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@shazow.eth on Farcaster · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
8 stories by @shazow.eth on Farcaster have been shared on Kiwi News since 9 April 2025, with 24 upvotes and 1 comment in total. The latest was shared on 26 January 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @shazow.eth: What's the hackernews of ethereum today for crypto tech?
- @shazow.eth: v0/bolt/replit for onchain contracts
@shazow.eth proposes a v0, Bolt, or Replit-style tool that takes a user from zero to a custom onchain contract with a basic frontend in under 60 seconds, asking who is building it. The proposal suggests combining tevm, heavily curated LLM prompts, and a simple generative frontend, running entirely in-browser until deployment to a rollup. It starts opinionated, using viem, Porto, Base, and Solidity with OpenZeppelin mixins, so users can prototype items such as an NFT auction, token wrappers, escrow arrangements, or DAO ideas. A v2 should focus on security by generating test suites, flagging areas for human audit, and a best-practices repo with Foundry tests and forking.
- @shazow.eth: ethereum-llms.txt for onchain contract discovery and usage
- @shazow: Farcaster is wrong about gambling, it's like cigarettes not nudity
Andrew Wagner (shazow) argues that Farcaster is wrong to treat aversion to casinos like aversion to nudity, a cultural norm people can get used to. He compares casinos to cigarettes instead: some people enjoy them while accepting the risks, while others cannot tolerate the smell or struggle with lifelong cravings. He says a substantial subset of people will never come around, not from ideological disagreement but because they do not want to be around the smoke all day. He also suggests the group could be a majority by association and warns that making casinos front-and-center may cause regrettable collateral damage.
- @shazow: Social venues vs social networks—building spaces for friendship
Shazow argues that online spaces should be judged as social venues, meaning places for making friends and meeting in person, rather than as social networks or social media, which the author says are defined by business models focused on consumption and status. Twitter was a social venue around 2009, where the author made many friends, but it later became mostly about consumption or conflict. The author describes Farcaster in 2024 as a great social venue, citing local meetups, poker games and friendships that continued in person, and contrasts it with friends who moved to Bluesky or Mastodon. The post closes by asking how to build healthy online social venues that can persist and thrive.
- @shazow.eth: "sufficiently decentralized" only means censorship resistance
Shazow argues that "sufficiently decentralized" for social networks means only censorship resistance, and nothing more. The definition, from a 2022 essay by @v (Varun Srinivasan), says a network is sufficiently decentralized if two users can find each other and communicate even when the rest of the network tries to prevent it. The definition places no constraints on who owns, funds, or controls the network or which use cases it encourages. Under this definition, a network owned by one company with a single client could still credibly claim to be sufficiently decentralized. The author calls the claim tightly scoped and useful, and says many people on Farcaster read more into the term than it contains.
- @shazow.eth: AI won't reduce programmer jobs, it'll create more bespoke apps
The author's scenario is that AI-assisted programming could increase programmer employment by making many narrow, bespoke apps economical rather than shrinking the number of programmers needed. The article contrasts today's broad programs like Photoshop, Notion, and Asana, which take tens or hundreds of programmers many years to build and satisfy most users only partly, with a future of hundreds of apps each built for a narrow workflow used by perhaps only hundreds of people. It suggests a fully satisfied customer may pay more, and that programmers would work across a wider variety of smaller products, while large long-lived projects such as the Linux kernel and Ethereum persist.
- On Mainnet and rollups
The author argues that the alternative to rollups is not all activity moving to Ethereum mainnet, but a proliferation of separate L1s that share no security and interoperate only through traditional bridges. Per the text, Ethereum's rollups should make launching a rollup strictly easier, more secure, cheaper, and more profitable than launching a fresh L1. The article holds that mainnet still needs to scale, since many reasons to build an alternate L1, such as a different VM or sequencing, would not be met by mainnet scaling alone. It also argues that rollups should pay Ethereum for benefits such as stage 2 security, better interoperability, and better sequencing, with payments rising as those benefits become real.