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Dan Romero

@dwr

14 days

Warpcast is hiring staff-level or above engineers and designers.

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Dan Romero

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Dan Romero

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We're hiring staff-level frontend, React Native, backend, distributed systems engineers. Full-time $300K+ cash & equity >0.5% Contractor $30K a month—flexible on cash / equity split Team is 10 people, all engineers. No PMs or unnecessary meetings.

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Dan Romero

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Ironic that SF cleans up the fentanyl dealers when the chief fentanyl dealer comes for a visit.

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3 years

Wikipedia should fundraise by selling NFTs for every page.

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Dan Romero

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We're hiring staff-level frontend, React Native, backend, and distributed systems engineers for Farcaster. Full-time $300K+ cash & equity >0.5% Contractor $30K a month—flexible on cash / equity split Team is 12 people, all staff-level engineers except me. If you meet the…

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Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

We're permissionless!

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Dan Romero

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2 years

1/ After nearly a 2-year hiatus, I recently updated my Crypto Reading list.

Crypto Reading

A list of worthwhile posts about cryptocurrency.

danromero.org

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

Farcaster is now live on OP Mainnet!

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

Ah yes, the classic $0 to $1.4B in revenue in 3 years underachievement.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 months

Largely driven by tweets. Turns out X is as relevant and upstream as ever.

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Dan Romero

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11 months

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Dan Romero

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1 year

This is an utter failure of the US regulatory apparatus. Coinbase and several other regulation-first companies have been trying for nearly a decade to offer licensed derivatives in the US.

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Dan Romero

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1 year

A warm welcome to @VitalikButerin to Farcaster.

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Dan Romero

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3 years

Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s… …reusable rocket is a joke …electric car for rich people is a joke …LEO fast global satellite Internet is a joke What is wrong with these people?

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Dan Romero

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9 months

Thrilled to announce Farcaster will be moving to OP Mainnet. Many of our most active users & developers are building on the OP Stack across OP Mainnet, Base & Zora. We’re also excited about Optimism’s strong commitment to open source & OP Mainnet identity initiatives like EAS.

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Dan Romero

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2 years

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Dan Romero

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4 years

It’s astonishing to me that landing and re-using rockets like this went from far off science fiction to business as usual so rapidly. Amazing what a determined group of people willing to ignore the haters, pundits and cynics can accomplish.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

Up to 38. Just passed WeChat.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

Big milestone tomorrow: the Farcaster protocol will be 100% permissionless - Sign up directly on OP Mainnet. No more invites. - Users can use any client of their choice - Devs will have full access to data / APIs via Hubs - Zero dependencies on Warpcast

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

Last day to get a Farcaster invite before the migration to OP Mainnet. Send me a Twitter DM if you're interested.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

Announcing the Farcaster waitlist We still have a few more weeks until sign ups are permissionless, but in the meantime if you're still interested in trying out Farcaster (and getting the first year for free), scan the QR code below.

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Dan Romero

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3 years

crypto boomers waking up to news that China is banning Bitcoin

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

Note to self: when a smart friend says they have "gotten in to that community a bit" it's either a cult or 5,000x investment opportunity.

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3 months

Farcaster is a mullet. web2 in the front, crypto in the back.

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Dan Romero

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7 months

Introducing cryptoless-but-onchain onboarding for Farcaster Starting today, Warpcast allows anyone with an iOS device to sign up for Farcaster without a pre-existing wallet or any crypto. Just a few taps with Passkeys and in-app purchases. All 1.4 billion iOS users can use…

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

Crossed 100K *paid* sign ups since going permissionless in October.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

6 months

My ideal individual bank account: - Everything can be accomplished on mobile without talking to someone on the phone - ACH, wire and USDC payments - Ramp / Privacy-style virtual credit cards for everything with cash back - Auto classify all outgoing payments regardless of…

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Dan Romero

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4 years

I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them. It’s meant to be a primer for many of the popular concepts and jargon you will hear working at a startup.

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.

danromero.org

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

7 years ago tomorrow. I thought I was late to crypto. 🙂

Dan Romero

@dwr

10 years

Today I’m really excited to announce that I’m joining the team at @Coinbase . Bitcoin!

