Top crypto stories of week 20, 2023
Mon 15 to Sun 21 May 2023
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 15 to Sun 21 May 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- 50 best sci-fi books of all time (surprisingly good list) (esquire.com)
This list of 50 science fiction books includes The Echo Wife, Mary Robinette Kowal's The Calculating Stars, John Scalzi's Redshirts, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and Carl Sagan's Contact. Entries describe plots and themes, such as Adina Giorno's alien reporting in Beautyland and Enoch Wallace's intergalactic rest stop in Clifford D. Simak's Way Station. Other titles include Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill, Fredric Brown's What Mad Universe, and Nnedi Okorafor's prequel to Who Fears Death. The excerpt cuts off partway through the list.
- Privacy-preserving Paymaster (ethglobal.com)
- Future Past - YouTube playlist of tech & design content from the 1960s and 70s (youtube.com)
- Do the weirdest thing that feels right (charliebecker.substack.com)
- WTF Happened in 1971? (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
- ERC-6551: The NFT Game-Changer 🎆 (metaversal.banklesshq.com)
ERC-6551, a new Ethereum token standard that launched on mainnet on May 7, 2023, lets ERC-721 NFTs act as their own smart contract accounts, able to own assets and interact with web3 apps. The standard deploys unique "token bound accounts" for each NFT through a permissionless registry, and a single NFT can own multiple such accounts. The article notes that original unwrapped CryptoPunks are not supported, while Wrapped Punks are. It also flags risks: fraud, such as a seller withdrawing ETH after a sale, and ownership cycles that can make assets permanently inaccessible.
- How An Obscure OTC-Traded Derivative From the 80's Took Over Crypto (blog.everstrike.io)
- Tornado Cash governance attack (twitter.com)
- The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI (techcrunch.com)
- Profiles are Live! (news.kiwistand.com)
- Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How (a16zcrypto.com)
- Purists and Tourists in Crypto (1confirmation.substack.com)
- group annotation server guinea pigs? (1997.webhistory.org)
- Turn any GameBoy into a secure offline cold wallet (gamewallet.gg)
- What should you do with your life? Directions and advice (guzey.com)
- On Becoming (gestalt.cafe)
- A novel account abstraction RPC endpoint for conditional inclusion of UserOps (blog.oplabs.co)
- Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist (noahpinion.blog)
- The Dream Machine (press.stripe.com)
- Don't overload Ethereum's consensus (vitalik.ca)