Agents and Stablecoins
Why consumer spending via agents will most likely be with cards in the near-term
Dan Romero
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The crypto barbell
Speculation, stablecoins and nothing in-between
Are content coins good?
New things require iteration but also an open mind
Farcaster Frames are now Farcaster Mini Apps
Renaming Farcaster frames to Farcaster mini apps
Software as content
An app for every occasion.
Bad is the default
It’s entropy.
Where are the crypto apps?
Why aren't there more compelling "consumer" crypto "apps"?
Rome, Sweet Rome meets ChatGPT
Having ChatGPT draft a screenplay for Rome, Sweet, Rome.
Farcaster ideas
Ideas for stuff to build on Farcaster.
On subscriptions
Consumer internet monetization in the 2010s vs. 2020s
Product-led protocol development
If you're not willing to do it yourself, why would others?
RSS+
The original brainstorm for what became Farcaster
Cryptonative domain registrar
What if every domain name was represented as an NFT
What I'm excited for this build cycle
The Merge, L2s, practical ZKPs and more
config.xyz
Portable user settings as an NFT.
Podcasting distribution is the problem to solve
Building a direct connection between podcasters and listeners is unsolved.
Crypto things I'm excited about
We're still in the first innning of new crypto primitives.
Free startup ideas
11 ideas. No guarantees they are good, though.
2020 booklist
Books I read in 2020.
Strava for cooking
Social network for serious amateur cooks
The toothbrush test
A helpful heuristic I use to evaluate consumer apps is the toothbrush test.
Significantly worse or non-existent
One important question when evaluating a new product or technology is “will people or companies adopt this?”.
Good and bad reasons to do an MBA
The pros and (mostly) cons of an MBA for people who want to work in tech.
Erik Torenberg's Venture Stories podcast interview
I recently went on the Venture Stories podcast with Erik Torenberg.
Netscape's contributions
A short list Netscape's contributions to the modern Internet.
COVID-19 learning
A running list of concepts I learned from COVID-19.
What to watch March 2020
Crowd-sourced recommendations from Twitter on what to watch.
Jekyll linklog
How to make a Daring Fireball-style linklog with Jekyll.
Improved Anki stylesheets
A few quick improvements for more legible Anki cards.
How this website works
An overview of how danromero.org is built and runs.
January 2020 links
83 links I found interesting last month.
iPad at 10
The iPad at 10-years old.
Startup canon
I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them.
Coinbase's pragmatic crypto culture
If there is a defining cultural trait that was responsible for Coinbase's success it was the company’s pragmatism.
2019 favorite RSS subscriptions
I spent a majority of 2019 avoiding Twitter. As a result, most of my Internet consumption originated from blogs, group messaging and email newsletters.
December 2019 links
Links I found interesting last month.
2019 booklist
I had more time for reading this year. I also traveled to several new countries and tried to read a book related to the place I was visiting.
Next steps
After 5 years, I’m leaving Coinbase at the end of the month.