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00:02:44 Farcaster origins
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00:05:59 sufficient decentralization, namespaces, hubs and CRDTs
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00:16:02 type 1 vs type 2 decisions
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00:21:23 the protocol, channels, clients, spam
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00:30:13 direct messaging and end-to-end encryption
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00:36:38 a turing complete social protocol
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00:41:58 sponsor: Privy
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00:43:19 why frames
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00:52:14 Facebook, Twitter, Farcaster
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01:03:25 backstory, growing up in India, Microsoft, YC
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01:08:11 learnings from Coinbase
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01:15:13 building a company
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01:18:53 doing the one thing that matters
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01:28:07 outro
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
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