Best of farcaster.xyz/timdaub.eth on Kiwi News
@timdaub.eth on Farcaster · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
58 stories by @timdaub.eth on Farcaster have been shared on Kiwi News since 14 April 2023, with 324 upvotes and 25 comments in total. The latest was shared on 8 January 2026. The 50 most upvoted are listed below.
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- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi Rewards launches with 50 USDC prizes for quality posts
- @timdaub: Kiwi News now supports direct Farcaster upvotes
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News mini app adds haptics, notifications, submissions
- @timdaub.eth: New Kiwi submission contest with 100 USDC for top 20 holders
- @timdaub: alpha release of new Kiwi News mini app
- @timdaub.eth: world has moved on, ETH culture broken, AI changing everything
- Kiwi News wins a 1ETH retroactive grant from Purple!
- New contest: Kiwi karma holders get 50 USDC, deletecasts.com sponsors
- @timdaub.eth: Shipped a minimally cleaner Kiwi News bc of @hellno.eth
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News mini app adds cast link previews
- Kiwistand founder declares start of Kiwi News, Season 2
- @timdaub.eth: Profiles are back
- timdaub.eth: stop using passkeys to sign crypto transactions
- @timdaub.eth: reflecting on "stupid people" 2x2 and founder journey
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News ships rewards leaderboard, looking for sponsors
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News pivots to focus on core content feed
- @timdaub.eth: Farcaster needs a grassroots client fork to prove the protocol
Tim Daub argues that Farcaster needs a grassroots client fork to prove the protocol's value, and that the current revolt against the leading app's founder reflects class struggle more than a technical dispute. He says Farcaster's founders showed genuine altruism when they created the protocol, and that during the ZIRP era, people with modest wealth could have exited by building a new client. He adds that today's workers feel too demoralized to organize a fork, and that the team has contributed to this by suggesting that growing daily active users is extremely hard. He concludes that a grassroots leader could mobilize developers and users to build a client that draws disenfranchised users away from the main app.
- timdaub.eth: Building great products is hard, beautiful things take time
timdaub.eth argues that building a really great product is very hard and that beautiful things take sustained time and iteration. To test this, he built a Telegram channel that posts all casts sent on Farcaster, using the snapchain repo and Claude to extract the gossip component; the backend has stayed online for the last 24 hours. He says that a website, mini app or native app would have required far more work, including hosting, domain registration and SDK details, while posting to Telegram took minutes. He also says that building Kiwi News has involved constant coding to reach a app experience that is now on par with some apps backed by larger teams, and he expresses doubt about whether economics allows beautiful products to succeed.
- @timdaub.eth: Last week's Kiwi rewards have been distributed
- @timdaub.eth: Launching Kiwi News x /memes - the TikTok for /memes
- Tim is back on FC
- @timdaub.eth: Drawdown analysis of Oct 10 market maker crash using Claude
A drawdown analysis of the October 10 market maker crash tests Arthur Hayes's view that projects with real communities and price floors should hold up after the flash crash, while projects kept up by market makers should show deep drawdowns. timdaub.eth ran Claude on a Hetzner instance to scan the top 200 CoinGecko projects and list their deepest drawdowns since October 10.
- @timdaub.eth: See your USDC earnings per post
- @timdaub.eth: Web3 social needs user support, not just VC funding to succeed
- Is the "Farcaster ivory tower" fine, or does Ethereum need representation on X?
- @timdaub.eth: DAU SLASHER app helps users to not use Farcaster
- @timdaub.eth: Comment previews are live!
- @timdaub.eth: Snapchain-listener released under GPL after Snapchain licensing
- @timdaub.eth: Sorry for unfinished feature versions, back to drawing board
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News mini app on Chrome desktop now works well after fixes
- @timdaub.eth: You can now see the view counts and clicks for your submissions
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwipass price increase to 0.0004 ETH for game theoretic reasons
- @timdaub.eth: Weekly rewards ended, money sent to winners!
- @timdaub.eth: Is Rainbow collecting 5-6 USD fee on 750 USD swap?
- @timdaub: AI's impact on online discourse and argumentation
- How key delegation in Farcaster works
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News iOS Testflight adds WalletConnect support, removes MWP
- MWP integration for the Kiwi iOS app
- @timdaub.eth: Kiwi News memory leak caused kernel to kill processes in loop
- @timdaub.eth: Just launched $ITH for ethereum.foundation, already at $2,552
- @timdaub.eth: Updates for the Kiwi News mini app with share-link improvements
- @timdaub: Farcaster's Moloch trap and the protocol growth dilemma
- @timdaub.eth critiques Zora's token-based curation model
- Kiwi News adds an NFT feed
- New Kiwi News NFT drop with Pierre Pauze is live
- @timdaub.eth: Preliminary snapshot of the weekly submission rewards winners
- @timdaub.eth: Preliminary rewards winners of the week
- @timdaub.eth: Reduce clutter with our new and visited links feature
- @timdaub.eth: My Farcaster app coin thesis - invest small in friends' projects
- timdaub.eth: Farcaster needs full telemetry data sharing for better feeds