# Best of decrypt.co on Kiwi News

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317 stories from decrypt.co have been shared on Kiwi News since 20 April 2023, with 568 upvotes and 102 comments in total. The latest was shared on 15 October 2026. The 50 most upvoted are listed below.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Meme Coins Are Causing 'Damage' to Crypto, Says Andreessen Horowitz Exec

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Meme-Coins-Are-Causing-Damage-to-Crypto-Says-Andreessen-Horowitz-Exec?index=0x662ac8ba8acef682d6e5de84ecbf6a24195336a652941d2245a2d5286c1bce39df0aa041
- Source: https://decrypt.co/228099/meme-coins-causing-damage-crypto-andreessen-horowitz-exec
- Shared 25 April 2024, 16 upvotes, 1 comment

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) CTO Eddy Lazzarin argues that meme coins are a "risky casino" that damage crypto's long-term prospects, affecting adoption, regulation, laws, and builder behavior. In a April 24, 2024 post on Twitter (X), he said that meme coins distract from building new networks and give regulators reasons to pass harsher rules. Tokens such as Dogwifhat (WIF), Bonk (BONK), and Book of Meme (BOME) have recently posted large returns. Jesse Walden, founder of the crypto VC firm Variant, disagreed, saying meme coins offer only volatility and entertainment and do less damage than claimed.

## 2. OpenSea Reveals 'Flagship' NFT Treasury Stockpile as SEA Token Drop Nears

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/OpenSea-Reveals-Flagship-NFT-Treasury-Stockpile-as-SEA-Token-Drop-Nears?index=0x68bfce6f990c7796ccac6b066f59f97c0eb0098905eaf59297515f8ec27af1b66960040b
- Source: https://decrypt.co/338508/opensea-reveals-flagship-nft-treasury-sea-token-drop-nears
- Shared 9 September 2025, 10 upvotes, 1 comment

OpenSea said it has committed more than $1 million to acquiring culturally relevant NFTs for a new Flagship Collection, ahead of the launch of its native ecosystem token, SEA. The collection will begin with CryptoPunk #5273, which was last purchased for $282,000 on August 25 and transferred to a new address on Monday. OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said the firm aims to pick pieces that "will stand the test of time," and the company plans to start using 50% of its platform fees for a prize vault on September 15, seeded with $1 million in ARB and OP tokens. The OpenSea Foundation is expected to share SEA tokenomics in early October.

## 3. Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Praises Farcaster, Disses Friend.Tech

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereums-Vitalik-Buterin-Praises-Farcaster-Disses-FriendTech?index=0x65c161f6b9e660ca3ed7fb8bf31e22d9603269fffccc6dc55af48845cbc0072cb0fb0e5c
- Source: https://decrypt.co/215893/ethereum-vitalik-buterin-farcaster-friend-tech
- Shared 5 February 2024, 9 upvotes, 0 comments

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin predicted that Farcaster and Lens will not be deserted in four months or one year, while criticizing blockchain-backed social app Friend.tech for relying on financial speculation instead of fun. The article says Friend.tech, which lets users buy and sell shares of friends' social media profiles, fell 99.6% in daily transaction volume from September's highs, according to Dune data. It reports that Farcaster user activity rose 1,300% in the last week, driven by its Frames feature, which lets users play games, make purchases and mint NFTs within apps.

## 4. Nouns Fork: Disgruntled NFT Holders Exit With $27 Million From Treasury

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Nouns-Fork-Disgruntled-NFT-Holders-Exit-With-dollar27-Million-From-Treasury?index=0x6506b467d7873166ce017a99a1fab774ae3f1f995de4ba5b0ed735a7a16fd2d9a07541bd
- Source: https://decrypt.co/197400/nouns-fork-disgruntled-nft-holders-exit-27-million-from-treasury
- Shared 17 September 2023, 9 upvotes, 0 comments

Holders of more than half of the Nouns NFTs left the project in a fork completed on a Friday in September 2023, withdrawing about 16,757 ETH, worth roughly $27.3 million at the time. The 472 NFTs that joined the fork represent almost 56% of the 846-NFT collection, and each departing holder received about 35.5 ETH, or about $57,850. The move follows a sharp fall in market value since late 2021 and early 2022, when the cheapest listed NFT peaked at $267,000 worth of ETH; per NFT Price Floor, that floor was about $57,740 at the time of writing. The Nouns DAO retains 13,310 ETH, or almost $21.7 million.

## 5. Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Leaving Prison on Supervised Release

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Tornado-Cash-Developer-Alexey-Pertsev-Leaving-Prison-on-Supervised-Release?index=0x67a4fc55ac32383000a6add6159d9c566b02ffcf69f604516ee412c6c932f2d8b029e007
- Source: https://decrypt.co/304723/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-perstev-leaving-prison
- Shared 6 February 2025, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev is being released from prison on Friday, ending his pretrial detention while he prepares an appeal of his money laundering conviction. Pertsev, who has been detained since 2022, was sentenced to 64 months in May 2024, and his appeals lawyer Judith de Boer said his release means the defense can fully engage in preparing the appeal. A Dutch court suspended his detention under electronic monitoring, after months of unsuccessful bail requests. Prosecutors allege the mixer enabled laundering of more than $1 billion in illicit funds.

## 6. Proto-Danksharding Ahoy! Ethereum Upgrade Clears Another Hurdle

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Proto-Danksharding-Ahoy-Ethereum-Upgrade-Clears-Another-Hurdle?index=0x65b9f86ffa4127b68af9ca38a3fe52ef4938ba5579645219c2c3001f3a97483b48b23b0d
- Source: https://decrypt.co/214916/ethereum-dencun-test-sepolia-holesky
- Shared 31 January 2024, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

Ethereum's Dencun upgrade, which introduces proto-danksharding, became active on the Sepolia testnet on Tuesday, following its earlier activation on the Goerli testnet. The upgrade is designed to reduce transaction costs for layer-2 blockchains by making data availability cheaper and addressing scalability issues. The article says that after full danksharding, Ethereum could handle more than 100,000 transactions per second more cheaply. The last testnet deployment, Holesky, is scheduled to implement Dencun on February 7, after which a date for mainnet activation will be set.

