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16 stories by @lefterisjp on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 15 January 2024, with 43 upvotes and 9 comments in total. The latest was shared on 9 September 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @LefterisJP: How will AI's radical abundance benefit everyone vs just big corps?
The author asks how the "radical abundance" promised by AI accelerationists, in which everyone shares in AI-driven wealth and finds meaning beyond work, could benefit all of humanity rather than being captured by a few large corporations. The post cites a podcast host, @tamaybes on the Hard Fork podcast, as an example of this view that AI will automate all jobs within 10 years. The author says the vision sounds appealing but seems to lack key details on how it would be implemented, and that under the current system where big corporations build AI and capture its rewards, a dystopian outcome seems the natural result. The post closes by asking for others' thoughts as AI replacing many jobs looks increasingly likely.
- @LefterisJP: The funding challenge for principled, aligned apps in web3
Lefteris, an ex core developer and builder of the app Rotki (@rotkiapp) since 2017, argues that the biggest limit facing aligned apps (open source, privacy-first, decentralized, self-hosted and non-capturable) is raw capacity, meaning funding and talent rather than ideas, demand or product-market fit. He says aligned apps build more slowly because they refuse to compromise on their values, and they are poor venture investments because their non-extractive design leaves nothing to extract. Without funding, these teams cannot iterate fast enough to respond to feedback and fall behind projects that cut corners. He notes that public goods funding attempts such as grants and retro PGF often fall short because of insufficient money, too many projects, or grifters draining the pool.
- @LefterisJP: Ethereum launched 11 years ago from a Berlin office
- @LefterisJP: Who cares about words anyway
- @LefterisJP: Why does MetaMask show Solana as first network choice?
- @LefterisJP: German crypto law draft forces CEXs to withhold 26.375% tax on sale
- @LefterisJP: ENS DAO proposal to transfer $500M treasury to foundation
- @LefterisJP: Justin Sun's bodyguards pushed EthCC attendees aside for video
- Reflections on OP RFG3 from Lefterist
- @LefterisJP: Rhysida released 5.4TB of data from Berlin government hack
- @LefterisJP: Gnosis Chain Etherscan explorer shutting down August 11th
- „I have some thoughts on the EF researchers conflict of interest“
The author argues that Ethereum Foundation (EF) researchers who guide protocol development should not accept six- or seven-figure compensation packages from protocols, since this is a clear conflict of interest that undermines credible neutrality. The post says compensation disclosure is necessary but insufficient, and that EF should pay its researchers well itself, noting that the EF has the money and that Protocol Guild receives millions through grant rounds. It calls for researchers to work either for the EF and the base protocol or for EigenLayer, not both, and extends the concern to other well-funded projects such as Uniswap and Paradigm, while stating that it is not claiming those specific cases are happening.
- "As a founder your role is NOT to build the thing"
- @LefterisJP: AWS outage exposes crypto's reliance on centralized cloud
- @LefterisJP: crypto accounting, data sovereignty, and LLM at dappcon
- Average crypto believooooor
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- "As a founder your role is NOT to build the thing"
- @LefterisJP: The funding challenge for principled, aligned apps in web3
- @LefterisJP: How will AI's radical abundance benefit everyone vs just big corps?
- @LefterisJP: Rhysida released 5.4TB of data from Berlin government hack
- @LefterisJP: Gnosis Chain Etherscan explorer shutting down August 11th