# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 36 2023 Mon 4 to Sun 10 September 2023 Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2023-W36 The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 4 to Sun 10 September 2023, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 0 comments in total. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. List of Hardware Wallet Hacks - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/List-of-Hardware-Wallet-Hacks?index=0x64f5d51ecbef1705fa45cdb632b864cc3f473013cc20cd784b304a05e6b94f68f228ce7d - Source: https://thecharlatan.ch/List-Of-Hardware-Wallet-Hacks - Submitted by accountless.eth, 11 upvotes, 0 comments This page is a running list of hardware wallet vulnerabilities, counting any flaw that lets an attacker change a device's intended behavior, whether or not it was exploited or rated low-risk by vendors. Entries run from 2014 to late 2018 and cover Trezor, Ledger and Shift Cryptosecurity's BitBox01. Notable entries include a 2015 Trezor power-analysis key extraction reported by Jochen Hoenicke, a 2018 Ledger isolation vulnerability reported by Sergei Volokitin, and a 2018 BitBox01 issue where the xpub API could reveal private keys, reported by Saleem Rashid. ## 2. How Kiwi News Protocol works - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-Kiwi-News-Protocol-works?index=0x64f9f2b41b1c5903754e672e5bc7ce551675c1ea382ee6ee70ccacd6f6bf4716cbde5b39 - Source: https://attestate.com/kiwistand/main/protocol-guide.html - Submitted by tim, 10 upvotes, 0 comments Kiwi News Protocol is an open, permissionless peer-to-peer protocol that distributes user-generated content and synchronizes nodes using a Merkle Patricia trie. Nodes accept posts only from Ethereum addresses that minted the "Hyperkiwification" NFT, which the protocol uses for sybil resistance. The article argues that plain gossip broadcasting cannot keep offline nodes in sync, so it uses set reconciliation, starting with a bitmap approach and then moving to Merkle trees. It says bitmaps become impractical because message sets are unpredictably sized and hash outputs reach 2^256 - 1, while Merkle trees allow peers to compare subtrees level by level and skip matching sections. ## 3. Lufthansa airline launches NFT loyalty program on Polygon - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lufthansa-airline-launches-NFT-loyalty-program-on-Polygon?index=0x64faefb0e6214043441a332c8947d5b02755a7fce219ab0bfbe8a1eb28d2dcfa898aa800 - Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/polygon-nft-lufthansa-airline-launches-nft-loyalty-program-on-polygon - Submitted by dbdogan.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments Lufthansa has launched an NFT loyalty program on the Polygon Network through its Uptrip mobile app, which lets passengers turn their flights into collectible NFTs that unlock rewards. The app was announced on Aug. 31 by Lufthansa Innovation Hub, the airline group's digital innovation unit, and Miles & More, its frequent flyer program. Passengers scan their boarding passes to receive NFT trading cards, connect a crypto wallet to mint and transfer them, and earn rewards such as flight upgrades, lounge access, frequent flyer status or award miles upon completing collections. The announcement reported over 20,000 sign-ups and 200,000 NFT trading cards minted. ## 4. the-proto-app-thesis - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/the-proto-app-thesis?index=0x64fae31f31db027aef14d335415bb669c1a740db8d9c9ed3a7d65195b1c72059b39bb3b7 - Source: https://davidphelps.substack.com/p/the-proto-app-thesis - Submitted by qiaoliang.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments The next wave of major social apps will look like protocols, or "proto-apps," and ChatGPT is presented as the first major app in nearly a decade because it is an example of this new category. The Social App Thesis holds that the main social categories are held by incumbents whose distributional network effects are too strong to challenge. ChatGPT launched as a web app rather than a mobile app, which carries a 30% app store commission, and it is horizontal, with no set use case. ## 5. Here’s Why Anonymous NFT And Crypto Founders Continue To Gain Popularity - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Heres-Why-Anonymous-NFT-And-Crypto-Founders-Continue-To-Gain-Popularity?index=0x64f5c91d07781892b5c3ebf8782d4c73dd082fd59f8b177ebc7e4096646851e02aceda71 - Source: https://archive.is/DYFYm - Submitted by lens.ahn.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 6. aol-pretends-to-be-the-internet - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/aol-pretends-to-be-the-internet?index=0x64f97c393080e2fd4b30175f1cdd4c7237b3c308556d2687f423ec83aa650dc9346d44a4 - Source: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/aol-pretends-to-be-the-internet - Submitted by qiaoliang.