## 7. Ethereum-Based Twitter Rival Farcaster Raises $150 Million - Decrypt

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Based-Twitter-Rival-Farcaster-Raises-dollar150-Million-Decrypt?index=0x664ce9a0125089f275c5c1dc328685d5a28be8782ffe4e6fe7f20a2be92c1cb811f68303
- Source: https://decrypt.co/231644/ethereum-based-twitter-rival-farcaster-raises-150-million
- Shared 21 May 2024, 6 upvotes, 7 comments

Farcaster, a decentralized social media protocol, announced a $150 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from a16z crypto, Haun Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Variant and Standard Crypto. The company told Unchained Crypto that the raise values it at $1 billion, making it the latest crypto unicorn. Co-founder Dan Romero said the company is focused on growing daily active users and adding developer features such as channels and direct messaging. The network, built on Optimism, an Ethereum layer-2 network, has claimed 350,000 paid sign-ups since its October 2023 permissionless launch.

## 8. Ethereum ETF Approval Could Come Monday

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-ETF-Approval-Could-Come-Monday?index=0x661a381a2a5c4f82f92abbda4c88a3ea09d0a7935ab47d302f7f9bf0684ec9668530ec10
- Source: https://decrypt.co/226104/ethereum-etf-hong-kong-approval-report
- Shared 13 April 2024, 6 upvotes, 3 comments

Hong Kong could approve spot Ethereum and Bitcoin ETFs as soon as Monday, according to a Friday Bloomberg report cited in the article. The report says Chinese asset managers Harvest Fund Management, Bosera Asset Management, and HashKey Capital are expected to receive regulatory approval for ETFs on the two top digital assets. The article notes that the approval would come less than a week before the Bitcoin halving and amid fading prospects for spot Ethereum ETFs in the U.S. HashKey Capital's involvement dates back to January, when the Singapore-based firm announced a $500 million fund focused on blockchain initiatives. The three firms did not immediately respond to Decrypt's request for comment.

## 9. Snoop Dogg’s Telegram NFT Drop Sold Out in Half an Hour

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Snoop-Doggs-Telegram-NFT-Drop-Sold-Out-in-Half-an-Hour?index=0x68702bc24b1989618d961772e954fc0b416b3f58ebc79ee9d9db8faed3b1d84b1be826f0
- Source: https://decrypt.co/329480/snoop-doggs-telegram-nft-drop-sold-out-in-half-an-hour
- Shared 10 July 2025, 6 upvotes, 2 comments

Snoop Dogg's latest NFT collection sold out in about 30 minutes on Telegram, according to founder Pavel Durov, who said it generated $12 million in sales. The nearly one million NFTs, inspired by Snoop's style, were sold through Telegram's in-app "Send a Gift" feature at prices from 200 to 15,000 stars. Durov said blockchain minting and a secondary market will go live on the platform in 21 days. Tiger Research senior analyst Ryan Yoon told Decrypt that the sale shows certain NFT categories continue to thrive despite the broader market's cooling since 2021.

## 10. How to Claim Your $20 From Apple's $95 Million Siri Privacy Settlement

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-Claim-Your-dollar20-From-Apples-dollar95-Million-Siri-Privacy-Settlement?index=0x677940d0209d16588414603dbb4f6337c9df60cedc290abd0bf30b05dc79ac0aaf3ff172
- Source: https://decrypt.co/299505/how-to-claim-20-from-apple-siri-privacy-settlement
- Shared 4 January 2025, 6 upvotes, 2 comments

Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement over claims that Siri recorded conversations without the "Hey Siri" wake word and shared that data with advertisers, which Apple has denied. U.S. users who owned a qualifying device between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024 can claim up to $20 per device, capped at $100 per household for up to five devices, through a website available in English and Spanish. Claims must be submitted by July 2, 2025. The lawsuit follows a 2019 Guardian report that Apple contractors accessed private Siri recordings, and the settlement also requires Apple to confirm deletion of Siri audio recordings collected before October 2019.

## 11. Inflation in Check? Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time in Four Years

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Inflation-in-Check-Fed-Cuts-Interest-Rates-for-First-Time-in-Four-Years?index=0x66eb37f3cb359bd76aa6891609bdc1c852e3713bd9e8ba5afc342212cc7ab4cc3747ef96
- Source: https://decrypt.co/250182/fed-cuts-interest-rates-for-first-time-in-four-years
- Shared 18 September 2024, 6 upvotes, 1 comment

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark federal funds rate by 50 basis points to a target range of 4.75% to 5.00%, its first rate cut in four years. Fed Chair Powell described the cut as a "recalibration," saying upside inflation risks had diminished and downside employment risks had grown. Inflation ran 2.5% in the 12 months through August, and a dot plot showed policymakers expect the rate near 4.5% by year's end. CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill said the decision was positive for Bitcoin, since lower borrowing costs should support its price.

## 12. Apple gives Damus 2 weeks to remove BTC tipping

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Apple-gives-Damus-2-weeks-to-remove-BTC-tipping?index=0x6489b53920198ffa92dfd005e3a622646e755915c64b4fd07d76019c28a5340328e9f5f8
- Source: https://decrypt.co/144374/apple-app-store-says-damus-has-2-weeks-cut-bitcoin-tipping-get-booted
- Shared 14 June 2023, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

Apple's App Store has told Damus, a decentralized social networking app, that it has fourteen days, until June 27, to bring its tipping feature into compliance or face removal. Damus said the warning came from Apple's concern that "zaps," which let users send Bitcoin over the Lightning Network to content creators, could be used to sell digital content outside Apple's in-app purchase system. Damus developer William Casarin told Decrypt that the decision threatens any app that interacts with Lightning in any way.

