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@BrantlyMillegan

2 months

holy fucking shit google has integrated ENS into its search 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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I was recently the target of a sim swap attack, which I thankfully survived. here's what happened and how you can protect yourself: one evening i suddenly started getting spammed with hundreds of texts from random numbers, mostly just gibberish. i went through and deleted and…

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@BrantlyMillegan

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I've actively contributed to the crypto community since 2015. everyone was weird, nobody cared abt your private life, we were all focused on crypto. the NFT craze of 2021 brought in a new crowd who's more woke authoritarian for some reason. i felt the shift even b4 i got canceled

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11 months

ETHEREUM IS ACTUALLY DOING REALLY WELL No, this isn't "worse than past bear markets" 😂, everyone calm down, it's not even remotely close. Here are some facts: 1) ETH Price As I write this, the ETH Price is around $1900, which yes is lower than the ATH in Nov 2021, but it's…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

this is my incredible wife heading home the day after having her 7th child 💪 (the other 2 kids are the ones who weren't at school when we arrived home)

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

wooowww i hope people realize this is not only big for ENS, this is massive **for Ethereum in general** godaddy is the largest DNS registrar in the world, a critical part of the "traditional internet" ecosystem. I can attest from first hand experience how just a few years ago…

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@ensdomains

3 months

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with @GoDaddy 🎉 Millions of customers can now use their DNS domains in the ENS ecosystem! Let's dive into what this means👇

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

it's a boy! Timothy Lloyd Millegan, born on Merge Day and the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. Krista is doing great. praise the Lord 🙏

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 month

happy Easter from the Millegans! Christ is risen, He is risen indeed ✝️💐

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

the "generational" divide (not by age but by when people entered the industry) in the crypto industry is real. OGs are more libertarian (whether they are left or right), noobs tend to be more authoritarian (almost entirely from the woke left)

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

ENS is *lightyears* ahead of all other blockchain naming protocol attempts. it's not even close, I'm serious. ive personally talked to ppl at basically all the other attempts you've heard of (and many you haven't) and *none* even understood ENS let alone naming in general

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

A common misconception about Sign-in w/ Ethereum (SIWE) is that it's just another name for Connect Wallet (CW). SIWE *uses* CW, but goes further. Both are needed in different apps depending on how a service works. It's important for both users & devs to know the difference👇 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

gosh it's great to be working on product again

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

Update on Virgil Griffith: Virgil has been in solitary confinement for nearly 3 months. Not as a punishment but b/c it was the only place they had available beds in his prison 🤦‍♂️. He'll be moved to the general population once there's room, but it's unclear when that will be. 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

The Ethereum Follow Protocol (EFP) Thesis: Ethereum needs a native protocol for following other Ethereum accounts. This is a high level proposal meant for soliciting feedback and sentiment. I propose a protocol for following other Ethereum accounts that has its root on…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

Devs start project. Realize they need help w/ the non-dev stuff. Hire BD, comms, & community ppl... who don't understand crypto 😬 Very common story. Ppl vastly underestimate how bad it hurts your project if the ppl who *interface w/ others* don't know what they're talking about

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

wife currently in early labor. telling her to hold off until tomorrow so baby is born on Merge Day 💪

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

how do i meme @elonmusk into making me chief crypto officer of twitter? my case: - led ENS (most successful decentralized id, key to any serious decen. social media) from month away from bankrupt to multi-billion $ protocol - impeccable anti-woke cred (google my name 😅) 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

craig wright isn't satoshi unstoppable domains aren't unstoppable xrp won't replace swift smart contracts aren't about to take off on bitcoin the latest VC-chain isn't the next ethereum ethereum isn't a centralized scam

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

✅ Name with Ethereum ✅ Sign-in with Ethereum 🔜 Follow with Ethereum (coming Q1)

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

i just registered a new domain on godaddy to try out the new crypto feature and i'm not joking this is what they recommended as a placeholder landing page

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 days

serious q: why did Democrats turn anti-crypto? don't give lazy answers like "they're stupid" etc. this was not inevitable (and could be reversed) is it as simple as the banking lobby was more successful w/ them behind the scenes than w/ republicans? or that dems increasingly…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 months

we're not even done with Q1 and yet we already have in 2024: - 9 bitcoin ETFs - BlackRock launches fund on Ethereum - Larry Fink pushing crypto talking points on CNBC - Google integrates ENS into search - GoDaddy adds a "Crypto Wallet" tab and let's you connect your DNS name to…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

