# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 22 2023

Mon 29 May to Sun 4 June 2023
Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2023-W22

The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 29 May to Sun 4 June 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. ENS Data — the simplest way to get ENS records as JSON

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ENS-Data-the-simplest-way-to-get-ENS-records-as-JSON?index=0x6475ecb80597b4ff55d1c4994159668e3d11caa8592979d18c375df4097550bc75b88e0a
- Source: https://ensdata.net
- Submitted by pugson.eth, 10 upvotes, 0 comments

ENS Data is a free service that returns Ethereum Name Service text records for a wallet address or ENS name as JSON, with no API key required; a request is made by appending the address or name to ensdata.net. Emoji, subdomains and offchain names are supported, and reverse lookups from an address return its primary ENS and that name's records. The service also offers endpoints for avatars and content hashes, adds image URLs for NFT records, and can match addresses to Farcaster profiles or show ENS expiry dates through query parameters. Full records are cached for 72 hours, and only Ethereum Mainnet is currently supported.

## 2. Factors of decentralization of web3 protocols

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Factors-of-decentralization-of-web3-protocols?index=0x64783306fb3ba2321352fe21004e1b25616c2d09c012a8553a99db60a09396a4da4cc9d7
- Source: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/decentralization-factors-web3-protocols-tables
- Submitted by eatkiwi.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

This article proposes a more standardized understanding of decentralization for web3 protocols, dividing it into technical, economic, and legal types, each assessed through factors listed in two tables. It argues that decentralization limits gatekeeping power, lets web3 systems function like public infrastructure, and can reduce regulatory risk. Technical decentralization is described as challenging for blockchains but achievable relatively quickly for smart contract protocols by making them immutable. The article also says legal decentralization may negate the need to apply U.S. securities laws to a token once a system eliminates significant information asymmetries and reliance on the managerial efforts of others.

## 3. Kiwi News has a Farcaster account!

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Kiwi-News-has-a-Farcaster-account?index=0x64749483940bfe8b496423dde9e95d837daa27908edb6ba58124476f44b82d9f325ec57d
- Source: https://warpcast.com/kiwi
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

## 4. Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Geeks-MOPs-and-sociopaths-in-subculture-evolution?index=0x6474e964058d7edf086a0eadfc6bd1aece6118387523605a3c9454ebf4aed7a2db6ff0d2
- Source: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- Submitted by philipliao.eth, 8 upvotes, 0 comments

Subcultures have stopped working as a creative force, according to the author, because mass popularity brings in "muggles" who destroy them. The article describes a lifecycle in which a scene of creators and fanatics, or "geeks," attracts "mops," casual fans who dilute the culture, and then "sociopaths," who exploit the remaining social, cultural and monetary capital. It argues that geeks need some of the sociopaths' tactics, a stance the author calls "be slightly evil," and that the subcultural mode mostly ended around 2000.

## 5. Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Obvious-to-you-Amazing-to-others?index=0x6479c0b96e85acb17f5bbe9a3a94c050a20d8e425e9595b8830aae5a4aefabe049ee263b
- Source: https://sive.rs/obvious
- Submitted by rafig.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

The author argues that creators often judge their own ideas as obvious while others find them amazing, so they should share their work and let the audience decide. The piece describes the familiar experience of being stunned by someone else's work while feeling one's own ideas are ordinary. After receiving praise for an idea the writer considered nothing special, the writer concluded that everybody's ideas seem obvious to them, and cited John Coltrane and Richard Feynman as likely sharing that feeling. It also notes that hit songwriters often say their biggest hit was one they thought was not worth recording.