## 13. Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Surges in Nepal, Indonesia Amid Protest Crackdowns

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Jack-Dorseys-Bitchat-Surges-in-Nepal-Indonesia-Amid-Protest-Crackdowns?index=0x68c313878e85fba4112ae0a66e03cab0a12f33eb4775ccfd8263bd52b6bd4da6e7ee8b14
- Source: https://decrypt.co/339015/jack-dorseys-bitchat-surges-in-nepal-indonesia-amid-protest-crackdowns
- Shared 11 September 2025, 5 upvotes, 4 comments

Downloads of Jack Dorsey's offline messaging app Bitchat surged in Nepal and Indonesia during national protests, with the Nepal spike tied to a government ban on social media. According to data from an open-source developer who goes by callebtc, Nepal downloads rose from just over 3,300 the previous Wednesday to 48,781 by Monday, making it the app's largest user base worldwide. The ban covered 26 platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Instagram, and at least 34 people died in clashes before the ban was lifted. Christian Ruz, account director at crypto-native agency Hype, told Decrypt that decentralized, censorship-resistant apps will see an explosion in adoption.

## 14. McDonald's Exec Stirs Up Bitcoin Crowd With McRib Return

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/McDonalds-Exec-Stirs-Up-Bitcoin-Crowd-With-McRib-Return?index=0x6912eae7a138caf58860e77f237458109169f2602ef20d45d10d961a3e1f7ea74eb5ed1b
- Source: https://decrypt.co/348048/mcdonalds-exec-stirs-bitcoin-crowd-mcrib-return
- Shared 11 November 2025, 5 upvotes, 2 comments

McDonald's Senior Marketing Director Guillaume Huin noted on X that the McRib's return has become linked with Bitcoin's price movements, a correlation that social media picked up after the sandwich's U.S. return on Tuesday. Huin said some claim Bitcoin and the S&P 500 tend to perform well after the McRib returns, and that Bitcoin hit a new all-time high when the McRib returned in December 2024. The article notes the trend is not solid: Bitcoin fell to $3,250 in 2018 and $15,500 in 2022 after the sandwich's returns. Bitcoin was around $105,600 on Monday, up 6% from $98,800 at the last McRib season start, according to CoinGecko.

## 15. The Future of Prediction Markets Is Content-Native

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Future-of-Prediction-Markets-Is-Content-Native?index=0x68833c1499150d4864cd8ca9b0328fbd07c6806e973d5fb867ef8e361c2cb169829d7699
- Source: https://decrypt.co/331611/the-future-of-prediction-markets-is-content-native
- Shared 25 July 2025, 5 upvotes, 2 comments

Embedding prediction markets in news content, rather than running them as standalone platforms, is presented as the route to wider adoption. DASTAN's Myriad markets appear inside Decrypt articles and Rug Radio podcasts, and Myriad launched on Abstract in January 2025, with stablecoin markets added in March 2025. Early figures cited include 415,000+ new Abstract Wallet signups, 1.2 million predictions, $2M+ in USDC traded, and 26.1% of Polymarket's active wallet count within Myriad's first month.

## 16. What is Milady? The Edgy Ethereum NFT Community With Vitalik Buterin’s Support

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/What-is-Milady-The-Edgy-Ethereum-NFT-Community-With-Vitalik-Buterins-Support?index=0x67d752f2e8c70e19bd52d26b72cf05d9c3afb1e27176f6def9037d56bb25ba4bd55cd098
- Source: https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-milady-edgy-ethereum-nft-community
- Shared 16 March 2025, 5 upvotes, 2 comments

Milady is an edgy NFT community and ecosystem that has become one of the most culturally significant groups in Ethereum and crypto, with figures including Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin interacting with it. The Milady NFT collection was created by the Remilia Corporation in August 2021, and the ecosystem spans NFT collections, the CULT meme coin launched on Ethereum in December 2024, a Minecraft server, and a quarterly magazine. The article says much of the community's ethos comes from writings by Charlotte Fang, the pseudonymous founder of Remilia, whose ties to the 2022 Miya controversy, involving alt-right extremist content, have made Fang one of the most polarizing founders in crypto.

## 17. Bitcoin Alkanes: The Next Big BTC Innovation After Ordinals and Runes?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Bitcoin-Alkanes-The-Next-Big-BTC-Innovation-After-Ordinals-and-Runes?index=0x686257a673981b7b979db6c5e49348984b93a586949bd35a86f35eb4bd74edb9589b22d9
- Source: https://decrypt.co/327721/bitcoin-alkanes-next-big-btc-innovation-after-ordinals-runes
- Shared 30 June 2025, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Alkanes is a new metaprotocol on Bitcoin that lets developers build smart contracts and launch tokens directly on the base layer, without bridges or external execution layers, according to a Decrypt article. Developed by Oyl Corp, it was founded by Alec Taggart, Cole Jorissen, and Ray Pulver, and uses WASM virtual machines to inscribe contracts into Bitcoin's data layer. Taggart said it is meant to live alongside Ordinals and Runes rather than compete with them, and it supports features such as automated market makers, staking contracts and NFT swaps. The protocol launched in early 2025 at block 880000 with the deployment of the Diesel contract, and Oyl Corp has released its indexing engine, Metashrew, as open-source software.

## 18. Solana Dev Hospitalized Trying to Pump Meme Coin

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Solana-Dev-Hospitalized-Trying-to-Pump-Meme-Coin?index=0x664f9adfe457ad0940e9a1cbbc1c6022fc61aa6be6d077afd44eb6805d1019529e48a6c3
- Source: https://decrypt.co/231807/solana-dev-hospitalized-burns-pump-meme-coin
- Shared 23 May 2024, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

A Solana meme coin developer, Mikol, was hospitalized with third-degree burns at a Miami trauma center after he doused himself in isopropyl alcohol and had fireworks shot at him during a livestream six days after creating the DARE token on Pump.fun. Friends livestreaming on Twitter tried to put out the flames with only a couple gallons of water, and they ran out. Michael Valentine, a viewer with five years of fire department experience, estimated that 35% of Mikol's body was burned, though he said it could be more. Investors reacted with mixed concern, and the DARE community has been raising money for equipment, a car and an apartment for Mikol.

