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Framing the Future of the Internet

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Welcome to the 364 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last week! If you haven’t subscribed, join 219,232 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Subscribed Hi friends 👋, Happy Tuesday! Today’s piece is about a company I’ve mentioned a few times over the past couple years, Farcaster. Farcaster is a crypto company, a decentralized social network, but I want you to try to not think about it with any of the baggage you might associate with crypto as you read this piece. Think about it as a platform or a network. In Chris Dixon’s new book, Read Write Own, which comes out today, he uses the term “blockchain network” as an alternative to corporate networks like Facebook and Twitter and protocols networks like SMTP and HTTP. “Blockchains are the only credible, known architecture,” he writes, “for building networks with the societal benefits of protocol networks and the competitive advantages of corporate networks.” Farcaster is a blockchain network. The benefits of blockchain

Welcome to the 364 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last week! If you haven’t subscribed, join 219,232 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Hi friends 👋, Happy Tuesday! Today’s piece is about a company I’ve mentioned a few times over the past couple years, Farcaster. Farcaster is a crypto company, a decentralized social network, but I want you to try to not think about it with any of the baggage you might associate with crypto as you read this piece. Think about it as a platform or a network. In Chris Dixon’s new book, Read Write Own, which comes out today, he uses…

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