From Coinbase Employee #20 to Building Farcaster with Dan Romero

Mint Season 6 episode 20 welcomes Dan Romero, Co-Founder of Farcaster, the sufficiently decentralized social network. Throughout the hour we discuss his thesis for web3, the current state of web3 social, building an audience as a crypto-native creator, what it means to be sufficiently decentralized, how web3 will beat the bots, and so much more.

Previously, Dan was the 20th employee at Coinbase and is an active early-stage angel investor across web2 and web3.

I hope you guys enjoy our conversation.  

Time Stamps

• 00:09 - Intro
• 03:37 - Dan’s Original Thesis For Web3
• 07:37 - The Current State of Web3 Social
• 19:23 - Problems to Fix With a Web3 Social Graph
• 31:19 - Building an Audience as a Crypto-Native Creator
• 36:18 - Measuring the Success of a Creator In Web3
• 45:46 - What is Decentralized On Farcaster?
• 53:25 - How Do You See Clients For Farcaster Evolving?
• 01:02:15 - How Do We Beat the Bots?
• 01:03:29 - Incentives For Developers to Build On Top of Farcaster
• 01:05:56 - Outro

Additional Resources

• Dan’s Twitter
• Farcaster
• Episode Timestamps and Transcripts

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