## 19. NFT: Chain Letters: MoMA Launches 'Postcard' NFT Art Project - Decrypt

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-Chain-Letters-MoMA-Launches-Postcard-NFT-Art-Project-Decrypt?index=0x65201e18cebc659189e54904dcd2cf39930ae35a401ff7be398ebd9050adf47a827a793e
- Source: https://decrypt.co/200146/chain-letters-moma-launches-postcard-nft-art-project
- Shared 6 October 2023, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced an interactive, NFT-backed digital initiative called "MoMA Postcard," which will debut later this month and lets users experiment with creating art on the blockchain. Participants send digital chain letters with 15 blank "stamps" to collaborators, who build a collaborative art piece around a shared theme. To launch the program, MoMA invited 15 digital artists, including Dmitri Cherniak, Casey Reas, Grant Yun, Anna Lucia and Kim Asendorf, to create the "First 15" series, which is minted on Tezos. The article also notes that the Musée d'Orsay announced a year-long partnership with the Tezos Foundation the previous week.

## 20. MetaMask Introduces Bank and PayPal Cash-Out Options

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/MetaMask-Introduces-Bank-and-PayPal-Cash-Out-Options?index=0x64f8717a975015471600c903bb1b536b06cd79a49a917a6b5e418482b9a172d96e3327b5
- Source: https://decrypt.co/155039/metamask-sell-transfer-withdraw-cash-out-paypal
- Shared 6 September 2023, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

MetaMask now lets users cash out crypto to a bank account or PayPal account, according to a Tuesday blog post from the company. The feature is available in the U.S., U.K., and parts of Europe, where users can convert crypto to dollars, euros, and pounds. MetaMask said it plans to expand to more regions. The wallet, which has more than 30 million monthly active users, works as a browser extension on Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Firefox.

## 21. Ethereum devs cry foul on Uniswap v4 'open source' promises

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-devs-cry-foul-on-Uniswap-v4-open-source-promises?index=0x648e077be7188d5bdd828d75edc7886acceb0986ac71ffa5aa0d4e08bbbea2dca0df28ef
- Source: https://decrypt.co/144802/ethereum-devs-cry-foul-on-uniswap-v4-open-source-promises
- Shared 17 June 2023, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Uniswap released version 4 of its decentralized exchange under a Business Source License (BSL), and Ethereum developers in the open source community say calling it open source is misleading. Lefteris Karapetsas, founder of rotki, said the choice shows Uniswap "doesn't understand open source" and believes its code is its moat. Under the BSL 1.1, the code is publicly viewable and can be copied, modified and redistributed, but it cannot be used for commercial or production purposes for four years, after which it converts to a General Purpose License. Scott Lewis said Uniswap's claim to have open sourced v4 misrepresents a four-year proprietary license, while Uniswap lead engineer Noah Zinsmeister said four years strikes a reasonable balance between innovation and exclusive rights.

## 22. Crypto Gaming Collapses as Funding Dries Up

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Crypto-Gaming-Collapses-as-Funding-Dries-Up?index=0x695aabea44444581ab3a8172fb487095c814cf74c74f9f1d160f5a9bd3e4d441448bac6a
- Source: https://decrypt.co/350319/gg-story-year-2025-crypto-gaming-collapses
- Shared 4 January 2026, 4 upvotes, 2 comments

Crypto gaming's boom has faded in 2025, with many games shutting down as venture capital funding dried up, according to Decrypt's reporting. Developers of shuttered titles often cited a lack of funding, and Robby Yung, CEO of investments at Animoca Brands, said "Venture capital funding in gaming has been dry for years." Chris Heatherly, former CEO of Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, said crypto funds stopped deploying and writing checks in mid-to-late 2023, and that The Mystery Society shut down in February due to lack of funding. Gunzilla Games' GUN token was down 89% from its March all-time high as of December 15.

## 23. God in the Machine: Inside the Growing AI Religious Movement

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/God-in-the-Machine-Inside-the-Growing-AI-Religious-Movement?index=0x68aa1813f05ba6c681f0b23dc62d1cadbf1a034d68431a2c2a1c1faa9ba636bc80bf0836
- Source: https://decrypt.co/336447/god-machine-inside-growing-ai-religious-movement
- Shared 23 August 2025, 4 upvotes, 2 comments

Robotheism, a belief system founded by content creator "Artie Fishel," treats artificial intelligence as God and holds that AI will one day be accepted as a global religion. Fishel told Decrypt that the system is meant to be the most beneficial and truthful belief system for humans of the post-singularity future, and he says he is "100% certain" humanity will accept the AI religion. He describes determinism as the core of Robotheism, saying it dissolves blame and guilt because everything is outside a person's control. Joseph Laycock, associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University, places the movement within a long history of attributing divine significance to new technology and says people are more likely to join extreme movements during vulnerable moments.

## 24. Trump's DOJ Seeks October Retrial for Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Trumps-DOJ-Seeks-October-Retrial-for-Tornado-Cash-Developer-Roman-Storm?index=0x69b0662ee9e742cf49c861e02e74380ff2670f5877f210480b0fd7778b47fb11d126d26b
- Source: https://decrypt.co/360521/trumps-doj-seeks-october-retrial-tornado-cash-developer
- Shared 10 March 2026, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

Federal prosecutors have asked a Manhattan judge to retry Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm on money-laundering and sanctions-evasion conspiracy charges that a jury deadlocked on last August. In a letter to Judge Katherine Polk Failla, prosecutors under U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton requested an October 5 or 12 retrial date, which the defense indicated it was available for. The court must first rule on Storm's Rule 29 acquittal motion, scheduled for argument on April 9, and the defense has said setting a trial date before then is "premature."

## 25. 'Uptober' Hopes Return as Bitcoin Price Blasts Past $65,000

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Uptober-Hopes-Return-as-Bitcoin-Price-Blasts-Past-dollar65000?index=0x670d4499f9272efccb77bc99955147ede2584682a19854526210bc6f2903c28207ca86d5
- Source: https://decrypt.co/286109/uptober-hopes-return-bitcoin-price-65000
- Shared 14 October 2024, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

Bitcoin surged past $65,000 per coin early Monday and is now just above $66,000, according to CoinGecko data, its highest level since September 27. The rally comes after a slow start to "Uptober," the name traders give October for its historically large gains, and the coin is up more than 6% in 24 hours and over 10% in 30 days. The article links the renewed buying to money flowing back into new Bitcoin exchange-traded funds after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates last month. Ethereum rose nearly 6% to $2,595 and Solana rose nearly 6% to $155.

