badly drawn barry (@badlydrawnbarry) • Hey
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- seems like all the fun stuff has been happening on blast recently. have you been using it? warpcast kind of came and went, and now all attention seems to be on blast, d1 and fantasy in particular. i feel like these things are only fun while there's money to be made, and that at some point soon, the music will stop.
- i'm a seal now. arf.
- all my dreams are about food. last night i dreamt i was back in thailand and trying desperately to find a place i knew that did *kanon jeen*.
- how about this bull market, huh? are we all having fun yet?
- what are these "pointless" tokens we all got airdropped?
- a lot of people talking about warpcast at the moment, and drawing comparisons with lens. the main critique i've seen of lens has been friction in the onboarding process (gated for a long time, a lot of stuff on chain). as i've been here since the beginning, i haven't really been exposed to the experiences of people who have been trying to get in. what do you think?
i've tried warpcast and it's pretty much the same as twitter, but what it does have going for it is the caliber of the people on the platform. it's yet to really suffer at the hands of low-quality influencers and shills. the flip side of that though is that it's all a bit "technical" there.
- "three body problem" is one of my favourite scifi series. i'm so excited about the upcoming netflix adaptation. i just hope they don't mess it up. it's such a big task. apparently they're also trying to bring the hyperion cantos to tv or film. please, hollywood, don't let me down.
- i come to lens to hide from the threadoors and airdrop postoors. it's all so tiresome. i just want to chill.
- crazy few days, huh. how you holding up?
- gm are you enjoying the markets?
- happy holidays hey fam.
- santa rally!
- gm
- what do you want for xmas?
- i have some blast invites, for anyone who's not signed up yet. it's a new l2 backed by paradigm that you can farm by inviting people and depositing funds to earn yield and stuff.
it's all a bit of a ponzi, but one we can all probably make money on. can find out more here: blast.io/
my strategy, if you could call it that, is just to park some stables there, and also to let my blur s2 airdrop farm on the blur site. you can't withdraw from blast until feb, so deposit and forget about it for a few months.
invites:
https://blast.io/PSJPC
https://blast.io/7F6YT
https://blast.io/UCM6G
https://blast.io/Q5Y7E
https://blast.io/VERMR
- air fryer people: what are the best things you cook in your air fryer? i'm trying to convince my wife to let me get one. pics would be useful too.
- cute!
- gm friends. what are you doing this weekend? sunday now. i'm thinking to head to the gym and then play some breath of the wild. and maybe have a nap.
- 1 Million Transactions (and counting) on Momoka.
In case you need a refresher, Momoka is our Optimistic scaling solution for Lens. It process transactions at hyperscale, and is uniquely designed to support the next generation of web3 social users.
Not every 'gm' is needed onchain.
1 Million transactions on Momoka cost ~$500 USD ($0.0005 per txn).
Explore further here:
https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/3Hcl0dGE8AOYmnFolzqO6hJuueDHdsaCs3ols2ruc9E
We're extremely excited about the significant progress we've made with our infrastructure layer over the past year. But we're just getting started.
Next up on the roadmap for Momoka: comments for onchain posts and support for any network.
Watch this space 👀
- is this the start of a bull market? feels like it might be. probably won't be an insane bull market like previous cycles, but i could see a lot of money flowing over the next 6-12 months.
- i'm starting to think all those nft projects from 2021 might have overpromised on their roadmaps.
- hey, how you doing?
- hey 👋
- gm happy sunday. what are you up to today?
- gm
just gotta say... hot damn i am enjoying the live-action one piece way more than i thought i would. i went into it expecting to hate it, but they've actually done a really good job with the whole thing.
- my 3-year-old daughter plays new super mario bros with my son and i now lol. love family time heh.
- gm
do we do book recommendations here? i just finished "the three body problem" and i can't stop thinking about it. it's a chinese sci-fi novel, the first part of a trilogy. it feels like a very long prologue, and it's super heavy on the science, but it poses some really interesting questions about the survival of the human race. gonna get into the next book now.
- decided to get my son a nintendo switch for his birthday. think this will usher in a new era of bonding time. to now, he's only played ps5 single player games at home. excited about this new journey.
- how are you feeling this week?
- gm what's happening in your world today?
summer is here now. i'm mostly focussing on life and family.
- gm
haven't felt much like posting recently. i've become a little disillusioned with the crypto and web3 space as a whole. seems like the dominant narratives are are driven by grifters and scammers who are just cashing in on their influence and audience. it's all so tiresome. i dunno.
- gm. what's something cool you're going to do this week?
me? not sure yet. i might join a new poker league. and maybe try some new skills at the gym.
- can we just take a minute to talk about foxes?
we have a lot of foxes in the uk. it's fine. they do their thing. but over the past few years, they've become a lot more confident. they are not bothered by the presence of humans. they walk around without a care in the world, day and night.
but now... they've also figured out how to open food bins! they've evolved! (in the uk we put food waste in food bins that go outside with a handle lock, to be collected for recycling.)
wtf?! it's only a matter of time before foxes overthrow us as the top of the food chain.
- gm folks. how's your week going?
- mood
- what's your favourite song? this is mine. hope you like it. happy sunday.
https://youtu.be/DfZMvTHJLUs
- need some tips. what are your fav things to do on zksync, beyond just bridging/trading/pooling? is there anything gamified yet?
i got so into arbitrum cos of the treasure ecosystem and all the games. it was just... fun. anything like that out or coming to zksync?
- got sick for a few days and ended up missing out on generational wealth again with the new wave of memecoins.
- gm how are ya?
- how does phaver work? why do i have so many more followers on phaver than lenster? are these real people?
- went on a subscription purge. i try and do this every now and then. cancelled twitter blue (waste of money), nowtv (rarely watch it), alphabot premium (waste of money). sure i could cut a few more out. prime, netflix and spotify are ones i consider essential as myself and the family use them often. but even so, it's crazy to think how much the average family spends on subscriptions these days.
- family holiday. back home now. nice to get away.
- i can't take twitter anymore. omfg. it's just endless threads about how to spam/farm airdrops. so much junk cluttering up the timeline, and you can't even mute it because there are so many tweets from so many different people. same content just regurgitated *ad infinitum*.
i hope we can keep that kind of content off lens. it just kills the vibe. airdrops aren't rocket science. find protocols, dexes, bridges... and use them. that's it.
- it's actually great being on holiday and ignoring mints/floor prices. highly recommended. hope you're all good, lens fam.
- wow. go away for a few days and opensea basically launched blur lol.
- taking a week off work. holiday with the fam. need to refresh and recharge. flying out tomorrow.
what are your plans for the weekend?
- original content.
atauro island, timor-leste.
collect/mirror, if you like.
- what do you like about hanging out here on lens compared to hanging out on twitter?
for me, this place is a lot calmer. with far fewer engagement farming/repetitive posts/threads.
- happy hump day.
- oh my days. i am so bored of the endless twitter threads about airdrops.