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Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/13/2023

Not quite Venice, but I really like the pizza at Ghisallo. https://maps.app.goo.gl/LM2yXVRVhShQXJWs6

In reply to @yuga
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/13/2023

I'm going to start doing this and then I don't need to bother debating whether crypto should exist whenever someone asks me about my job. Another plus: for non-infra companies, explaining your product without mentioning crypto forces you to actually focus on the value of the product.

In reply to @ducktape
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/13/2023

Gotcha. Is the problem: 1. Mods ignore you 2. Not enough servers to join 3. Something else? I'm curious what other companies are paying in crypto. We pay ourselves with fiat via Rippling. Is your product for the employees receiving payment or the companies paying?

In reply to @ducktape
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/13/2023

Join some Discords, and ask the mods if they can give you some advice on an idea you are working on. Then ask everyone you talk to who else you should go talk to. If you have connections at the Ethereum Foundation, I believe employees there have the option to be paid in crypto. So you could reach out to them.

Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/12/2023

Weird little idea: what if you wrote tech specs and tech docs as Jupyter notebooks? Anyone reading the notebook could fork it in browser and play around with the code. Probably better for docs than tech specs. You'd need a better commenting system on the spec use case.

In reply to @v
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/8/2023

Mostly for REST I mean a resource oriented API. Never actually built a truly RESTful API (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer)

In reply to @dbmikus
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/8/2023

What are some other standout use cases that are not possible without blockchain and that are vital to users that don't care about crypto's ideals?

In reply to @dbmikus
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/8/2023

There's a ton of philosophical benefits I agree with: censorship resistance, decentralization, etc. But I don't think those bring mass adoption. Likewise, crypto UX isn't good enough for a lot of use cases, so only the most vital use cases force users to use the blockchain when they don't care about crypto itself.

Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/8/2023

Thinking about real-world crypto use cases happening RIGHT NOW, that are only possible due to crypto. I cross investing, gambling, and self referential use off this list. Bonus points if users don't care it's crypto. Two stand out: - faster international settlement - payments in countries with runaway inflation

In reply to @fredwilson
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
7/7/2023

I've been trying to tell Tim Cook that instead of working on AR/VR they should be focusing on smell-o-vision. Modify airpods to fit in the nostrils and call it nose-pods

In reply to @benmills
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
6/15/2023

Happy to chat/be interviewed. Previously built an NFT credit card checkout product, but pivoted away from that

In reply to @bias
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
6/13/2023

I think Ponder is building the data layer for that stack. https://github.com/0xOlias/ponder

In reply to @trickylabyrinth
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/16/2023

The folding part is the most important part

In reply to @klusya
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/15/2023

I want a combo washer/dryer where I can put in my dirty clothes and it'll wash, dry, and fold them without me having to do anything else.

In reply to @dwr
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/15/2023

So is this dunking on the people posting low effort memes or the people complaining about people posting low effort memes or all of us?

In reply to @morereese
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/15/2023

Yes definitely! Part of why I think things need to move past selling the technology and more towards selling the benefits. I think whenever a product has items that can be tradable (collectibles, loyalty points, financial instruments), crypto is better because you implement a standard and get markets for free.

In reply to @v
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/15/2023

lol I always assumed they've worked and someone has run a dispute. But never actually done it myself Is there some discussion where they're not working yet? If true, that's honestly hilarious

In reply to @dbmikus
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/15/2023

A bunch of zkEVMs are either just launched or hitting launch on mainnrt very soon. Not sure how production ready they are, though. The pragmatist in me says pick Polygon because I imagine they'll build tooling to bridge between roll-ups sidechain. Or get on the Base+Optimism chain and get grants CHOO CHOO

In reply to @v
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/15/2023

What's the security problem with Arbitrum and Optimism, besides censorship? As long as you have somebody checking fraud proofs, should have the same security as Ethereum, right? Not sure if one can selectively check just fraud proofs that interact with Farcaster contracts. If so, only check txs you care about

In reply to @bias
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/13/2023

Disagree, but I'll give it a like for getting the conversation going

In reply to @samspurlin
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/13/2023

The Art of Game Design is less of a story and more of a textbook, so pretty different from Blood, Sweat, and Pixels.

In reply to @nbragg
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/13/2023

You need one of the following to onboard people: 1. Banks to store fiat money and exchange for crypto 2. Peer to peer fiat to crypto swaps (ie I give you cash you send me crypto) 3. Gov supported crypto. USA just says "here's your tokens"

In reply to @maurelian
Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/12/2023

Damn I've been had

Dylan Mikus@dbmikus
3/12/2023

Gonna go old man shouts at cloud mode: why do people share screenshots of code instead of copy pasting the code? It hurts searchability, copy paste. Imagine if Stackoverflow was all screenshots. Nobody would get anything done