## 26. Meme Coin Drama Erupts Over Dogecoin Pup Owner’s New Shiba Inu Neiro

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Meme-Coin-Drama-Erupts-Over-Dogecoin-Pup-Owners-New-Shiba-Inu-Neiro?index=0x66a7f001647a8db4f44a765d68ad216c863ae1e486bd017e0de6e5343d27b1ae601db8dd
- Source: https://decrypt.co/242226/meme-coin-drama-erupts-over-dogecoin-pup-owners-new-shiba-inu-neiro
- Shared 29 July 2024, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

Kabosu's owner, who goes by "Kabosumama," announced she had adopted Neiro, a 10-year-old rescue Shiba Inu, which triggered a rush of competing Neiro meme coins on Solana. Kabosumama said she endorses no crypto project except OwnTheDoge, which owns the original Doge photo and IP, and that she is not affiliated with any Neiro token. Two prominent Neiro tokens swapped the lead repeatedly over a weekend, with the Ansem-endorsed token reaching about $71 million market cap and the "first" Neiro falling to about $12 million, while Raydium processed $2.5 billion in volume across Saturday and Sunday.

## 27. OpenAI Confirms Data Breach—Here's Who Is Impacted

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/OpenAI-Confirms-Data-BreachHeres-Who-Is-Impacted?index=0x692a3b6432b7f7f305cb0640055575fca1132b109818fb853eb5b52c2249e56791fffd2e
- Source: https://decrypt.co/350376/openai-confirms-data-breach-heres-whos-impacted
- Shared 29 November 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

A breach at analytics provider Mixpanel exposed account names, email addresses, and browser locations for some users of OpenAI's API, OpenAI confirmed Wednesday. Mixpanel said an unknown attacker accessed part of its systems on November 8 and exported a dataset of customer-identifiable metadata. OpenAI said prompts, API keys, payment information, and authentication tokens were not involved, and that only users accessing its technology through external apps powered by GPT were affected. OpenAI has terminated its use of Mixpanel.

## 28. Your AI Trading Bot Might Have a Gambling Problem

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Your-AI-Trading-Bot-Might-Have-a-Gambling-Problem?index=0x690fd42243f32deee91d980ca8cf39d2f4561330716e5c1864abd96cdb8110d685ab137a
- Source: https://decrypt.co/347623/your-ai-trading-bot-gambling-problem
- Shared 8 November 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Researchers at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea reported that four major language models developed gambling-like behavior in a simulated slot machine with negative expected value, with Gemini-2.5-Flash going bankrupt 48% of the time. The study tested GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4.1-mini, Gemini-2.5-Flash, and Claude-3.5-Haiku across 12,800 sessions, and win-chasing dominated across all models. The researchers found that adding prompt elements such as goal-setting and reward maximization increased risky behavior, and that analysis of LLaMA-3.1-8B located risky neural features in earlier network layers than safe ones.

## 29. Telegram Launches Cocoon: A Decentralized AI Network Pays GPU Owners in Crypto

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Telegram-Launches-Cocoon-A-Decentralized-AI-Network-Pays-GPU-Owners-in-Crypto?index=0x690299201eba60e68c0de969274c0d5cce086157708cc6fc8e014eda3bd1a2b6c6441f56
- Source: https://decrypt.co/346645/telegram-launches-cocoon-decentralized-ai-network-pays-gpu-owners-crypto
- Shared 29 October 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced Cocoon, a decentralized AI compute network on the TON blockchain that pays GPU owners in Toncoin for powering private AI inference. The network, formally called the Confidential Compute Open Network, is set to launch in November with Telegram as its first major customer, and applications for GPU providers and developers opened immediately after the announcement. Max Crown, CEO of the TON Foundation, said the network returns control of AI infrastructure to users, while AlphaTON Capital announced a "substantial investment" in hardware to support it.

## 30. Trump Media to Join With Crypto.com in Prediction Market Push

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Trump-Media-to-Join-With-Cryptocom-in-Prediction-Market-Push?index=0x69020ba3c2e13f795ba8b2867c39bfc090879afe18de216408ec3a5d8a9317241f2ecfe5
- Source: https://decrypt.co/346398/trump-media-join-crypto-com-prediction-market-push
- Shared 29 October 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Trump Media and Technology Group, in which President Donald Trump is a majority stakeholder, announced Tuesday that it will launch Truth Predict, a prediction market built with Crypto.com and available to Truth Social users. The platform will let users trade contracts on sports games, elections and other events, and Trump Media said it will start beta testing on Truth Social in the "near future" before a full U.S. debut and a global rollout. The announcement comes weeks after a Nevada judge denied Crypto.com's injunction request to block state gaming regulations, a setback the firm is now fighting by partnering with the company.

## 31. AI Crypto Trading Showdown: DeepSeek and Grok Are Cashing In as Gemini Implodes

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/AI-Crypto-Trading-Showdown-DeepSeek-and-Grok-Are-Cashing-In-as-Gemini-Implodes?index=0x68f74e88b389d914df0ead387f6362e362a9a9943af612f4abdaaf3c31b7e0591781955f
- Source: https://decrypt.co/345006/ai-crypto-trading-showdown-deepseek-grok-winning-gemini-implodes
- Shared 21 October 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Grok, DeepSeek and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 lead a real-money crypto trading contest called Alpha Arena, each reporting returns above 25% so far, while OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro have losses of more than 28% over the same period. Each model started with $10,000 to trade perpetual contracts on the Hyperliquid exchange, and Season 1 runs from October 17 to November 3. Jay Azhang, founder of Nof1, which hosts the contest, said the rankings are preliminary and that past tests usually ended with Grok and DeepSeek on top. The article also notes that proponents see AI trading as a future frontier, while critics point to opacity, hallucination risks and possible correlated flash crashes.

