# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 17 2023

Mon 24 to Sun 30 April 2023
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2023-W17

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 24 to Sun 30 April 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total. Most-shared sources: paulgraham.com.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Clocks-and-Causality-Ordering-Events-in-Distributed-Systems?index=0x644e29940c6bf20370f1da0ffae9441f9ee71966d103bf4820573be514a74ccfe05a56e9
- Source: https://www.exhypothesi.com/clocks-and-causality
- Submitted by tim, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

Logical clocks can produce timestamps that are reliably comparable, unlike conventional time-of-day timestamps, which can be undermined by clock drift and network delay assumptions. Lamport clocks use a single number and O(1) space, but they cannot deterministically order events with duplicate timestamps or tell whether two events are concurrent. Lamport origin clocks add the originating node id as a second sort key to resolve duplicate ordering, while vector clocks use an n-tuple with O(n) space so that concurrency can be detected by comparing entries. None of these clocks can order concurrent events in real time, so ordering happens after the fact.

## 2. Fix your sleep

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Fix-your-sleep?index=0x644e294afc4051d99b0cdb1ed51fd271bb54d97a88dbe2aaf43c0a881e00dc38b5407437
- Source: https://fixsleep.link
- Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

## 3. Inside Catalog’s Curation Strategy

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Inside-Catalogs-Curation-Strategy?index=0x644a2acb9f0e295859b5c74482e519ba1cd02e59aafd50eef3ccbcf9282950b41f89f613
- Source: https://www.decential.io/articles/inside-catalogs-curation-strategy-thats-hoping-to-keep-web3-music-from-being-lost-in-a-sea-of-noise
- Submitted by danfowler.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Curation is becoming more important as music releases multiply, and the web3 platform Catalog is decentralizing its selection process through curation cycles. The article reports that major labels account for only one of every 26 songs released today, and Dan Fowler notes that nearly 50% of the 196 million tracks and videos on streaming platforms were released since 2020. Athena Yasaman, Catalog's head of community and curation strategy, says ten-person curator cohorts bring on artists who are underrepresented on the platform, comparing the approach to choosing a party based on the DJ's taste.

## 4. web3 music in 2023: experiments, communities… and weirdness

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/web3-music-in-2023-experiments-communities-and-weirdness?index=0x644a2af7645b8826cb6b6507264fa4c5af115393dc8517db0d5a96364474e95dfe4d5e38
- Source: https://musically.com/2023/04/26/web3-music-in-2023-experiments-communities-and-weirdness
- Submitted by danfowler.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Speakers at a Music Ally NEXT web3 panel, moderated by Neume maintainer Dan Fowler, argued that the NFT downturn is a chance to recalibrate web3 music around real fan utility and sustainable community-building rather than quick drops. Charlotte Caleb and Katherine Bassett said artists should integrate web3 strategy into their careers, with Bassett noting that the labour involved in community work often outweighs the returns. Vaughn McKenzie-Landell said web3 has no single dominant format, and Bassett warned against adopting web2 metrics such as the number of collector wallets.

## 5. Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Web3Crypto-Why-Bother?index=0x6448fc0830dcb61e93b93b76763b48b6ad93a08ab2b81d8decaef5921d0c99cc83f01dfa
- Source: https://continuations.com/post/671863718643105792/web3crypto-why-bother
- Submitted by 🟣tldr.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 6. Schlep Blindness

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Schlep-Blindness?index=0x644952c7598478ff968fbaf1727e16a3d0f37030988ea3d8611e54a237f6dc000cb7e128
- Source: http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
- Submitted by @!188133, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Paul Graham argues that many good startup ideas go unnoticed because of "schlep blindness," an unconscious aversion to tedious, unpleasant work that keeps founders from seeing ideas involving painful tasks. He cites Stripe as the clearest example: for over a decade, many hackers who had processed online payments knew the process was painful, yet they chose to build recipe sites or local event aggregators instead of fixing payments. He adds that ambitious ideas face less competition because others are frightened off by their challenges, and that younger founders have an advantage because they underestimate both how much they can grow and how much they will need to.

## 7. Default Dead or Default Alive?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Default-Dead-or-Default-Alive?index=0x644e6d095999c65c577f661755b9f0323e5839e0deb046895eaee291e9474c791ca17211
- Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Paul Graham argues that founders should ask early whether their startup is default alive or default dead, because hiring too fast is the biggest killer of startups that raise money. He notes that half the founders he talks to don't know which they are, and that Trevor Blackwell has published a calculator to help find out. He advises treating fundraising only as plan A and always having a written plan B. He cites Airbnb, which waited four months after raising money at the end of Y Combinator before hiring its first employee.

## 8. Latest EIP Diffs - eips.wtf

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Latest-EIP-Diffs-eipswtf?index=0x644854c1071aacf00f6ba443a9a96de29acf5f4eb0975bb8915c65dba1a3b1634b933906
- Source: https://www.eips.wtf
- Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

This eips.wtf page tracks Ethereum Improvement Proposal activity, reporting that September 2026 had 103 proposal changes from 52 unique contributors, down 29.5% and 11.9% year over year from 146 changes and 59 contributors. The page lists 31 proposals in Last Call, including EIP-8325 through EIP-8330, which have a review date of October 19, 2026, and a set of Core proposals with a November 1, 2026 date, such as EIP-7928 (Block-Level Access Lists) and EIP-7732 (Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation). A recent-activity feed shows frequent updates to proposals such as EIP-8141 (Frame Transaction) and EIP-7906 (Transaction Assertions via State Diff Opcode).

