Varun Srinivasan: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network

This is my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:34 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:02:44 Farcaster origins
- 00:05:59 sufficient decentralization, namespaces, hubs and CRDTs
- 00:16:02 type 1 vs type 2 decisions
- 00:21:23 the protocol, channels, clients, spam
- 00:30:13 direct messaging and end-to-end encryption
- 00:36:38 a turing complete social protocol
- 00:41:58 sponsor: Privy
- 00:43:19 why frames
- 00:52:14 Facebook, Twitter, Farcaster
- 01:03:25 backstory, growing up in India, Microsoft, YC
- 01:08:11 learnings from Coinbase
- 01:15:13 building a company
- 01:18:53 doing the one thing that matters
- 01:28:07 outro

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
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