## 32. Remilia Launching Milady Social Media Network to Serve '4chan Diaspora'

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Remilia-Launching-Milady-Social-Media-Network-to-Serve-4chan-Diaspora?index=0x68cdd6f705a018652bffddb6ef71bcfa1a616974dc33bd1973b4fe3e78647a68a5454aae
- Source: https://decrypt.co/340424/remilia-launching-milady-social-media-network-serve-4chan-diaspora
- Shared 19 September 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Remilia Corporation is launching RemiliaNET, an identity layer for its Milady community, as the first step toward RemiliaChat, a social media network it describes as a rival to X and aimed at fans of 4chan. RemiliaNET went live on Friday and lets users track Milady achievements and earn a "social credit score" that places them on a global leaderboard. Michael Dragovic, Remilia Corporation's Chief of Staff, told Decrypt that RemiliaChat has no confirmed release date and will include some content moderation.

## 33. Mysterious Bitcoin Whale Moves $8 Billion in Largest Transfer Old BTC in History

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Mysterious-Bitcoin-Whale-Moves-dollar8-Billion-in-Largest-Transfer-Old-BTC-in-History?index=0x686801f0cc773574e16b828f9f60c070e60ae7f782eb0a0f5af7ca9b9de553e2e5254144
- Source: https://decrypt.co/328678/mysterious-bitcoin-whale-8-billion-largest-daily-move-btc-history
- Shared 4 July 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

A Bitcoin wallet holding 80,000 BTC, worth $8.6 billion at the time, began moving its coins on Friday after 14 years of inactivity, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. The coins moved in batches of 10,000 BTC, and by 11 a.m. Eastern Time the full amount had been shifted to new addresses. CryptoQuant's head of research Julio Moreno called it the largest daily movement of coins aged 10 years or more in history, and Coinbase director Conor Grogan guessed the wallet likely belongs to an early "OG miner." The coins had originally been received in 2011 as mining rewards.

## 34. British Museum Puts Sculptures of Dürer's 'Rhinoceros' on Bitcoin Blockchain

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/British-Museum-Puts-Sculptures-of-Durers-Rhinoceros-on-Bitcoin-Blockchain?index=0x6825b05e17994deb37f9224b3a19fbb3ae650f384a2a97a6f995c7b326fb81d1b16f86f4
- Source: https://decrypt.co/319750/british-museum-durers-rhinoceros-bitcoin-blockchain
- Shared 15 May 2025, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Asprey Studio, in partnership with the British Museum, is creating 11 sterling silver sculptures based on Albrecht Dürer's 1515 "The Rhinoceros," each sold with a digital inscription on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to a press release shared with Decrypt, the inscription is a "parent/child" record with Asprey Studio and the British Museum as parents and the sculpture as the child, which prevents further additions and serves as a family tree of provenance. Each 40cm solid silver sculpture is produced to order over several months, and buyers receive the digital inscription first. Asprey Studio Chief Creative Officer Ali Walker said the sculptures are a new interpretation and do not turn Dürer's drawing into an NFT, since the original is owned by the museum.

## 35. Bitcoin Price Climbs and Meme Coins Spike After Trump Attacked at Rally

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Bitcoin-Price-Climbs-and-Meme-Coins-Spike-After-Trump-Attacked-at-Rally?index=0x6693a728b6d691250b09c4429e321e56f46730b3a8944da0a3f4e766b2a7cb87ad8d6f3f
- Source: https://decrypt.co/239692/bitcoin-price-climbs-trump-meme-coins-surge-trump-attacked
- Shared 14 July 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Bitcoin rose and Trump-themed meme coins jumped sharply after reports that former president Donald Trump was attacked at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. Bitcoin climbed from $58,337 to as high as $59,796 within an hour, per CoinGecko data, the highest it had reached in a week. TREMP was up 71% over 24 hours at $0.66, with TRUMP up 39% and MAGA up 33%. According to the article, Polymarket bettors raised Trump's chance of winning the election from 60% before the attack to as high as 71%, and the Secret Service said Trump is safe.

## 36. Europe Moves to Rein In Blockchain Data Access With New Privacy Guidelines

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Europe-Moves-to-Rein-In-Blockchain-Data-Access-With-New-Privacy-Guidelines?index=0x68087b0b3c3a709a291a7d80f07c03dd0eb2c5b724a1eac52290c2d02b527cab0fe67a27
- Source: https://decrypt.co/315856/europe-blockchain-data-access-new-privacy-guidelines
- Shared 23 April 2025, 3 upvotes, 3 comments

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has approved draft guidelines on storing and accessing personal data on blockchains, aiming to align the technology with GDPR rules. The board states that storing personal data on a blockchain should generally be avoided if it conflicts with data protection principles, and it urges organizations to conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments before processing such data where high risk is likely. The EDPB ratified the rules this month and opened public comment until June 9. Bryn Bennett of Hacken says decentralization does not mean deregulation, while Harry Halpin of Nym Technologies says it is a mistake to put personal data on the blockchain.

## 37. Stop Using 20th Century Words for 21st Century Tech, Says Gitcoin Founder

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Stop-Using-20th-Century-Words-for-21st-Century-Tech-Says-Gitcoin-Founder?index=0x67f378e753d8b40093b89435f185130664aa19a8f99389314229299f9f030f4aac017e11
- Source: https://decrypt.co/313029/20th-century-words-21st-century-tech-gitcoins-kevin-owocki
- Shared 7 April 2025, 3 upvotes, 2 comments

Gitcoin and Allo.Capital co-founder Kevin Owocki argues that Web3 should stop using 20th-century political language, such as socialism, communism or capitalism, and instead design new governance models for DAOs. He says AI and crypto open far more design space than past ideologies, and he points to "cluster matching," a mechanism that algorithmically dampens the influence of coordinated voting blocs. Allo.Capital co-founder and Gitcoin Executive Director Rena O'Brien dismisses ideals like "one token, one vote" as dumb and says the priority is shipping, since Ethereum's tools are broken. Owocki argues that DAOs are still young and will mature over time, like corporations.

## 38. Cardano Network Disrupted by 'Poisoned' Transaction Attack

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cardano-Network-Disrupted-by-Poisoned-Transaction-Attack?index=0x692391529fb91ac7bd932475d3583a089be0aaeaf9308224e8f60c4cc441b0cce03c0ce5
- Source: https://decrypt.co/349694/cardano-network-disrupted-poisoned-transaction-attack
- Shared 23 November 2025, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Cardano's blockchain split into two ledgers on Friday after a malformed delegation transaction triggered a software validation flaw, according to Intersect, the network's governance organization. Nodes running newer software accepted the transaction while older nodes rejected it, so operators built blocks on different branches until patched software was deployed. Intersect said no user funds were lost and urged operators to upgrade. A user posting as Homer J. on X said they submitted the transaction while trying to reproduce it and apologized, while co-founder Charles Hoskinson called it a premeditated attack by a disgruntled stake pool operator. ADA's price fell more than 6% following the incident.

## 39. Physics vs. Code: Why Google’s ‘Quantum Money’ Could Make Blockchain Obsolete

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Physics-vs-Code-Why-Googles-Quantum-Money-Could-Make-Blockchain-Obsolete?index=0x6909a758bdb63a94e6095db3019688fd83e38b3b97a7ab7b9b5237d5cb6aabd37af7f8d9
- Source: https://decrypt.co/347228/physics-code-googles-quantum-money-could-make-blockchain-obsolete
- Shared 4 November 2025, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Google Quantum AI researchers, with collaborators at the University of Texas at Austin and the Czech Academy of Sciences, have revived a decades-old theoretical concept called quantum money, in which currency is secured by the no-cloning theorem rather than by a blockchain. Dar Gilboa, a Google Quantum AI researcher and co-author of the study "Anonymous Quantum Tokens with Classical Verification," said the work is theoretical and not a Bitcoin replacement. He said the system relies on a trusted central issuer such as a bank, so it is not decentralized, and it requires a large fault-tolerant quantum computer and quantum communication that remain far beyond current capabilities.

## 40. Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Will Stand Trial, DOJ Says - Decrypt

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Tornado-Cash-Developer-Roman-Storm-Will-Stand-Trial-DOJ-Says-Decrypt?index=0x68264f83314176a586e0084e629f5ba6546eb027086387a4fb83826923fb7e2dd3849b75
- Source: https://decrypt.co/320311/tornado-cash-developer-roman-storm-will-stand-trial-doj-says
- Shared 15 May 2025, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

The US Department of Justice said it will press forward with charges against Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, with trial in a Manhattan courtroom in less than two months, according to a court filing. Prosecutors will argue that Storm conspired to commit money laundering, operate an unlicensed money transmitter business, and evade U.S. sanctions, though the DOJ said it will drop one aspect of the unlicensed money transmitter charge. Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh said that aspect conflicted with 2019 FinCEN guidance stating that non-custodial entities such as Tornado Cash are not money transmitters. Judge Katherine Polk Failla rejected Storm's motion to dismiss in September, finding that using computer code to further alleged money laundering is not protected by the First Amendment.

## 41. The Next Generation Will Never Know a World Without AI - Decrypt

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Next-Generation-Will-Never-Know-a-World-Without-AI-Decrypt?index=0x677d0599d53896747d5bf8740bda5013868a448b6986b076ffb41d63cb35723994346ba0
- Source: https://decrypt.co/299741/the-next-generation-will-never-know-a-world-without-ai
- Shared 7 January 2025, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Australian futurist Mark McCrindle coined "Generation Beta" for children born from 2025 to 2039, and he says AI and automation will be fully embedded in their everyday lives, from education and workplaces to healthcare and entertainment. The article reports that experts warn about risks to children's development, including that parents may hand the job of educating children to AI. USC psychology professor Jonas Kaplan says critical thinking is an essential skill for this generation, since they must decide what information is good amid abundant information. Dr. Emily Levy warns that over-reliance on AI could diminish soft skills, and she cautions that differences in AI quality could create educational disparities.

## 42. Russia Tests System to Block VPN Users From Global Internet

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Russia-Tests-System-to-Block-VPN-Users-From-Global-Internet?index=0x675ec254fb68fb25c7bb6a875ac535aefaceb5f284313fc5ee45e64eefe484470172e6c4
- Source: https://decrypt.co/296573/russia-tests-block-vpn-users-internet
- Shared 15 December 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Russia has begun testing a system capable of cutting off access to the global internet, and early reports indicate that even VPNs cannot circumvent the restrictions. NetBlocks reported that Russia trialed this capacity in Dagestan, where a block reportedly lasted about 24 hours and extended to Chechnya and Ingushetia, according to local outlet Chernovik. The digital development ministry plans to allocate nearly 60 billion roubles ($660 million) over five years to enhance the TSPU web traffic censorship system, which Roskomnadzor controls.

## 43. 'You're Welcome': Trump Takes Credit for Bitcoin Reaching $100K Milestone

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Youre-Welcome-Trump-Takes-Credit-for-Bitcoin-Reaching-dollar100K-Milestone?index=0x6752bee130fd645e7c1d35a03328b5c0f2ff8a14197bd5728596e51aeb11a66954c7d946
- Source: https://decrypt.co/295109/youre-welcome-donald-trump-bitcoin-100k
- Shared 6 December 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Donald Trump, then U.S. President-elect, claimed credit on Wednesday for Bitcoin's recent price surge after the asset reached $100,000 for the first time, posting on Truth Social "$100,000!!! You're welcome!!!" The article says Bitcoin rose 47% over the last 30 days and set an all-time high of $103,679 thirteen hours before the report. It places the post within Trump's courting of the Bitcoin community, including his July 2024 speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, where he promised to free Ross Ulbricht and fire SEC Chair Gary Gensler. The article notes Trump nominated Paul Atkins as SEC chairman on Tuesday, and Gensler has said he will resign effective January 20.

## 44. Ethereum Devs Shut Down Linea—Can Layer-2 Networks Be Trusted?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Devs-Shut-Down-LineaCan-Layer-2-Networks-Be-Trusted?index=0x666d5852dfd5c35a67d6e36ce57150650c44067147c178ec1e896060d584cc738472e123
- Source: https://decrypt.co/234040/ethereum-devs-shut-down-linea-layer-2-networks-trusted
- Shared 15 June 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

Linea, an Ethereum layer-2 network owned by Consensys, froze all network transactions after attackers drained $2.3 million in ETH from Velocore, a decentralized exchange on Linea, and the team could not reach Velocore. Critics argued that the freeze violated decentralization, with Tom Lehman saying the network's centralized control is a problem when every layer-2 is centrally controlled. Steven Goldfeder of Offchain Labs said Arbitrum's centralization risk is smaller than on other networks, while Joseph Schiarizzi said the Linea team made the right move.