## 9. Google Pushes Forward in Web3

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Google-Pushes-Forward-in-Web3?index=0x64495e3321180ceaec7ecae30ab4537b785c8102aa78261c06ee49736e4ecf5d176fbcb0
- Source: https://blockworks.co/news/google-cloud-web3-program
- Submitted by chrsmaral.eth, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## 10. wesbos / blue-sky-cli (Node.js)

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/wesbos-blue-sky-cli-Nodejs?index=0x6449842f8158674074d280484c9ec345e2bc3a4074780d0e822b40f35eac45749231b39f
- Source: https://github.com/wesbos/blue-sky-cli
- Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

This GitHub repository, wesbos/blue-sky-cli, is a Node.js command-line app for experimenting with the AT Protocol API used by Bluesky. The README says the app can post skeets, fetch a timeline in the CLI, and run as a bot that replies to mentions and follows of the incorrect handle. Setup involves creating a .env file with BSKY_USERNAME and a password variable, then running npm run dev. The repository lists 87 stars, 3 watching and 6 forks.

## 11. Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search results page

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Brave-Search-removes-last-remnant-of-Bing-from-search-results-page?index=0x644af4f75dc9d924853780735ed65994eca8881a8b2ada2ad3efa678943163daf036e0a7
- Source: https://brave.com/search-independence
- Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Brave Search now serves every web search result from its own index, having removed all search API calls to Bing, which previously supplied about 7% of query results. The company says the change reduces reliance on Big Tech, and it cites Microsoft's recent increase in Bing Search API pricing as a reason to act on concerns about the Bing service's continuity. Image and video results are not yet served from Brave's index, so those searches can be redirected to Bing or Google. Brave also plans to release a Brave Search API for developers and companies.

## 12. Startup Growth Calculator

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Startup-Growth-Calculator?index=0x644e446cdebbc482e2217760bff637b2f0724204103a649401a8c680dfea1a91fc43df84
- Source: https://growth.tlb.org
- Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 13. Building Psychological Attachment — Not Just Ownership — Into Web3

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Building-Psychological-Attachment-Not-Just-Ownership-Into-Web3?index=0x644b9c8411aa3968b508dc183f46e0186c404c752679f7a835ff979187c1a64549bf6269
- Source: https://li.substack.com/p/building-psychological-attachment
- Submitted by ccarella.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Psychological ownership, the feeling of "mineness" over a product, is presented as a missing ingredient for tokens and user-owned networks in web3, since giving users tokens alone does not make them feel like owners. Web2 examples include Spotify Wrapped and streaming users who stayed with an app after curating playlists, even when cheaper alternatives existed. Crypto projects often attract transactional, short-lived users, and a Nansen analysis cited found that 42% of DeFi yield farmers who entered a farm on its launch day exited within 24 hours.

## 14. Battling status traps in web2 social networks

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Battling-status-traps-in-web2-social-networks?index=0x644c438609ccbfc045a46260c16cec7b286aeeb3725774ed86df7a3767bb0aeb82736612
- Source: https://sriramk.com/battling-status
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 15. The SEC Comes for Bittrex

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-SEC-Comes-for-Bittrex?index=0x6448fc65bfd94b6bd1e2c4132a6eaa5d7c19a303bcfc1be0c8e95c5f64b7b021c896ce00
- Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-17/the-sec-comes-for-bittrex?leadSource=uverify+wall
- Submitted by 🟣tldr.eth, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Under US rules, operating a stock exchange requires registering with the SEC as a national stock exchange, which brings oversight and requires the exchange's rules to be published, transparent, and SEC-approved. Dark pools and alternative trading systems are not registered as exchanges but are still registered with the SEC and supervised by it. Brokers such as Robinhood, which let customers see prices and trade, differ from exchanges because they route orders to other venues, while broker-dealers and stock clearinghouses must also register. Basically any stock-exchange-like thing has to register with the SEC.

## 16. Coinbase responds to the SEC‘s Wells notice

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Coinbase-responds-to-the-SECs-Wells-notice?index=0x644b5c4c225f14d454cb9b8a9f7726dcac4dd710a1169c4a3cd9ebffac7a1906430110fb
- Source: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-responds-to-the-secs-wells-notice
- Submitted by tim, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## 17. Nathaniel Stern & Sasha Stiles

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Nathaniel-Stern-and-Sasha-Stiles?index=0x6446763120094922375f1fc6fd1ded0f7e97c2145508cd2b8038fac871ace0bff6ff96ab
- Source: https://www.artblocks.io/user/0xc21c0dda92c44e7bce70261903ec59eae7af8173
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 18. Traditional Publishing vs Self-Publishing

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Traditional-Publishing-vs-Self-Publishing?index=0x64497690d67388d6d96c490447e9b0b42754fdaaa17ea34f595d4e27a2b3a6fabe11dad4
- Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/sceneswithsimon/p/traditional-publishing-vs-self-publishing?r=3ptcv
- Submitted by tim, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Simon argues that traditional publishing is now one channel for building legitimacy and context for a story, not a reliable route to a living, and that writers should test many formats. He notes that most writers do not earn a living from book sales alone, that books can take two years from booking to sale by the publisher, and that US fiction sales are up year over year, with print outselling ebooks. He suggests options such as Kickstarter, Substack serialization, merchandise and translations, and concludes that "context matters."

## 19. Ledger Support for Rainbow

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ledger-Support-for-Rainbow?index=0x644652a6f7e34234cc9ca7cacacda6e5a44cafa2964cc9318c737d8967c5919bbb68fc88
- Source: https://twitter.com/rainbowdotme/status/1648748053405347840
- Submitted by chrsmaral.eth, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## 20. How tokens may fit into orgs

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-tokens-may-fit-into-orgs?index=0x6447c308a1566c75c0eb71ac6fa942905f1fe74972de080f7c6267f054f26c695f146c4e
- Source: https://a16zcrypto.com/content/article/beyond-tokenomics-tokenology
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 1 upvote, 0 comments