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments AOL, the online service that began as Quantum Computer Services, expanded from a closed network into a gateway to the wider Internet in the mid-1990s, and by 1997 about half of Internet users were accessing it through AOL. The article says Ted Leonsis, who joined AOL after its 1994 acquisition of his firm Redgate Communications, initially aimed to make AOL a content portal competing with Disney and television. In 1994, after subscriber requests, AOL added support for Gopher and WAIS, and Steve Case told the press, "AOL is the Internet and a whole lot more." AOL acquired the BookLink browser in 1995 and added Microsoft's Internet Explorer in 1996, and in 1998 it bought Netscape for $4.2 billion. ## 7. How Farcaster Hubs work - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-Farcaster-Hubs-work?index=0x64f9f94ef43ac6572b2bdab3f1ccbef583a8605e35711f2c747b17452c5d978b5bb445f8 - Source: https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x13b740 - Submitted by matallo.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 8. MetaMask Introduces Bank and PayPal Cash-Out Options - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/MetaMask-Introduces-Bank-and-PayPal-Cash-Out-Options?index=0x64f8717a975015471600c903bb1b536b06cd79a49a917a6b5e418482b9a172d96e3327b5 - Source: https://decrypt.co/155039/metamask-sell-transfer-withdraw-cash-out-paypal - Submitted by basedsatoshi.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments MetaMask now lets users cash out crypto to a bank account or PayPal account, according to a Tuesday blog post from the company. The feature is available in the U.S., U.K., and parts of Europe, where users can convert crypto to dollars, euros, and pounds. MetaMask said it plans to expand to more regions. The wallet, which has more than 30 million monthly active users, works as a browser extension on Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Firefox. ## 9. Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Experts-Fear-Crooks-are-Cracking-Keys-Stolen-in-LastPass-Breach?index=0x64f7d8555edd67fc6a559232df3823a1c0a076c2b17e2c67c3b21796205518d5fe21a146 - Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/09/experts-fear-crooks-are-cracking-keys-stolen-in-lastpass-breach - Submitted by mantej.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Security researchers including MetaMask's Taylor Monahan and Unciphered's Nick Bax say they have linked more than 150 cryptocurrency theft victims, who lost over $35 million, to a common cause: storing their seed phrases in LastPass. Monahan said the victims were longtime crypto investors and security-minded people who did not show the email or phone compromises that typically precede such heists. Bax said the thefts moved funds to the same blockchain addresses, which connects the victims, and that the attacks have occurred at roughly two to five high-dollar heists per month since December 2022. LastPass declined to answer questions about the research, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation and pending litigation over its November 2022 breach, which exposed password vaults for more than 25 million users. ## 10. Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Blockchain-Privacy-and-Regulatory-Compliance-Towards-a-Practical-Equilibrium?index=0x64f88d1a8d93a900720b2a8baebb50210ffe50e5b276ef2a7f7101e2075a568dbdbd7b49 - Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364 - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments ## 11. Secrets, and how to prove them: A magician’s guide to zero-knowledge proofs - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Secrets-and-how-to-prove-them-A-magicians-guide-to-zero-knowledge-proofs?index=0x64fb7328d5c1c6aa38829baf0267d4a1216038dea26ad905611f89ea645ba0c452307b09 - Source: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-magicians-guide-to-zero-knowledge-proofs - Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Michael Blau argues that magic tricks work as an accessible analogy for zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), a cryptographic tool that he says could help web3 address scalability and privacy. He describes a zk-SNARK, citing Justin Thaler's definition, as letting a prover show a verifier that they know some data without revealing it. The article maps the two core properties onto magic: privacy, since the magician keeps the secret method hidden, and succinctness and work-saving, since watching a successful trick is quicker to verify than learning the method. ## 12. Binance's Slow Train Wreck - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Binances-Slow-Train-Wreck?index=0x64f9e87eea16068e18d1c5abe349c0558bcbb7e73a8d0dd29c653af26f11fefc2eacc5e6 - Source: https://x.com/travis_kling/status/1699135859885236432?s=46&t=HAnDjwY0J4IaCdeo47Tneg - Submitted by matallo.eth, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 13. NASA Ice Viewer to see melting glaciers - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NASA-Ice-Viewer-to-see-melting-glaciers?index=0x64fdcb7d7fb0c740979151b0ab69fbb9839abcd96457e8e8cc7bdc7f3e72354d2ba60b32 - Source: https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/global-ice-viewer#/ - Submitted by thatalexpalmer.