## 6. Presidential Candidates are finally embracing Bitcoin

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Presidential-Candidates-are-finally-embracing-Bitcoin?index=0x64748d9bf4bfd9ff032219a7681bc26030cd13069f18a64c1f50ca2b0429121f631880af
- Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/coinage/p/presidential-candidates-are-finally?r=npdv
- Submitted by ccarella.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Presidential candidates are increasingly taking public positions on Bitcoin, with opposition to a US central bank digital currency (CBDC) as a central theme. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy each gave nearly identical speeches at Bitcoin's largest conference, focusing on "free money" and "free speech" and criticizing a CBDC. The article cites Canada's Freedom Convoy, whose crowdfunding was blocked by a court, as an example of the fear that a government digital currency could be used to restrict citizens. It notes that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation that he claims would ban CBDCs in Florida, though legal experts are divided on its effect.

## 7. Why governments should use blockchains for their own spending

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-governments-should-use-blockchains-for-their-own-spending?index=0x6474e3dc99c5447550fdeb603c115f589e840b3390d196626b155a21d791225cd430d00f
- Source: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1663204528684933126
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

## 8. Rethink Digital Transactions with Account Abstraction

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Rethink-Digital-Transactions-with-Account-Abstraction?index=0x647a114a222e93b9c3fc8ea42d22341284a5f6f257f6f690d36a2b9ec276a913040a527e
- Source: https://usa.visa.com/solutions/crypto/rethink-digital-transactions-with-account-abstraction.html
- Submitted by nonlinear.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Visa's crypto research team presents Account Abstraction (AA) via ERC-4337 as a way to add programmable features to Ethereum user accounts without changing the blockchain protocol. The article explains that externally owned accounts controlled by private keys are rigid, while smart contract accounts can support features such as multi-factor authentication, recurring payments and custom rules. ERC-4337, proposed in 2021 by members of the Ethereum community including Vitalik Buterin, has had core components deployed on the Ethereum mainnet since March 2023. Visa says it tested the standard in two use cases by deploying Paymaster contracts, and notes the product is in development.

## 9. Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Visual-design-rules-you-can-safely-follow-every-time?index=0x6479b093bcac7f7ce2f8c0c6101e829c3919fd1685db9d114aeb9ed4d32c70a583b97a81
- Source: https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

Anthony Hobday presents a set of visual design rules that he says are safe to follow every time, while noting that designers may break them with good reason. The rules cover colour, such as using near-black and near-white instead of pure black and white and saturating neutrals with a small amount of the interface colour, as well as layout points like using 12-column horizontal grids and making horizontal button padding twice the vertical padding. Other guidance advises limiting designs to two typefaces at most and not mixing depth techniques, and it says shadows should be avoided in dark interfaces.

## 10. Coding Maxims

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Coding-Maxims?index=0x6477a2a979ec870981f14c3bc44081037699365180647bb7f19c0a876e3779a178f7f2d7
- Source: https://grin.io/coding-maxims
- Submitted by cypherr.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 11. 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/6-Harsh-Truths-That-Will-Make-You-a-Better-Person?index=0x6478db23ced40335f5a11e7ef11457f237913a5e39a83ffdb4e0d0bdae08201c29d196be
- Source: https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person
- Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

## 12. Coinbase CEO cites rising threat from China in fresh plea to US officials

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Coinbase-CEO-cites-rising-threat-from-China-in-fresh-plea-to-US-officials?index=0x6477819d2354d9b5b15adec7f68f7b385cf947431843d22f3638e5e26336be87b6162b02
- Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/232604/coinbase-ceo-cites-rising-threat-from-china-in-fresh-plea-to-us-officials
- Submitted by @fcdevtest01, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 13. NFL unable to collect $40m in owed licensing revenue post crypto market collapse

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFL-unable-to-collect-dollar40m-in-owed-licensing-revenue-post-crypto-market-collapse?index=0x647c536bd68cf867211a7f38ed753a02842457ae9664ce6a3ab5c8f255caa6504686d9b7
- Source: https://archive.is/DJA3H
- Submitted by lens.ahn.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

## 14. neume: project update - May 2023

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/neume-project-update-May-2023?index=0x64760f5f569fa9cbbf69a64a00da844a2378f3be06ecc43a22ce7b4b8b1279b9f8723974
- Source: https://neume.network/posts/project-update-may-2023
- Submitted by danfowler.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Neume's May 2023 update reports that most of the month went into building indexing capacity for Lens, with one third of its three-month Lens grant now complete. The team chose to start Lens indexing by crawling for audio files, which it estimates is about as fast as crawling for known frontends via onchain events (initial crawl 5-6 days), and better because it covers more area. Its Gitcoin round in the Open Source Software category is expected to add c.$600 in matching to c.$2,000 raised from donations, with allocation of those funds under discussion on the GitHub forum.