13th wedding anniversary today! 6 kids (7th due next month 👀), lots of great memories, many more to come 🥂

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

@signinwitheth @SpruceID @Obstropolos @wycdd finally got a response from them after these tweets. they said they're intentionally excluding me "to keep the community safe and inclusive" wtf

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

that's it. ENS is the only blockchain naming project still standing. happened a lot faster than I expected but here we are

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@BrantlyMillegan

7 months

identity will likely be the way Ethereum is utilized by the largest number of ppl. most ppl will never use most defi protocols (which is fine), but everyone will need a web3 identity. so the total addressable market for identity is ultimately every person in the world (not to…

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

gotta say that @etherscan asking for $1 million/yr from the ENS DAO streaming program for them to fix their faulty and incomplete ENS support is one of the biggest DAO looting attempts i've ever seen 😅😅😅

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

last wk I submitted the form requesting to attend the @signinwitheth call tmrw. after all, SIWE was my idea, I coined the term, led RPF process & picked @SpruceID , & am EIP co-author no response. what? Messaged @Obstropolos & @wycdd from @SpruceID too, also no response wtf?

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

Visited Virgil today! It was great to see him in-person again, it had been a while Wasn't able to get a photo of him this time (strict rules re photos), but maybe in the future And he had a message he wanted me to pass on to the ethereum community 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

there is *quite* the gap between what is said privately versus what is said publicly, let me tell ya

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

dear ENS community: ENS is the best chance we've ever had a decentralized naming and identity system. among many many attempts, it's the only one to have gotten this far but it could definitely all still fail we have to work hard as a community to make sure we don't blow it

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

one of the worst things that ever happened to the crypto industry was that the EOS team made out like bandits despite the chain ultimately failing. it established one of the most tempting playbooks

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

a nice thing about being suspended from twitter for 6 months is I no longer have the compulsion to immediately form and share an opinion on breaking news

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

Here's why I voted against the most recent @ENS_DAO working group funding. (I've responded to people privately about this but sorry I hadn't said anything publicly yet, I've been busy with some other things.)

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

happy 1st anniversary of ENS DAO and token launch! 🍾 among DAOs, it's been one of the most successful & active. i think this is true for at least 2 reasons: 1) ENS the protocol is genuinely useful 2) the DAO genuinely has a critical role to play let me explain 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

The Crypto Industry must become a mission-focused industry. Wasting time on issues not directly related to the mission of the crypto industry is a short-lived false luxury of bull markets. But the bear market is back and devs are in jail. Time to get serious again.

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

born on Merge Day at 4:20am, born again in the Lord ten days later 🌊🐚

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@BrantlyMillegan

10 months

if you don't see them building in the bear, don't trust them in the bull

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

today was a great day for a birthday! i'm a rich man 🙏

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

Two big updates on Virgil Griffith: First: Virgil is out of solitary! 🙏🙏🙏 This is ofc very positive. He called moving to the general population "like going to candy mountain" lol 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

4 months

we'll wonder how we lived without it @ethfollowpr is coming soon...

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@BrantlyMillegan

9 months

the ethereum ecosystem needs a native protocol for ethereum accounts following each other here's a look at the latest Ethereum Follow Protocol designs. you can follow the development of EFP at @ethfollowpr

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

the head of crypto at Shopify 👇👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

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5 months

@BrantlyMillegan @pmillegan @morebang69eth @Shopify I am pretty sure we could get this built in a hack days - length period of time

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

@pmillegan @morebang69eth @Shopify I'm confused what would be a higher priority than SIWE?

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@BrantlyMillegan

11 months

wow I just survived another hack attempt, this time with advanced social engineering targeted against me directly. Here's what happened and how to protect yourself: I got a call from a US phone number I didn't recognize, but it hung up quickly before I could answer. Then a few…

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

WE HAVE OUR 50TH @ethfollowpr LAUNCH PARTNER & it is.... Pudgy Penguins Marketplace! 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 they'll display EFP counts on profile pages 🤝 a HUGE thanks to @0xLoMel @ppmctweets and the whole @pudgypenguins team for reaching out and making this happen 🙏🙏🙏

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

and people think other blockchain naming systems have a chance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

@RyanSAdams not even close, crypto is order magnitudes bigger, more developed, and better funded now and has a far lower chance of total failure a this point

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

your periodic reminder (pls RT for visibility): - ENS supports any arbitrary data, incl all crypto addresses - DNS names work on ENS - CCIP-read enables free unlimited subnames - $ENS airdrop is long over - no plans to ever do another $ENS airdrop - repent and submit to the pope

