Permaweb & the War on Link Rot. Building a Better Internet w/ Sam Williams of Arweave (IE.40)

A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. Join us at ⁠live.seedclub.xyz⁠ on Fridays 10am PT / 1pm ET 00:39 - Welcome 01:17- Nicolas, EP40 guest host intro 03:05 - Sam Williams  04:06 - background of Arweave, Ao, Sam 04:30 - why did they start the on-chain data archive? 05:17 - they started with newspaper articles (nostalgia) 05:50 - storing webpages 06:02- permaweb 07:17- centralized/decentralized borderless web 07:45 - ao by arweave - computing service 08:15 - architecture deep dive - message passing vs global shared state 09:03 - real time orderbook for content trading by bots 09:30- pay once to store forever promise explained 09:50 - its a protocol not a promise, its trustless 10:53 - the economics of the data storage and how incentives work 13:29 - layers of Arweave  13:35 - Ar.io - serves content for users + have naming system like ENS 14:10 - how subdomains work  14:40 - real decentralized access to web applications 15:15 - monolith web - modular web  15:48 - real customer examples to understand power of the technology  17:39 - Llama Land - fully onchain world  18:20 - fully onchain LLMs creating onchain games 20:28 - problems with the global shared memory systems and scaling 23:25 - Ethereum x Arweave and ao (mutual state programs) 24:18 - competition (Solana, Ethereum, Arweave) 24:50 - onchain agent economy 25:15 - *decentralized* games, AI market makers (uniswap V3) 28:34 - what’s the cultural signifiers of Arweave? pfp collections, llama land and more 30:20 - testnet but it's not testnet (they’re conservative) 31:10 - Josh and Nicolas reflections on Arweave 32:40 - Farcaster marketing 34:10 - Farcaster’s focus on its strategy and not distracted by the “metas”  34:30 - engagement rate changes 35:55 - value proposition, attention and target users 37:00 - Tiktok and Farcaser 38:57 - “it needs to be felt not marketed” 40:06 - distribution - going to the target users  42:13 - Hopper - data prediction example and reach more users 43:47 - Uniswap x KidSuper collaboration to reach people  44:57 - what the fuck is Peace doing onchain 45:35 - 🌟internet explorers pfp collection on motherchain🌟 48:19 - financialization is the wedge - speculation  49:30 - motivation - adaption of onchain platforms and different perspectives 50:10 - Nicolas ‘s takes on financialization, tokens, Farcaster’s Degen 51:30 - identity and monetization of it  52:20 - Arweave and financialization wedge 53:40 - Moxie - tokenizing engagements 55:25 - fan tokens on Farcaster 56:28 - makenow.meme - launch memecoin on Twitter 58:54 - B2C2C   01:00:35 - what differentiates this from the NFT craze? 01:01:45 - what is smort? Find out at https://paragraph.xyz/@joshcrnls.eth  01:02:03 - White Walls public beta