Today is December 3, 2024. We cover three stories pulled from Polymarket: 1. Will Bashar Al-Assad remain President of Syria through 2024? 2. Will Pete Hegseth be confirmed as US Secretary of Defense? 3. Will Daniel Penny be found guilty?

Dan Romero (Farcaster, X, Website) is the CEO and co-founder of Farcaster, an open Twitter/X-like social network protocol built on blockchain rails. Before co-founding Farcaster in 2020, Dan previously worked at Coinbase as a Vice President, among many other roles. He joined the company as the 20th employee in 2014 and left in 2019. He's thought about and used Twitter-like networks for nearly two decades and is passionate about open information flow, market-enabled progress, and individual freedom. Timestamps: (01:39): We were promised flying cars and all we got was 140 characters (8:48): Bring Your Own Algorithm (BYOA), RSS, Elon, and The News Channel-ification of Social Networks (35:54): The Field of Dreams Fallacy: If You Build It, It Doesn't Mean They'll Come [Farcaster & Crypto-Focused Section Begins] (44:25): Status as a Service and Building the Home for Crypto Status (55:03): What is Farcaster? (59:34): Why not counter-position against Elon? (01:03:42): Programmable social and “Open APIs” (1:14:22): The Future of Farcaster (1:18:01): Farcaster's Value Capture  (1:25:01): Sufficient Decentralization (1:28:44): Why Dan has created NFTs but not tokens [Farcaster & Crypto Focus Ends] (1:29:53): Product Market Fit, Focus, and The Idea Maze (1:37:01): Dan's career arc, contrarian paths, distributed systems, and creative destruction  (01:44:09): Coinbase: pre-2017 learnings, hypergrowth, comparisons between building a culture and social network, and anti-lessons (1:49:20): Brian Armstrong and fostering repeatable innovation (1:52:24): What do you wish Balaji [Srinivasan] could work on? (1:53:20): Group Chats and the pendulum between private and public discourse (01:58:55): Power: Elon, Zuck, Trump?  (2:00:24): Politics, Populism, Going Direct, and the Podcast Era (2:08:48): What have you changed your mind on this year?  (2:10:22): Final Questions

Mint Season 7, Episode 1 welcomed Zack Guzman, Co-founder of Coinage Media, the first community-owned show answering crypto’s biggest questions. In this discussion, we took a deep dive into the world of Web3 media and explored the potential of decentralized technologies to revolutionize the industry. From the co-ownership model of the Coinage Network to the use of smart contracts in handling IP and ownership, we covered a range of topics and offered insights into how traditional media companies were adapting to the Web3 landscape. We also discussed the role of gatekeepers and intermediaries, the importance of involving audiences and collectors in communities, and the potential for composability and content interoperability in the Web3 world. It was an insightful conversation about the exciting future of media in the decentralized world.

Join us for episode 1 of Not A Cartel -- where 4 crypto founders discuss the state of the industry and all of the happenings. In this episode, they discuss: - AI Agents - The rise of artcoins - Getting LOUDER - OpenSea's 1M mints And much more. Hope you enjoy the episode.

We had the pleasure of sitting down with the award winning and widely celebrated Sasha Stiles! A first-generation comic American poet who has been collaborating with AI since 2018. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford and co-founder of the literary collective the Verseverse, Sasha's practice explores the question "What does it mean to be human and an ever evolving post technology world?" She's co-authored books with AI, and her work has studied with an institutions across the world, and has partnered with brands like bang and Olufsen and Gucci. Sasha Stiles Info: Website: https://www.sashastiles.com/ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sashastiles