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5 stories from dark.fi have been shared on Kiwi News since 21 February 2024, with 22 upvotes and 8 comments in total. The latest was shared on 13 May 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- Memetic warfare
The essay analyzes the memes and narratives of the crypto privacy sphere, framing DarkFi and lunarpunk as attempts to introduce new privacy-promoting viruses into the memeplex. It argues that the "anti-meme" aligns privacy with criminality, and that Monero's Yes Chad meme, Zcash's "Privacy is Normal" meme, and Phil Zimmermann's normcore approach to PGP all remain trapped in reactive or undifferentiated positions. It urges building tools for differentiated users, reviving cypherpunk's moral and political purpose, and emphasizing privacy's exceptional power over its normality.
- DarkFi App — First Major Alpha Release
DarkFi has released the alpha of its DarkFi App, its first user-facing release and first add-on to the planned super-app, an anonymous peer-to-peer chat called DarkIRC. The app runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android, with iPhone support promised for the next release. According to the article, the chat has no centralized servers, messages cannot be traced to their senders, and Tor is opt-in for network-level anonymity. The article also says Tor was previously the default but was unreliable for mobile users on poor connections, and that Nym support is experimental and disabled by default.
- The Coming Storm: A Digital Militia Blueprint
The article argues that crypto and privacy projects should build anonymous infrastructure, including AnonDAOs, anonymous markets and free information tools, as a "digital militia" to prepare for coming civil war and authoritarianism. It presents Wikileaks, Bank of England history and the Syrian civil war as examples, and it names DarkFi as decentralizing the AnonDAO process. It also urges developers to join and says non-devs should use the Agorism Hackers Study Guide to learn.
- Samourai Devs Arrested is a Wake Up Call for Crypto
The article, written by someone associated with the DarkFi project, argues that privacy projects that rely on doxxed teams or centralized infrastructure, and that ask users to "join our Discord," lack commitment to anonymity and should be dismissed. It cites the US state's money laundering charges against Samourai Wallet devs and the earlier case involving Tornado as evidence that the state is targeting anyone who challenges the status quo. The author calls for fully dark, anonymous ecosystems, and says DarkFi, which uses anonymous p2p chat and an anonymous DAO, will continue to thrive even if its developers are jailed.
- DarkFi Testnet v0.2 alpha
DarkFi has released its proof-of-work alpha testnet, moving the network from the proof-of-stake consensus used in its 2023 alpha testnet. The announcement says PoS allowed early validators' balances to shape the chain's power structure and made a fully anonymous token distribution difficult, while PoW enables that distribution, and DarkFi adopted RandomX, the mining algorithm used by Monero, to favor CPU mining. The release also includes native contracts for anonymous transfers, atomic swaps, token issuance and DAOs, plus P2P network upgrades such as DoS protections and hostlist filtering.