When we talk about decentralized social, we usually refer to a class of products or protocols that have decentralized characteristics and are related to social media. When we discuss how to build such products, we often consider how to use decentralized technologies or even blockchain to create them, and how to bring the benefits of decentralization and blockchain to social users.

当我们谈论去中心化社交时，通常指的是一类产品或协议，它们具有去中心化的特征，它们与社交有关。当我们谈论如何去建设这类产品时，通常思考的是如何用去中心化的技术甚至区块链技术打造产品，如何给社交用户带来去中心化和区块链能带来的好处。从这个角度思考问题虽然没错，但它更像是马斯洛的锤子：“如果你只有一把锤子，那么所有的东西看起来都像钉子。”去中心化是那个锤子，而社交产品是看上去像钉子的东西。

Every Friday, Farcaster is filled with a relaxed atmosphere. People greet each other with “Happy Friday” and “touch grass,” and even the cash cannon (a method for mass tipping) seems to be used more frequently on that day. It’s hard to sense this vibe on social media platforms on a Friday, but you can feel it in the office just before the end of the workday.

每到周五，Farcaster上就会洋溢着一种轻松的氛围。人们互相说“Happy Friday”，“touch grass”，就连那一天的cash cannon（一种批量打赏的方法）似乎也格外多。你很难在周五的社交媒体上感受到这种气氛，但你能在周五下班前的办公室感受到这种气氛。我知道一些人来Farcaster转了一圈，丢下一句“这和Twitter有什么区别”后转身离开。让我告诉你，当你理解Farcaster上周五的轻松氛围时，你就能知道Farcaster 与Twitter 的区别。

在上一轮熊市中，人们心中的疑惑是“区块链到底有没有用”，然后我们见到了Uniswap的力量,以及随之而来的DeFi的勃勃生机。“区块链到底有没有用”的问题得到了一个肯定的回答。

In the previous bear market cycle, the question in people's minds was “whether blockchain is useful at all,” and then we witnessed the power of Uniswap, along with the flourishing vitality of DeFi. The question was answered.

Interviewer: Hua Interviewee: Poly, a Controls Specialist, maintains multiple Distributed Control Systems (DCS's) and has worked with other five nine systems (99.999% uptime availability). X: @Polyd\_ 

比特币采用PoW共识，以太坊采用PoS共识；比特币是UTXO模型，以太坊是账户余额模型。这似乎是比特币和以太坊最大的不同，但也许，导致比特币和以太坊愈行愈远的，并不只是两者在这种“实体构造”上的不同，还有两者在“非实体理念”上的不同。

The biggest difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum seems to be "the former uses a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism and an unspent transaction output (UTXO) model, while the latter uses a proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism and an account/balance model". However, what drives them apart is not only these differences in their "physical construction" but also in their "non-physical philosophy".