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 Farcaster just raises $150M from all of the usual suspects in crypto vc. 

If we want Nostr to win, we're going to have to start moving faster. 
https://unchainedcrypto.com/decentralized-social-network-farcaster-raises-150-million-in-a-series-a-round/ 
 Move Fast & Break Things are what VC backed shitcoin platforms do. 
 omg! this one other place got money! we’re all gonna die! run run!  panic! panic! fomo! fomo! zero sum game! 
 If there's no freedom like on nostr, sooner or later they collapse 
 Fair play for trying to make something even shitter than Facebook. 
 I don't worry about this at all, they gonna rug pull all the users and run out with their "ethereum treasury" 
 *run away 
 Take a 10-year investment of $150M. 

If you put on the S&P, you get 325M after 10 years with "no risk". 

If you put on Bitcoin, you get 1B back with wide swings. 

But in both, you do nothing.

OR give it to a start up that can lose everything and return ZERO back. 

Question: How much should you expect the startup to return to you to be worth that type of risk? 

$10B? 

That's 10B just for your share of the company. 

If you take a 25% share, the company should get be worth $40B. 

How much profit does the company have to have to be worth $40B? 

For comparison, Snap is worth $25B with 5B in advertising revenue from 350m users.

If you don't like ads, $5B in subscription revenue requires $1/mo for 350m PAID users. 

Can this company get 350m PAID users?

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 Sure, but we don't need shitcoins to do it. 
 I would absolutely love to see a talk about Nostr vs Farcaster vs Mastadon vs ?? submitted to the agenda for #NostRiga

Anyone feel up to it? 

https://github.com/nostrworld/nostriga/issues

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 Let them sprint. 
We’re here a for marathon. 
 Sometimes you have to strike while the iron is hot though 🤷‍♂️ 
 We'll move slower, but we'll be better off in the long run because we aren't tied to scammy centralized tokens. 
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 And they will piss it all away. More vaporware. 
 Those funds are highly centralizing. Farcaster is not decentralized and so it is not competing with nostr. Like all Eth shitcoinery, it's decentralization theatre, and rug pulls are the exist strategy. 
 This is definitely a race.  
 slow and steady 
 First it's asking me for a email account and now it's asking me for 5 dollar to finish setting up an account. I don't think this is anything like Nostr so no need to compete.  
 Willing to bank on the fact that farcaster wont be around by the next cycle 
 should we get ready for another shit coin chart? 😂 
 There's place for both. The people on Farcaster are so much different from the people on Nostr.

I'm on both (and Mastodon and Bluesky), so I don't know what that makes me. 
 Yeahnah 🐢 #build