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@BrantlyMillegan

10 months

Is the crypto industry just a den of thieves? Here's what I've seen with my own eyes over the last 10 years It seems like there's fraud everywhere in crypto, from pump and dumps and hacks to scams and theft. Think SBF, Do, etc. So is the crypto industry just a den of thieves…

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

6 kids, 15 grandkids, epic lives these are my incredible parents celebrating their 54th wedding anniversary 🎂💍

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@BrantlyMillegan

11 months

A CALL FOR DAO MINIMALISM IN PROTOCOL GOVERNANCE ENS DAO as a case study TLDR: When it comes to protocol governance, DAOs should not be a way to "get people involved," with low value activity done inefficiently with a DAO to show it's "active" or "engaging the community," but…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

fun fact: despite suspending my account, twitter kept charging me each month for twitter blue 😅

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

the great @garypalmerjr pointed out something very profound in a twitter spaces today. the words "Crypto Wallet" are now a menu item in the GoDaddy UI. let that sink in 🤯

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

Many people who are Catholic, Muslim, Mormon, etc or otherwise agree with me have been watching whether web3 is for them. Many are currently in prominent roles in the industry. I know this b/c they message me (privately of course) to tell me. I wonder why they keep it private?

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

the amount of social capital a person loses by having had a .eth and nft pfp on twitter last year and then removing it now that we're in a bear market is incredible. self-own that reveals they were never legit to begin with

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

ENS needs a social graph to remain competitive with other social graph projects that have their own name and profile systems that compete with ENS. So that's what we're building with @ethfollowpr : an on-chain social graph protocol for Ethereum accounts **that exclusively uses…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

The Daily Gwei by @sassal0x is an extremely valuable contribution to the eth community. noob or not, I *highly recommend* it as one the best ways to stay up-to-date (w/o clickbait crap in most of crypto yt)

The Daily Gwei

The Daily Gwei ecosystem provides education, tools and resources to keep you in the loop with everything happening in the Ethereum ecosystem - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Subscribe to the newsletter:...

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

here it is! happy @ensdomains cancellation anniversary everyone. big thanks to @jonst0kes for bringing me out to his awesome airstream despite the ice storm and letting me tell my story and also talk about the future

Brantly Millegan | The RETURN Podcast Ep. 1

Jon Stokes interviews Brantly Millegan about his public cancellation one year ago today. Brantly is the former Director of Operations for the team behind the...

www.youtube.com

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

ENS STREAMING FUNDING: I request your support for Ethereum Follow Protocol if you are a delegate, I request your vote for Ethereum Follow Protocol (it looks like the voting for the ENS streaming funding will start in less than a week) EFP is already highly linked to the ENS…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

their name is literally *unstoppable* domains and they just unilaterally turned off a bunch of their names. then offered ppl store credit for their other "unstoppable" domains 😅😅😅

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@unstoppableweb

2 years

Important: We became aware of a potential collision with .coin and have decided to stop supporting .coin domains. We’re offering .coin domain owners credit of 3x what they paid. 🧵👇 Here’s everything you need to know:

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

the current race to get a desirable handle for the latest social network, in this case Farcaster, is precisely what ENS (your web3 username) is meant to avoid. you get one name *and take it with you*. more silos is the opposite of web3

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 months

ok it looks like @Sothebysverse @michaelbouhanna don't want to do the first ever major auction of an ENS name with crypto.eth (they stopped responding) but how about @ChristiesInc ? I've got think there's a way to make this happen @nicoleasales @chennycheeto @sebastianss527

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

ppl who publicly joined the mob against me 7 months ago messaging me now that they're surprised and dismayed that bad things happened to me as a result 😅

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@BrantlyMillegan

4 months

the internet was meant to be decentralized. web3 making it happen ✅ Ethereum wallet: your account *for the Internet* ✅ ENS: portable web3 username & profile ✅ Sign-in w/ Ethereum: authentication 🔜 EFP: portable web3 social graph @ethfollowpr is coming this quarter 😮

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 months

google integrated ENS before some crypto dapps 💀💀💀💀💀💀

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

the number of actual woke true believers is small. much larger is the number of people who are simply terrified of them

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

Jordan @eviljordan , the principal eng @GameStop , says I'm "a horrible human" who "deserves to be excluded from society completely" simply b/c I believe and practice Catholicism. I'm sure the inclusion & web3 is for everyone crowd will rush to my defense any moment