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments NASA has released a Global Ice Viewer that shows climate change's impact on ice, one of several climate resources on its website. The page's central claim is that there is unequivocal evidence Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate, with human activity as the principal cause. Satellites and new technologies have collected many types of data over many years that reveal signs and patterns of a changing climate. The page also lists resources such as the Climate Time Machine, GISTEMP, which draws on tens of thousands of meteorological stations, and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation. ## 14. Considerations on Cost Disease - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Considerations-on-Cost-Disease?index=0x64fd55f2edd45a3bed41c2623a9c741fdd9260b80010d1f908d1c512e00888bf749308dc - Source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease - Submitted by 11b.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Costs in education, health care, college, infrastructure and housing have risen far faster than measurable gains in quality, a pattern known as cost disease. Per-student school spending rose about 2.5-fold over forty years after inflation adjustment, while high school reading scores rose only from 285 in 1971 to 287 today. Inflation-adjusted college costs rose from about $2,000 a year in 1980 to nearly $20,000, and health care costs have roughly quintupled since 1970. Vox notes that a new New York subway line costs about $2.2 billion per kilometer, versus $40 million per kilometer in Seoul. ## 15. Scammers can now hide links in any discord text - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Scammers-can-now-hide-links-in-any-discord-text?index=0x64f655549912e955737daa7ff885523b7430f3010e03faa0aee4c2f535d950e99ff59a22 - Source: https://twitter.com/PocketUniverseZ/status/1698767797432779236 - Submitted by basedsatoshi.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 16. Southeast Asia super-app Grab adds support for web3 services - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Southeast-Asia-super-app-Grab-adds-support-for-web3-services?index=0x64fabd1619d7490c6322fd9eddabd7fe70d83cacfc282e84a056412ab820a34d9e59cfe7 - Source: https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/249787/southeast-asia-super-app-grab-adds-support-for-web3-services - Submitted by dbdogan.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 17. SEC chair Gary Gensler's court losses are piling up in crypto - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/SEC-chair-Gary-Genslers-court-losses-are-piling-up-in-crypto?index=0x64f831a4dfc3dc83fcd2670537a95237fbe37949f8a1b40153398a1193559c520490f0a0 - Source: https://www.axios.com/2023/08/30/gary-gensler-crypto-court-losses - Submitted by justin.ahn.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 18. NFT: Unicurse - Interactive generative labyrinths - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-Unicurse-Interactive-generative-labyrinths?index=0x64fb35ab725b79201b5465388d3fc4ee237fa49e6b7af6e1015a6ffc920f8b1d5dc141e2 - Source: https://highlight.xyz/mint/64f5b3f1373cff27b5e9306f - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments ## 19. X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Xs-privacy-policy-confirms-it-will-use-public-data-to-train-AI-models?index=0x64f58392cc479e3e5617b4a0fefbc0e4a110a704bfe96a34663a0db9ed275761a8ab218b - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/01/xs-privacy-policy-confirms-it-will-use-public-data-to-train-ai-models - Submitted by misha, 2 upvotes, 0 comments X's updated privacy policy says the company may use information it collects and other publicly available information to help train its machine learning and AI models, according to a change noticed by Alex Ivanovs of Stackdiary. The policy text, found in section 2.1, reads that X "may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy." The article notes that Ivanovs links this to Elon Musk's AI company xAI, and that Musk stated on August 31, 2023 that the plan is to use "just public data, not DMs or anything private." ## 20. The Network State Conference: Amsterdam, Oct 30 2023 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Network-State-Conference-Amsterdam-Oct-30-2023?index=0x64f5ec0f3b18009656358825ec207419ff694fe4f02d0cdcc0c0949b335ccc7e1d874921 - Source: https://lu.ma/tnsconf - Submitted by emr.eth, 3 upvotes, 0 comments The Network State Conference is a one-day event in Amsterdam on October 30, 2023, for people interested in founding, funding, and finding new communities, with topics including startup societies, network states, digital nomadism, and competitive government. The schedule lists speakers such as Vitalik Buterin presenting Zuzalu, Glenn Greenwald presenting Rumble, Garry Tan presenting YCombinator, and Anatoly Yakovenko presenting Solana Labs. The event is held at TAETS Art and Event Park in Zaandam, and it is streamed on YouTube and Twitter for remote attendees.