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Dan Romero

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1 year

Can we all agree to stop referring to a 30-year old man as a kid?

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

I would pay $5 a month for a weekly newsletter that sends me new meme templates. Call it meme dealer.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

11 months

apple just shipped private key social recovery

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Dan Romero

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4 years

WeWork meets Airbnb/Hipcamp: marketplace for cabin-like offices in anomalous rural areas that have fast internet connections. Could potentially solve for existing slow internet with line-of-sight microwave and/or for certain regions when Starlink goes live.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

10 months

We're hiring a staff-level frontend engineer. Team is currently 10 people, all engineers (other than me). No PMs or unnecessary meetings. Plan to keep the team small. $300K+ cash & equity >0.5% North American timezones. DM if interested.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

10 months

Twitter going full Quora and killing the usefulness of a tweet URL.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

Create a token-gated group chat on Farcaster Link in the next tweet that will only work if you have a Pudgy Penguin.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

Living almost entirely in crypto for the last 7 years, you get told how much a toy crypto is and how advanced Wall Street is and then you finally get close to a Wall Street process and you realize it's mostly baling wire and duct tape.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 years

The most underrated modern skill: being *actually* good at Google search.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

9 months

We're hiring a staff-level React Native engineer. Team is 10 people, all engineers. No PMs or unnecessary meetings. Plan to keep the team small. $300K+ cash & equity >0.5% Requirements in the next tweet. DM with a link to CV / GitHub / LinkedIn if interested.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

First month over 100K MAU! Last 7 days DAU to MAU at ~50%.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

1 year

A lot of public and private conversations over the last 18 months about how FTX was eating Coinbase's lunch. Very similar to 2017 with Poloniex and Bittrex. It may be unsexy, but making incremental forward product progress in a regulated way seems like the optimal strategy?

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Dan Romero

@dwr

1 month

Introducing Farcaster Actions Farcaster Actions are like Chrome Extensions for a social network. Developers can build actions that users can install to their Farcaster app in a few taps via a frame. Works on mobile and web Links in next tweet.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

The future of consumer crypto apps is not requiring a user to have any pre-existing crypto or even a wallet. Just sign up and use the app. No knowledge of crypto required.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

9 months

Feels like Coinbase is back to a culture of shipping at the right moment during the bear market. Base, re-launching Canada, improvements to Wallet. Kudos to everyone there sticking it out. 🫡

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 months

crypto founders when a user makes it through onboarding

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

Farcaster protocol DAU, the first 800 days

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

The first eight Farcaster protocol release NFTs

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

. @brian_armstrong thanks for the Farcaster + frames shout out on the earnings call!

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 months

You can now verify Solana addresses on Farcaster! Verifications are part of the protocol, i.e. decentralized, and are permissionlessly available on Hubs.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

8 months

crazy that AI finally popped off because Ethereum stopped using all the GPUs

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 months

Reminder that if you’re interested in intelligent conversations about Ethereum—that’s happening on Farcaster.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 months

I grew up on these streets

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

Up to 64th!

Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

Up to 111th in the App Store.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

Have the crypto pivot to AI founders pivoted back to crypto yet?

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 years

An increasing number of people who are described as being “based in Silicon Valley” no longer actually live in Silicon Valley. This had been happening for awhile—and then suddenly accelerated with COVID. Silicon Valley is now a mindset and economy located on the Internet.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 years

I suspect if Figma, Notion or Linear implemented Sign in with Ethereum it would create enough design fomo that every SaaS startup would have it within 18 months. cf. dark mode

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Dan Romero

@dwr

1 month

when you ask the founder you wrote a check to in 2021 who has never sent an investor update how it's going

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

you: "China banned bitcoin" me: "which time?"

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

Warpcast is officially on the Top Charts in the App Store! Long way to go. :)

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Dan Romero

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9 months

The Farcaster stack...now on the OP Stack

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

a good week!

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 years

Posted a listing on Facebook Marketplace for the first time last night. 13 credible offers in the first hour. Messaging experience vastly superior to Craigslist. Item was sold and picked up by 9AM this morning. My best experience with the core Facebook app in 10+ years.

