Dan Romero and Erik Torenberg discuss what is exciting in Crypto right now, covering friend.tech, Forecaster’s updates, PWAs, superchain 2a, and infrastructure improvements for more use cases.. Many know Dan as one of the co-hosts of MoZ, but he’s also the current founder of Farcaster (https://www.farcaster.xyz/) and formerly of Coinbase. The guys spend the last half hour talking about the renewed debate around IQ and genetics. If you’re building a business and need compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR or HIPAA, head to www.vanta.com/zen for $1000 off.
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TOPICS DISCUSSED
(00:01:36) How Dan is building Farcaster
(00:02:39) Using Ethereum is expensive
(00:04:14) Crypto and climate change
(00:05:38) Moving Farcaster over to the L2 (layer 2) Ethereum ecosystem
(00:06:50) Dan's goal to abstract away the complexity of crypto
(00:07:49) Dan's take on the buzzy new friend.tech
(00:12:27) Friend.tech's smart use of a PWA + impressive growth
(00:17:11) Coinbase has its own blockchain now
(00:18:23) Debating the crypto has no use case critique
(00:21:47) Are SPACs worse than Crypto's scammy retail stuff
(00:24:21) Chamath and accountability
(00:30:24) How will crypto get to a billion users?
(00:39:11) The case for Farcaster and the future of social media
(00:47:55) Where will the influential parts of crypto Twitter go?
(00:52:25) How much value can be captured by subscaled social networks?
(00:56:51) Why we'll see startups move away from venture-backed business models
(00:58:24) Billionaires that dominate niches
(00:59:26) Most successful media company of the past decade
(01:03:59) Crypto's regulations are a gray cloud over financial innovation
(01:08:08) Opportunities to expand upside for people, from businesses to UBI
(01:09:12) Crypto is not politicized
(01:14:40) Genetics and IQ
(01:24:04) The Sam Harris + Ezra Klein Charles Murray debate
(01:32:48) Why this is the next major culture war issue

RELATED EPISODES:
Upstream w/ Erik Torenberg ft/ Sam Harris
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DeR2VZOjpnE9pQ9b3Om9S?si=u662cEDUTt6D27D09Jnk0w
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e10-sam-harris-on-populism-polarization-and-his-beef/id1678893467?i=1000614749192

Upstream with Erik Torenberg ft/ Ezra Klein
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/36vTPPcpisMVXSgq9bnj1w?si=WEysQWc4RouTxd1hzNl1iw
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e3-ezra-klein-on-supply-side-progressivism-polarization/id1678893467?i=1000607892890

LINKS:
Farcaster: https://www.farcaster.xyz/
friend tech: friend.tech
Vox debate and article: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/17210248/sam-harris-ezra-klein-charles-murray-transcript-podcast and https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/15695060/sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq-forbidden-knowledge-podcast-bell-curve

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