# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 35 2023 Mon 28 August to Sun 3 September 2023 Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2023-W35 The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 28 August to Sun 3 September 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total. Most-shared sources: telegra.ph, sceneswithsimon.com, warpcast.com. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. My short-term roadmap proposal for Kiwi News - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/My-short-term-roadmap-proposal-for-Kiwi-News?index=0x64f366c0189d92be672b4e0d2ae986edd7359b50446af168722727e05dc148e92063eff6 - Source: https://telegra.ph/My-short-term-roadmap-proposal-for-Kiwi-News-09-02 - Submitted by tim, 12 upvotes, 0 comments Tim Daubenschütz proposes that Kiwi News finish several outstanding items before starting its new roadmap, which runs until the end of 2023. He argues the team should push harder on device delegation, which he calls its strongest retention and engagement device, and that it should close the mainnet NFT contract and offer new users minting on L2. He also argues that the team should drop the "Art as Kiwi News Pass" strategy and treat the NFT as a utility ticket. He says a price cut from 0.042 ETH to 0.0042 ETH brought five new mints in five hours. ## 2. Let's continue building our village! - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lets-continue-building-our-village?index=0x64eef86b8687667e7593678533c3f32103bfa46d8a343bb7bbbc766ccf610abb98645e45 - Source: https://telegra.ph/Lets-continue-building-our-village-08-30 - Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 0 comments Tim Daubenschütz argues that Kiwi News should keep building a small, independent link aggregator rather than chase growth like Farcaster, which recently added channels and increased its daily active users. He says Kiwi News received about 2000 USD this month from donations and sales, keeps operational costs at a minimum, and has not raised venture capital. He describes its protocol DAU growth as stagnating at 10, and says the site will continue to struggle to make ends meet for a while. He proposes a "multinational, small business" model built on independence, serving paying customers, and credible neutrality. ## 3. Picture yourself as a 21 year old that brings the internet to the mainstream - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Picture-yourself-as-a-21-year-old-that-brings-the-internet-to-the-mainstream?index=0x64f23a44f341a69b22bbc1e6a42d9c9eedbc2525107bb646cf79634851e40fd37ea24786 - Source: https://tbp.tech/netscape-culture - Submitted by misha, 7 upvotes, 0 comments ## 4. The trap of Speculation-Market-Fit - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-trap-of-Speculation-Market-Fit?index=0x64f0769a5fca3a62edbf57ad6462c14b860dd60537846bb69595b763238728658d34be4a - Source: https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/speculation-market-fit-trap - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments The author argues that crypto has been dominated by speculation because the market rewards quick financial gains, and that this discourages non-financial products. Crypto products have become "online casinos on steroids," and the author notes that most people find it hard to name five big non-speculative successes. The author sees hope in the diverse newcomers, in less competition among non-financial products, and in users who spend more freely after earning crypto gains, which could let builders create products that generate revenue quickly. ## 5. Request for Builders: Startups I Would Build Today - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Request-for-Builders-Startups-I-Would-Build-Today?index=0x64ef80cba9827761e579eab35a345af3f047fdfa35a95e3864f255d86932f03fa547b8f3 - Source: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/request-for-builders-startups-i-would-build-today - Submitted by matallo.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments ## 6. How to eat Kiwi? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-to-eat-Kiwi?index=0x64ee0ad32886fe96e9923b032f7b742dcd4ede06bd8c50290d11aa1392c5676d8e54b7f5 - Source: https://howtoeat.kiwi - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments ## 7. SEC commissioners Pierce and Uyeda dissent after NFT enforcement action - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/SEC-commissioners-Pierce-and-Uyeda-dissent-after-NFT-enforcement-action?index=0x64edea4d3753d0f10dd49ef9a6673c72d0ac60df34c71e68cd2f26bfa125101894fe148a - Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-uyeda-statement-nft-082823 - Submitted by thatalexpalmer.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda dissented in part from the SEC's first NFT enforcement action, against Impact Theory, arguing that the case should not have been brought as a securities matter. They said the company's statements did not amount to the promises that form an investment contract under Howey, though they shared concern about hype driving buyers to spend almost $30 million on NFTs. The settlement charges unregistered securities offering without fraud, and the company had already repurchased NFTs for a total of $7.7 million in Ether. The commissioners also raised a list of open questions about how the SEC should guide NFT issuers. ## 8. First BTC ETF could be coming soon as court rules in favor of Grayscale over SEC - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/First-BTC-ETF-could-be-coming-soon-as-court-rules-in-favor-of-Grayscale-over-SEC?index=0x64ee06898bbc0fa220af83398a7adf9cea28feac9a080083a0ada6e664ecb5edd6719e13 - Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/29/first-bitcoin-etf-could-be-coming-soon-as-court-rules-in-favor-of-grayscale-over-sec.html - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments ## 9. NFT: WEIRD BLOB - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-WEIRD-BLOB?index=0x64f23d2af85b56157e9ff4a2e1eb5b474678c35e6e6312f5f5c04604b28bae5fe730396a - Source: https://outland.art/obaa-miles-peyton - Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 10. Past Lives and The Boys of Summer - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Past-Lives-and-The-Boys-of-Summer?index=0x64ed2665c9961bb1539818acb0793ec040289579b574d52a719cf33513b19fe6d692a828 - Source: https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/past-lives-and-the-boys-of-summer - Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 0 comments Mitchell Chan's video game art project The Boys of Summer is presented as an NFT collection in which players pursue a major league baseball career that ends in death, and the author argues it mirrors how life feels when spreadsheets run ahead of us. The author links it to the A24 film Past Lives, which follows a married Korean American woman reconnecting with her childhood sweetheart from South Korea, and says both works turn the grief of unlived lives into something reflective rather than dramatic. The game lets players restart and reveals hidden metrics over time, and its title card changes based on the player's blockchain data. ## 11. Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Resistant-protocols-How-decentralization-evolves?index=0x64f4fd46eac6bbf7fc8abe3bf28ebfef7ecef751afebc8724fe3e74f9f48d7881190a7eb - Source: https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2018-07-25-johnbackus-howdecentralizationevolves.html - Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 0 comments Decentralization in file sharing emerged as a response to legal pressure on centralized services, a pattern traced from 1997 mp3 hosting through Kazaa. David Weekly took down his Stanford-hosted mp3 site when the RIAA asked, and link-only mp3 websites then centralized indexing while decentralizing hosting. Napster formalized that split with central search and peer-to-peer downloads until a court ruled it facilitated infringement. After the RIAA shut down Napster, OpenNap, reverse engineered in 1999, let anyone run a search server, and its user count fell 80% in less than six months of takedowns to popular servers. ## 12. NFT: We are Farcaster 2023-08-30 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-We-are-Farcaster-2023-08-30?index=0x64ef3099a276875b022b506a488738cc25b36cde46ca67c56a6bf9a5a1328b9b8020057b - Source: https://highlight.xyz/mint/64ef218073490a0eb6d63bd0 - Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 13. Map of blog posts about togetherness and the multiplayer web | Matt Webb - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Map-of-blog-posts-about-togetherness-and-the-multiplayer-web-or-Matt-Webb?index=0x64ebe55646e2e438098eae3ef173101c64e988527a2b85f7c91bd14d57ba1b6960bc5c65 - Source: https://interconnected.org/more/2022/11/multiplayer-map - Submitted by uncledavo.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 14. Magnate Finance rugs $6.5M from Base users (why we can't have nice things) - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Magnate-Finance-rugs-dollar65M-from-Base-users-why-we-cant-have-nice-things?index=0x64ec1c461d07796ab0769531aa50325ad019e71cb635fbe9debaebd317f31c7483ccd53f - Source: https://en.ethereumworldnews.com/magnate-finance-rugs-millions-base - Submitted by thatalexpalmer.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 15. Retreating to Digital Villages From The Algorithmic Scenes - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Retreating-to-Digital-Villages-From-The-Algorithmic-Scenes?index=0x64f4a3f3306af845230b6b38ba841bf1379d5e76a5469fe413940ceb5677e68b3013f2a9 - Source: https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/retreating-to-digital-villages-from - Submitted by misha, 3 upvotes, 0 comments This newsletter argues that the algorithm-driven creative environment of the web has fractured, pushing creators back toward smaller, human-scale communities, which it calls villages. The author contrasts villages with scenes, which are short-lived clusters of people held together by a shared interest, and says many scenes that algorithms such as Twitter once bound together are now withering. Examples of the retreat it names include Discord groups, IRL events, newsletters, blog rolls and tapes, and it credits the Hollywood creative strikes this year partly to creators meeting on picket lines away from the algorithm. The piece closes by suggesting that creators are now freer to make what they want rather than content for feeds. ## 16. Skin on or skin off? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Skin-on-or-skin-off?index=0x64ee08bc992e25045f4666dc67ada46519f70280b1dbb1c12bc3828af4f3fba31f2692fb - Source: https://warpcast.com/~/conversations/0x45d0173eeeed21b21c08f3af9febb3daf720a169 - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 17. In the Arena: Martin Shkreli - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/In-the-Arena-Martin-Shkreli?index=0x64ecd91069ea72461b3c136c49cbf5306205c9537cfdd073721a772754d5a70f3fdb351e - Source: https://youtu.be/PTp-uCZYe5M - Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 18. Why Farcaster has chosen Optimism to scale - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Why-Farcaster-has-chosen-Optimism-to-scale?index=0x64f052cc9ca7461c07c9dbdf623285f125307af517e5531b525cf0adb26cbb04bd267bff - Source: https://warpcast.com/francos.eth/0x1e5a05 - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 19. The Real Product Market Fit by Michael Seibel - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Real-Product-Market-Fit-by-Michael-Seibel?index=0x64f44b894902ef0d569e226219c39cad6600a7eff1f1b78ff248b4b65b37ddd00995d363 - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOLk9s9Ci4 - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 20. Google's quantum computer is 241 million times more powerful than it was 2019 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Googles-quantum-computer-is-241-million-times-more-powerful-than-it-was-2019?index=0x64ed0199852331dcbc416b0717bc9d3202f83bc6d5e8d81d6f360dc7fa602a691fef5685 - Source: https://www.earth.com/news/quantum-computer-can-instantly-execute-a-task-that-would-normally-take-47-years - Submitted by simonanderson.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Google has reportedly built a quantum computer that performs calculations in moments that would take the world's most advanced supercomputers nearly half a century. Its Sycamore processor now has 70 qubits, up from 53 in the earlier version, and according to the Google team, the Frontier supercomputer in Tennessee would need 6.18 seconds to match a 53-qubit calculation but 47.2 years to match a 70-qubit one. The team published its findings in an arXiv pre-print paper. Steve Brierley, chief executive of Riverlane, called the advance a "major milestone," while critics argue these machines still need more practical use beyond academic research.