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Dan Romero

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2 years

. @balajis “bookapp” concept is a glimpse into the future of internet-native books.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 years

Portable user settings as an NFT

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

I think about this chart a lot.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

10 months

If you want a Farcaster invite, send me a DM. We don’t have rate limits.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

Society in 2021 if the EU had started designing phone hardware requirements in 2005.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

Best email I received today. BTC > MBA

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 months

200K sign ups! 10x since going permissionless in October.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

We're hiring staff-level frontend, React Native, backend, distributed systems engineers. Full-time $300K+ cash & equity >0.5% Contractor $30K a month—flexible on cash / equity split Team is 10 people, all engineers. No PMs or unnecessary meetings.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

The real story behind most tech Twitter people’s bad web3 takes.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

6 months

EA just died. Long live e/acc.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

proof of commit > proof of admit

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 years

Excited to share an update about @farcaster_xyz !

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Dan Romero

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3 months

Finally flipped my Twitter follower count on Farcaster!

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Dan Romero

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8 months

Farcaster v3 commemorative NFT

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

I learned more in 10 minutes from Elon’s interview of Vlad than in all of the financial press articles I read last week.

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Elon Musk is better at interviewing than at being interviewed, which actually makes quite a bit of sense when you think about it.

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Dan Romero

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8 months

Record DAU for Farcaster today. OP Mainnet tomorrow!

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Dan Romero

@dwr

4 years

Why aren’t Japanese-style toilets more popular outside of Japan?

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

PSA -- we don't have any bandwidth for partnerships right now for Farcaster. No input on app ideas or decentralized social research reports. We're not attending conferences. Just focused on keeping the site up, feed quality and making progress on frames. :)

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Dan Romero

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3 months

Improving crypto UX with onchain password reset We just crossed 5K onchain recoveries for Farcaster. One thing that I learned at Coinbase was that mainstream users forget passwords. But we want Farcaster to be self-custodial. So we've implemented two layers to help users keep…

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Dan Romero

@dwr

5 months

farcaster sign ups since inception everything after the purple arrow is a permissionless paid sign up to the protocol excited for 2024

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 months

Looking for brutally honest feedback: if you're on Farcaster but not actively casting, why not? Send me a Twitter DM. Don't have to be nice, just honest. Did this last year and it was really valuable. :)

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Dan Romero

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4 years

Surprised there aren’t more Strava for X. 1. Single-player tool with multiplayer social feed 2. The more you use the app, the more likely you are to do the atomic behavior. 3. Doing more of the atomic behavior is actually good for you. Potential examples learning, cooking…

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Dan Romero

@dwr

2 years

Wish I had this when I first started working in tech.

The Manual

Wealth-planning resources for founders and startup employees

manual.compoundplanning.com

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Dan Romero

@dwr

6 months

Farcaster protocol at an all-time high in usage

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Dan Romero

@dwr

10 months

ENS usernames are now live on Farcaster!

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

New frame updates that just shipped: - Mint action buttons - Square aspect ratio (better for NFTs) Also Warpcast now supports minting with warps on @base . Image is below is an NFT available on Warpcast.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

1 month

70K+ DAU yesterday. New record.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 years

We wanted flying cars and all we got was a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1GHz and 512MB RAM computer the size of a stick of gum.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

This is now: 11 million unique follows 8 million reactions 4.2 million casts

Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

The Farcaster social graph now has: - 5 million unique follows - 6 milion reactions - 2.8 million casts All mappable to 30K Ethereum addresses with onchain activity. Data is 100% public and permissionless and you don't even a Farcaster account to access.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

1 year

If you have an ENS and want to check out Farcaster, send me a DM for an invite.

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Dan Romero

@dwr

3 months

every user on farcaster has an Ethereum wallet

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Dan Romero

@dwr

1 year

We're building a Farcaster web client. Looking for a staff-level engineer who wants to architect & build it. Team: everyone codes & is staff-level. No PMs or unnecessary meetings. Plan to keep the team small. North American timezones. $250K+ & equity >0.5% DM if interested.

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Dan Romero

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people on threads seeing the guy play chess with his brain

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