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New comment by nofunphil in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

nofunphil — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:17:22 +0000

Onchain consumer credit (x402 “credit card”)

https://x.com/philip0x/status/1982219251479097601?s=46

New comment by nofunphil in "I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

nofunphil — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:29:38 +0000

Love this. But wonder if it would work better if there was an incentive tied to using your phone less, ie. Rewards points for staying off socials.

New comment by nofunphil in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

nofunphil — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:42:23 +0000

Do you have kids?

New comment by nofunphil in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

nofunphil — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:18:21 +0000

Going thru this now with an 11 yo and 14 yo.

It’s a non-stop, swash-buckling battle to get them to put down their phones and do literally anything IRL. Their attention has been completely hijacked, their childhood robbed from them, and I feel like it’s pretty much a total parent fail on my part. But it’s the same with all their friends too. Shameful and sad and just wrong

At the risk of ridicule, I think we need to incentivize kids/people to use social media less. Think, “Touch grass. Earn points.”

Faroff dot fun

New comment by nofunphil in "Researchers tested AI watermarks and broke all of them"

nofunphil — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:12:00 +0000

Agreed. At the risk of a shitstorm of downvotes, tokenized media could be part of a solution, especially at the consumer level. Authenticate real videos via a mint button/QR that airdrops you a token from creator. May require platforms to opt-in tho. Basically trust nothing unless you can authenticate source onchain. Not great fo sho, but prob necessary soon

New comment by nofunphil in "I would rather see my books get pirated than this"

nofunphil — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:34:24 +0000

No. The NFC chip plus the unique NFT makes it impossible to copy

New comment by nofunphil in "I would rather see my books get pirated than this"

nofunphil — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:32:51 +0000

No. Not necessary. You only need the verified NFT linked to “authentic” books. 3rd party service does minting and verification. It’s the same strategy luxury fashion houses are using with tagging physical products with NFTs for authentication

New comment by nofunphil in "I would rather see my books get pirated than this"

nofunphil — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:29:37 +0000

Via a 3rd party NFT minting service. In order to create the NFTs the original author could set up an account with the 3rd party, KYC herself and then mint tokens for every book she sells. 3rd party verifies/authenticates the book + NFT

New comment by nofunphil in "Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981"

nofunphil — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:07:28 +0000

So, I think it’s time to build solutions that directly address the problem (inflation). An interesting idea would be an NFT (I know…bear with me)that breeds a “child NFT” when CPI(inflation) rises past a threshold. Owner can sell child to cover inflation costs. Child becomes a parent when transferred, and similarity breeds based on CPI increases. Cycle repeats…

Would love to hear why it won’t work, how to improve it, etc.

Instead of asking governments to stop printing so much dang money, or, starting wars, both of which cause inflation, we can now say fuck it and build economic tools that protect people from the crushing lose in purchasing power. Let’s do that!!

New comment by nofunphil in "NASA's new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball 'squashing' on the ISS"

nofunphil — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:59:41 +0000

a docking station at the central point that the ship rotates around

New comment by nofunphil in "S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021"

nofunphil — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:52:13 +0000

Buying Bitcoin is becoming similar to buying gold. It’s a Store of Value. Why is gold an investment? Because it’s scarce and we have, as a society, decided it’s an investment. There may be nuances here, but that’s the basic idea. Bitcoin is digital gold. Most other tokens are similar buying fiat currencies which can help if you local fiat currency is hyper-inflating. But then some tokens give access to de-fi which a whole other rabbit hole.

New comment by nofunphil in "Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra"

nofunphil — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:01:10 +0000

Yup, agree. A low-fee payments app with crypto rewards would be interesting. But just like how Patagonia serves certain consumers I think different payments apps will appeal to different people who have different priorities and goals when it comes to their money. It opens up the landscape to massive competition in designer currencies and payments apps. I think it will come down to trust, security and brand identity

New comment by nofunphil in "Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra"

nofunphil — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:53:29 +0000

No. FB is the establishment. Now that they've "opened" the crypto door a little wider, it creates the opportunity to build crypto payments that revolt against FB. Solution will likely involve privacy, responsibility, inclusiveness and charity.

New comment by nofunphil in "Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra"

nofunphil — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:37:14 +0000

Exactly. What this does is create a wide open space for a "anti-establishment" crypto payments system. But one that people actually understand and trust. Fiat will likely be UOA for stage one of the transition to crypto. But as more people get educated we'll move to fully Open payments. Many will use Libra. But many will use other services. It's not binary. Multiple winners will emerge. Brand identity will be huge here. Think Patagonia v. Walmart v. Nike. How you pay for things will become part of how you present yourself to the world. It's about to get very interesting.

New comment by nofunphil in "Ask HN: How to give cryptocurrency to people in need?"

nofunphil — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:38:09 +0000

1. Target specific towns and villages in need; perhaps anywhere M-Pesa is used is a good place to start??

2. Hire mobile money agents in those places to facilitate crypto to fiat exchange (when necessary)

3. Monitor progress extensively.

4. Incentivize merchants in the selected towns and villages to accept crypto for payment (granted, easier said then done, but I have some ideas there as well)