## 15. Intent-Based Architectures and Their Risks

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Intent-Based-Architectures-and-Their-Risks?index=0x647999063338a30cf9a2549c3e8141c783984adcb39a1d7384261ef1137669135e742fbd
- Source: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/06/intents
- Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

Intent-based designs on Ethereum, which specify a desired outcome rather than every execution step, could bring UX and efficiency gains but also risk centralising block production and entrenching rent-seeking middlemen. The article says that if intent execution is permissioned and the permissioned set is poorly chosen, migration out of the public mempool threatens to centralise block production. It notes that MEV-Boost remains the dominant block production method, and that a builder controlling a large share of order flow could produce most blocks and open a vector for censorship. The article also warns that reliance on trusted intermediaries raises barriers to entry and could let a single party extract rents.

## 16. A Longer History of Generative Art

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-Longer-History-of-Generative-Art?index=0x64749a8513a981c3409978fc1457730b4464bbaf6cb2c6fb466c0256cb87c08a728d75eb
- Source: https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/a-longer-history-of-generative-art
- Submitted by uncledavo.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## 17. A Podcast featuring Farcasters

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-Podcast-featuring-Farcasters?index=0x647996e7490640c9f37ff9e68f419a24209e931c2013721d3bb70e40365f5f35ab7ab8b7
- Source: https://www.farcasterhumans.com
- Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

A proposal for a podcast featuring people who use Farcaster, the decentralized social protocol, was posted on Warpcast on 4/15/23 by its host, who founded longviewlabs.co and wants to highlight individuals using the protocol. Commenters responded positively, with several suggesting the show could be a live, thread-based conversation in which listeners submit questions as casts and hosts answer as replies. One commenter said they would appear as a guest, and another suggested applying for funding through a proposal.

## 18. Sort by controversial

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Sort-by-controversial?index=0x647c740a84959d6e07f66757734a0af7883d3d3f63f2f89ee47158cffcc050aed3806cf3
- Source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial
- Submitted by ccarella.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

This fiction, which its author labels as such, describes a small ad startup's neural network built to predict Reddit controversy. It generated a deliberately divisive statement about a company design choice, and the resulting five-hour argument led founder Brad to fire coworkers David and Shiri. The next day, Brad, Blake and the narrator decided to pitch the tool to the Pentagon as a superweapon. A DARPA colonel asked them to demonstrate it on Mozambique's subreddit, where they ran a statement accusing the Prime Minister of disrespecting Islam. David and Shiri then sued for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination.

## 19. The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Spectacular-Collapse-of-CryptoKitties?index=0x6474ad346a325401cfd686c965fcc3d95c23f1c684c70450f79155a814ab08eb7c7fe858
- Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cryptokitties
- Submitted by lens.ahn.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

CryptoKitties, the early Ethereum blockchain game, peaked in late 2017 and has declined sharply since, and the article attributes this to breeding that saturated the market and to high gas fees. Daily sales peaked in early December 2017 and by March 2018 averaged under 3,000, while today the game is lucky to break 100 sales a day. Xiaofan Liu of City University of Hong Kong says the breeding mechanism diluted rarity, and Mihai Vicol of Newzoo says gas fees reached $100 to $200 per transaction. Bryce Bladon, a founding member of the team, agrees the breeding criticism is valid.

## 20. NSA infiltrated RSA

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NSA-infiltrated-RSA?index=0x6478af415abcaf3507fab2bfc93a2c8b07804c149dbcccb7b7be69d76645b3e1c57491db
- Source: https://t.ly/YAW5P
- Submitted by cypherr.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments