Charlie Varley

ᴀʟʟ ᴡᴇ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇ ɪꜱ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪꜱ ɢɪᴠᴇɴ ᴜꜱ • @bloomsocial

[The LOCAL W.M.C. @TheLocalWMC]

You can’t build what you want to build. You build what the market allows.

In this segment from last weeks ep, @TimMeggs and @c_varley chat all things @bloomsocial, why crypto’s biggest problem is behavioural rather than technical and the strange lifecycle of online communities.

As always, links below -

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@TorayKortan Schizo CT looking good here

[The LOCAL W.M.C. @TheLocalWMC]

Trading apps are becoming social media...

@TimMeggs is joined by @c_varley from @bloomsocial to discuss building through almost a decade of Crypto cycles, the evolution of online communities, social trading and why the behavioural layer of Crypto may end up mattering most.

Links below as always.

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@mickeymantled https://t.co/GsHff3MyF1

bloody hell, you're right

[John Smith @JSmith_Crypto]

I've recently noticed an uptick in claims of "quantum resistance" from cryptocurrency projects. This thread explains how to differentiate which are BS and which are legit.

[Katana Perps @katanaperps]

Katana Perps is live.

@Katana has acquired IDEX and launched a native perps DEX built on structural yield, not token emissions.

Early access is open now, and Season 1 points are live. 👇🧵

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

step 1: run a mass social experiment with some of the best IP of all time. print money and bring joy to millions
step 2: quietly build one of the largest real-world visual datasets in history
step 3: ???

genius

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@Icebergy desensitising us and normalising war

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@KhanAbbas201 Szoboszlai banger

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@game_for_one @0xSisyphus financialised in game economies will eventually work

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@divine_economy sadly the way of the world and nothing specific to crypto

they don't validate the beliefs they've formed
don't question their information sources
don't spend time with people from the cultures they've come to hate

just follow the programming and look for further confirmation

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@nevlyfans yup, been this way since 2018.

it's a cultural thing. part of the adoption curve requires making crypto sexy again

and that culture comes from outside not from within - like Cash app in the 2010s

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@nevlyfans @serpinxbt @icobeast moral of the story raise from community earlier

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@nyamiGG yessir

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

2:52 All roads lead to Bloom

[threadguy @notthreadguy]

i will never buy another creator coin

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@Langerius apps brother, apps

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@zerion alpha

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@0xthegipper @meetgranola it’s the best

[Charlie Varley @c_varley]

@jakub_rusiecki lool it was strangely encouraging