# @hellno.eth: timdaub.eth shuts down Kiwi News Telegram after years of community

Source: https://farcaster.xyz/hellno.eth/0xff929ce3
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/hellnoeth-timdaubeth-shuts-down-Kiwi-News-Telegram-after-years-of-community?index=0x68419870f13ae2e8f8a7a0cd6987eedda0672b35b7156ca6b7f5297c8f02c7ce04089390
Submitted by hellno.eth on 2025-06-05 UTC, 9 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

timdaub.eth shut down the Kiwi News Telegram group on a Thursday at 13:37 UTC+2 by posting "Retiring this chat…", after which write access was removed and hundreds of members could only read. The group had been used for years for price alerts, wedding RSVPs, and a honeymoon crowdsourced in Dogecoin. The article notes that some memes in the chat were a decade old.

## Article

On Thursday at 13:37 UTC+2 timdaub.eth lobbed a single line into the Kiwi News Telegram: “Retiring this chat…”.  Write access vanished.  Hundreds of crypto-addled devotees pounded “send,” watching bubbles evaporate in read-only purgatory.  In that instant, marriages, trading tips, and decade-old memes froze in amber while group members screamed silently behind screens.

For years that same thread had been their improbable monastery.  Price-alerts sat next to wedding RSVPs; someone once crowdsourced a honeymoon entirely in Dogecoin.  The absurd alchemy of late-night shitposting and dead-serious research made the channel sacred—an unregulated derivatives market of human emotion, all gift-wrapped in Telegram stickers.