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

GOOD REMINDER OF WHERE WE STAND i live in middle america outside of tech and finance circles. according to my anecdotal experience, average normies... HAVE heard of - bitcoin - crypto - blockchain - cryptocurrency - crypto trading - NFTs have NOT heard of - ethereum - web3 -…

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@BrantlyMillegan

4 months

1) Bitcoin ETF ✅ 2) Ether ETF 3) ENS digits ETF it's inevitable at this point

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@BrantlyMillegan

7 months

happy to announce our second launch partner for EFP, @0xNimi ! 🔥🔥 Nimi makes slick profile pages for .eth names & is currently the default on @eth_limo (try ) They'll integrate @ethfollowpr by automatically showing your EFP follower/following counts 👏

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it's CRUCIAL we show pro-crypto politicians we appreciate their support, so plz join me in appreciating 👏👏👏 another congressman we can count on our team, my House rep @RepTimmons I had a great meeting w/ him and his staff yesterday. he listened well, showed understanding of…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

if they got scared and caved to a few wokes, I wonder what they'll do when the feds call

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@BrantlyMillegan

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there is obviously no outcry from average citizens demanding crypto be squashed, if anything the opposite. so is the SEC really just fighting for banks or big govt wanting to keep control? or is there some other dynamic I'm missing that explains why they care so much?

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"everything etherans think they invented was first described by bitcoiners on bitcointalk 10 years ago" is not the anti-ethereum pro-bitcoin own you think it is. it's the exact opposite: what bitcoin was unable to do, ethereum finally made a reality

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

devcon was great, but wen ENScon?

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

gotta say nick.eth's new vampire aesthetic to rep ENS is one of the most bullish things i've seen for the project in years. we're back 🧛‍♂️💪

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@BrantlyMillegan

3 months

how do we make crypto.eth the first ENS name auctioned off at Sothesby's or Christie's in NYC? @Sothebysverse @michaelbouhanna @ChristiesInc

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

just put together that little timmy was born at 4:20am on Merge Day 😅. can't make this stuff up

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@BrantlyMillegan

4 months

gm frENS. wtf is going on?

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

babe are you ok? you created another naming system instead of just using ENS

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@BrantlyMillegan

9 months

this is a great moment to show off some Ethereum Follow Protocol designs I've been working on today

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 months

imagine you're building some crypto dapp. for some reason, you haven't integrated ENS yet. even tho it's in all the libraries and easy to integrate you just never got around to it blah blah then you see google and godaddy integrate ENS before you what does that do to your self…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

fyi my account has been suspended since Feb 6 (despite it not showing that to other appeal, I don't know why). lots of DMs, I see! I'll go thru all them eventually but it'll take some time

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3 months

amazing how little it matters right now that ETH has hit $3k, a level it's previously been at for only a few weeks of its 9 year history and only during moments of peak hype

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@BrantlyMillegan

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i still believe in ethereum

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

this is the best time to start a new crypto company or project (serious)

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@BrantlyMillegan

5 months

Merry Christmas from the Millegans! 🎄✝️

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@BrantlyMillegan

1 year

Happy ENS Constitution Day! 📜🎆 It's been one year since the ENS Constitution was ratified (time flies, frens) 84,350 signers the first DAO constitution ever at this scale here's why the ENS DAO has a Constitution and an explanation of the principles it stands for 👇 1/

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

don't trust anyone in crypto who hasn't survived at least two bear markets

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

@signinwitheth @SpruceID @Obstropolos @wycdd ironically, the twitter account for @signinwitheth uses sign-in.eth, which I personally registered and still own

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one of the things I'm most looking forward to about @ethfollowpr is you'll be able to amass followers even if you've never used EFP before so the first time you connect to the EFP manager, you may discover you already have ppl following you this is b/c there are no EFP…

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 months

pretty insane that even with the bitcoin ETFs, ETH is *up* against BTC year to date

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

the not-yet-canceled wishing they had my freedom to say what they've also been thinking

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

P.S. oh my gosh 😅😅😅 can't believe I forgot to mention i hold elonmusk.eth (an ENS name), ready to help you set it up for free anytime. that's true whether you hire me or not

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3 months

drop your .eth below and i'll follow you on farcaster

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@BrantlyMillegan

2 years

happy 1st anniversary of the ENS DAO announcement! here's a short kind of funny and embarrassing story about it:

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2 years

should i start a new company to build tools for ens?

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@BrantlyMillegan

4 months

this is no time for distractions, we're working to get Ethereum Follow Protocol launched on mainnet as quickly as possible @ethfollowpr 🫡

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