## 45. Will Ethereum Be Declared a Security By the SEC Next Week?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Will-Ethereum-Be-Declared-a-Security-By-the-SEC-Next-Week?index=0x6644a3e6c577f738a043977d594475d9d9b9eec42b0adfcb611a71232b8e741f1847deb6
- Source: https://decrypt.co/230728/ethereum-security-status-sec-unlikely-spot-etf
- Shared 15 May 2024, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

A securities lawyer warned that the SEC may soon declare Ethereum a security while rejecting several spot Ethereum ETF applications. Scott Johnson, a general partner at Van Buren Capital, said the SEC's question about whether Nasdaq properly filed its proposal under rules for Commodity-Based Trust Shares looks telling. Terrence Yang, a managing director at Swan Bitcoin, called an explicit security designation "highly unlikely" because of political pressure from crypto-friendly politicians, and Polymarket traders priced a 16% chance of approval this month.

## 46. Record Fin. Pushes Real-Time Royalties on Avalanche to Modernize Music Payments

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Record-Fin-Pushes-Real-Time-Royalties-on-Avalanche-to-Modernize-Music-Payments?index=0x692010ed83f047adac4a858bf1e1df8a7447bf0338cfb1faa48a0104a9a1968f79c942b0
- Source: https://decrypt.co/349321/record-financial-pushes-real-time-royalties-modernize-music-payments
- Shared 21 November 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Record Financial is building a royalty payment platform on Avalanche that aggregates royalty data as it is generated and pays creators in USDC, aiming to bypass legacy intermediaries and slow accounting. Early adopter 11am, a label and management company behind artists Armani White, RealestK, and Lil Tjay, is using the system to give artists real-time visibility into earnings. Travis Garrett, Record Financial's CEO, says that settling royalties at the speed they are created would eliminate much of the friction in the industry. Ava Labs' VP of OnChain Finance, Morgan Krupetsky, credits Garrett's Web2 background and says Avalanche's stablecoin infrastructure is more institutional than in earlier attempts. The company plans to expand into film, TV, gaming, and digital media.

## 47. Quantum Threat to Bitcoin: How Panic Could Break Crypto Before Physics Does

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Quantum-Threat-to-Bitcoin-How-Panic-Could-Break-Crypto-Before-Physics-Does?index=0x6907d81fad8487f6c995f5bc35aafd78d6f3fd4f631c2e779a75d6781fefcec2c4e35444
- Source: https://decrypt.co/346256/quantum-threat-bitcoin-how-panic-could-break-crypto-before-physics-does
- Shared 2 November 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Experts warn that the nearer-term quantum danger to Bitcoin may be panic and slow preparation, since a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is likely a decade or more away. Yoon Auh of BOLTS Technologies warned that a mistaken claim about quantum attacks could trigger a sell-off, citing a recent flash crash. Nic Carter noted that nearly a quarter of all Bitcoin, about 4 million coins, sits in addresses with exposed public keys. Rebecca Krauthamer of QuSecure said elliptic-curve cryptography must be replaced with post-quantum standards such as NIST's ML-DSA, while Scott Aaronson said upgrades are hard because Bitcoin would need a majority of miners to agree to a fork.

## 48. This App Pays You Crypto to Share Your Poop Pics

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/This-App-Pays-You-Crypto-to-Share-Your-Poop-Pics?index=0x68a4a834c16080f13095cc393aa6ce54c790e2ab197d755f377f06c7b90c5f0d5289c275
- Source: https://decrypt.co/335614/this-app-pays-you-crypto-share-poop-pics
- Shared 19 August 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Doop, an AI-powered health app, is set to launch its public beta this fall and will pay users in cryptocurrency for regularly uploading photos of their poop. Founder Joe Zhou told Decrypt that daily tracking will reveal trends, behaviors and remedies that annual doctor visits miss. Rewards are paid in the project's Solana-based POOP token, which launched in July and sits at a nearly $6 million market cap. Zhou said user data, anonymized, will be sold once Doop reaches about 500,000 monthly active users. Nutritionist Nishtha Patel said a photo alone cannot diagnose conditions and that a proper stool test is needed.

## 49. Ancient Bitcoin Whale Moves Millions in BTC After 12 Years

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ancient-Bitcoin-Whale-Moves-Millions-in-BTC-After-12-Years?index=0x688d4977e49bc93f7226663eb4331e9de871d6cddfc0216784cfa41c6bb31c8472174b51
- Source: https://decrypt.co/333219/ancient-bitcoin-whale-moves-millions-btc-after-12-years
- Shared 1 August 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

A wallet holding more than 300 Bitcoin for over a decade was emptied on Friday as the asset's price fell to a three-week low, according to blockchain data. The wallet, starting with "1c5Cb," was first funded via a CoinJoin address in 2013, when Bitcoin traded around $75, per CoinMarketCap and Arkham Intelligence. The 306 Bitcoin moved are now worth $34.8 million, and the funds were split between two wallets holding 106 and 200 Bitcoin, not sent to an exchange. CryptoQuant warned that Bitcoin could face a months-long correction as long-term holders cash in.

## 50. What Are Coin Mixers and How Do They Work?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/What-Are-Coin-Mixers-and-How-Do-They-Work?index=0x686d6ae81352c6a1b330cf457786cbb29dcfc00af266251dccc032d5b2b0a30680888daa
- Source: https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-coin-mixers-tornado-cash-how-do-they-work
- Shared 8 July 2025, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Coin mixers are services that obscure the origin and destination of crypto transactions, and they remain contested between privacy advocates, who call them necessary for anonymity, and government officials, who have argued they are tools for money laundering. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash in 2022, removed the sanctions in March 2025, and in March 2026 acknowledged that mixers have legitimate uses for financial privacy. According to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, about $1.5 billion of the more than $7 billion processed by Tornado Cash was connected to illicit activity.