Top crypto stories of week 21, 2023
Mon 22 to Sun 28 May 2023
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 22 to Sun 28 May 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total. Most-shared sources: youtube.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- Kiwistand founder declares start of Kiwi News, Season 2 (warpcast.com)
- How the term "wallet" is psychologically limiting web3's growth potential (twitter.com)
- What Coinbase Isn't Telling You About Base (blec.report)
- farmer from 'It ain't much but it's honest work' meme dies after auto accident (outkick.com)
- How to trigger your designer friend (userinyerface.com)
- becoming yourself is a process of reduction (mindmine.substack.com)
The author argues that becoming yourself is a process of reduction: cutting out what does not activate or align with you concentrates energy and makes your power tangible, rather than adding more commitments. The writer describes shifting focus to writing, which led to better work and a stronger sense of self, and says that earlier busyness in engineering and other fields was a way of avoiding being seen as "just a writer" or "just an artist." Citing Rilke's letters on going inward, Steve Jobs on saying no, and Emerson, the piece concludes that saying no is an act of self-trust and that true power comes from focus and choice.
- Invictus (this one goes out to all the builders) (poetryfoundation.org)
- Paul Graham sharing the story behind his startups, YC & writing [Podcast] (open.spotify.com)
- Video of Mac giving kiwi to Sam Altman (youtube.com)
- "You're asking me to believe in sentient meat?" - short story,Terry Bisson (mit.edu)
- The Coming Conflagration: AI, Content, and Slanted Words (wysr.xyz)
Cameron argues that AI chat models let individuals shape media narratives on a national scale with little effort, and that readers should ask why they are being shown a given message. To illustrate, Cameron prompted GPT-4 with Web Browsing to summarize a CNN town hall featuring former President Donald Trump, then to write in the styles of Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson, saying the Carlson-style text took under 10 seconds of typing. Cameron also says AI licenses mainly help large tech companies and that Russia and China will develop less restrictive models regardless.
- Kiwi News Season 2 (hackmd.io)
- Evervault — Your existing data flows, but encrypted. (evervault.com)
Evervault is a marketing page for a card-data encryption and payments product set, which it says lets businesses collect, store, and forward card data without exposing raw data to their own infrastructure. The page claims this cuts PCI requirements by up to 95%, and that card encryption shrinks PCI scope while additional tools cover the remaining requirements. It describes modular components that are PSP-agnostic, so logic works across providers, and quotes Eli Block, Principal Engineer at Ramp, saying Evervault gives engineers the developer experience to ship and debug independently.
- Vivid — Unlock the full brightness of your MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR (getvivid.app)
Vivid is a utility that enables the extra brightness range usually reserved for HDR content on MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR screens, without overdriving the hardware. The article says it works the same way as editing HDR video and does not use low-level display hacks to push displays past safe limits. It quotes Apple's claim that Pro Display XDR can sustain 1000 nits across the full screen indefinitely. The article adds that macOS limits maximum brightness if a display gets too warm.
- Bypass any paywall (12ft.io)
- Ethereum addresses are the next hot commodity (telegra.ph)
Ethereum addresses with vanity prefixes or many zeroes are becoming tradable, according to a post by freeatnet. A short prefix like 0xC0FF33 can be generated on an M1 MacBook in about a day, while longer ones such as 0xC0FF3DA4 proved too hard to find locally, since difficulty grows roughly exponentially with length. Outsourcing to an address miner would reveal the private key, so the post describes asking a miner to find an address through contract deployment and then handing control to the buyer via a mutable proxy contract. 1inch proposes a version where ownership of the proxy is represented by an NFT that can be sold on any NFT marketplace.
- Password - TK (app.spinamp.xyz)
- Fight for privacy, non-bank-backed stable coins & porn stars in Ethereum unicorn (web3-trenches-podcast.simplecast.com)
- How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education (youtube.com)
- Green Pill Podcast - Solving Crypto Hacks with Taylor Monahan (podcasts.apple.com)
This podcast episode features Taylor Monahan, founder of MyEtherWallet and MyCrypto and a builder at Consensys on MetaMask, discussing why crypto hacks occur and whether the landscape can be improved to help people recover lost funds. The episode notes that $3.2 billion was lost to crypto hacks in 2022. Monahan spends much of her time investigating hacks, rug pulls and attack vectors, and the host Kevin explores the motivations behind attacks and their root causes. Topics include white hat ossification, beating the clock, scam prevention and real-world solutions.