jcdenton.beb

We just hit over a thousand mints on @beb.bsky.social, so it’s time to get serious.

Crypto UX is unusable for the average person, so we’re rebuilding it from the ground up with bebOS, from wallet to app store.

Our new landing page on beb.domains explains our vision:

Excited to try the Vision Pro - we’ve been building in VR since the Quest Pro (beb.social + unity experiments).

We believe there’s an exciting intersection in crypto and VR for @beb.bsky.social and our apps on bebOS (like farquest.app).

Stay tuned! 🏗️

Watch BlackBerry online – Prime Video The riveting true story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BlackBerry is a whirlwind ride through the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.

It’s out on Prime Video! https://www.primevideo.com/detail/BlackBerry/0ONP2ABVUE08BFD185BQSTIBDR

Just bought a brand new BlackBerry Storm after watching the BlackBerry movie.

It serves as a reminder that mediocrity is unacceptable against competition, it launched a year after the iPhone and flopped.

Our focus is making .beb an NFT operating system - we're not just a name on a chain.

That's why we also rebranded to bebOS Labs today, with beb.domains as our home site! 🚀

When launching beb.domains, we made the mistake of copying ENS - our users spent $15,000 of gas, and half was wasted on an unnecessary commit transaction (unneeded since were a new collection).

We fixed that mistake today with one step mint for beb.domains.

Mints just got cheap!

8 months ago we defined "SuperNFTs" - an NFT operating system: supernft.gg

@beb.bsky.social is becoming a SuperNFT:

When e.g. @0xen.bsky.social minted a farquest.app pass, they also got a BEB Reputation Score, and they can create a beb.xyz community...

Announcing http://farquest.app 🟪

Complete quests, unlock loots & rank up REP

This is built on the decentralized Farcaster protocol. We could expand to Bluesky if there is enough interest :)

Woah…

"Attention user, your accounts has been flagged, please report to your closest eye scanning station to reinstate your account."

Fake AI bots are ramping up, if super corporations like LinkedIn/Microsoft can’t get a grip on it, how will crypto companies?

That’s why we’re working hard on decentralized reputation at beb.domains, I don’t want my eyeballs scanned 😂

https://www.ft.com/content/0f358d1d-0d43-4223-b1d3-825f0f50b381

The problem of doing engineering for 10 years means you don't learn how to explain ideas to a layman - we rebranded beb.domains again: we're keeping the internet human!

How would you describe your company to the average person?

Another great section:

Found out someone in Europe meticulously digitized the very hard to find Facebook Red book from 2012, when there was very little source material: https://spaccapeli.com/i-remastered-facebooks-little-red-book

Do you have a favorite cult-like startup book that has defined how you work?

Amazing how accurate Google Bard is at explaining brand new websites e.g. here's one for @beb.bsky.social: "Tell me what beb.domains is".

I think Bard did a pretty good job, amazing that it's built right in!

Does Bard explain what you're working on well?

The future is becoming trustless due to AI, can you quickly tell Alex was invented by GPT-4? (video on Twitter) https://twitter.com/cryptojcdenton/status/1654503057445773313

We're building a reputation protocol to solve AI impersonation at beb.domains, if you're excited and want to talk, DM me!

We have a public telegram at: https://t.me/+AAgF-ptLxjEzZGNh

We don't define or measure trust, we simply help create it. Here's an answer from GPT-4 on how reputation creates trust:

We create trust by providing decentralized reputation - e.g. right now you don't know if I'm real or if I'm a bot.

A high BEB Score would mean I'm less likely to be a bot.

The goal of our decentralized reputation is to make it easier to trust people instead of assuming everyone is a bot.

The first scoring system we implemented checks onchain transaction details, so it will be heavily involved! https://beb.xyz/reputation

It would be fun to create a "Bluesky Score" next :)

Multiple BEB reputation providers with their own algorithms can score an individual, where you pick the providers for your usecase!

Such providers can be e.g. a Bluesky provider, where an algo assigns a 350 to 800 score based on your Bluesky usage.

See https://beb.xyz/reputation for details!

I'm excited to announce we are evolving our @beb.bsky.social protocol to create trust in a trustless world where AI agents impersonate humans, more details on Paragraph:

https://paragraph.xyz/@jc/evolution

We've also completely redesigned our landing page on beb.domains!

It's Chakra! https://chakra-ui.com/docs/styled-system/gradient#text-gradient-api

I like trying new decentralized platforms, this one looks promising :)

I'm excited to announce I’ve gone full-time on beb.domains after 6 years of Meta engineering!

We have a BEB 2.0 announcement soon with our plans to evolve the protocol, here's a sneak peek for now 👀

The memes about tipping landlords is slowly reaching reality

https://twitter.com/entrapranure/status/1641207733541011456

I'm noticing online retailers are starting to ask for a tip for online orders (e.g. here I'm buying packaged ramen).

Would you tip a retailer when buying clothes, electronics, etc?

I'm excited to announce I’ve gone full-time on beb.domains after 6 years of Meta engineering!

We have a BEB 2.0 announcement soon with our plans to evolve the protocol, here's a sneak peek for now 👀

Good insight into the mind of Elon around the Twitter deal, the full interview without any biased editing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRkcLYbvApU

welcome!