Top crypto stories of week 7, 2024
Mon 12 to Sun 18 February 2024
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 12 to Sun 18 February 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 48 comments in total. Most-shared sources: paragraph.xyz, github.com.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- The Tyranny of the Marginal User (open.substack.com)
- Betting on Farcaster (haardik.dev)
The author argues that Farcaster, a decentralized social network built on Ethereum, is worth betting on, and the writer describes personally becoming invested in it as a user and builder. Joining in January 2023, the writer found an early builder community and became more active after winning a Purple DAO NFT in late 2023 and building Teleport, a Farcaster Hub in Rust. The writer says Farcaster launched Frames on 26 January 2024, which drew many new builders and users, and that the writer's company LearnWeb3 has committed to deeper Farcaster integration.
- Farcaster's Locust Plague (telegra.ph)
- Farcaster.vote: a Frame for decentralized verifiable polls (blog.vocdoni.io)
- Jan runs an open source GPT alternative on your machine (jan.ai)
- Thoughts: on Farcaster growth, innovation, speculation — Albiverse (mirror.xyz)
- The Californian Ideology (metamute.org)
- Sam Altman wants $7 Trillion (astralcodexten.com)
Sam Altman reportedly wants $7 trillion to scale up AI, and the author uses rough scaling estimates to argue this would be needed for future GPT models. The author projects that GPT-6 could cost about $75 billion and GPT-7 about $2 trillion, based on each GPT generation costing roughly 30 times more than the last. The article says these figures require vast amounts of compute, electricity, and training data, which the author considers hard to obtain. The author also argues that a centralized push for $7 trillion would contradict OpenAI's earlier compute overhang argument for gradual AI progress.
- How to create frames without any code (paragraph.xyz)
- Anonymized OP RetroPGF 3 voting dataset (github.com)
- GitHub - kugusha/art-farcaster: A collection of art-related Farcaster links (github.com)
- The Skiff Privacy Fiasco, or How not to Shutdown Your Startup (blog.notesnook.com)
- Binance delisted Monero (twitter.com)
- Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem (time.com)
- Understanding the Intersection of Crypto and AI (galaxy.com)
- Our Means vs. Your Ends (gotnojuice.substack.com)
- What Makes a Great Ugly Art? (paragraph.xyz)
- On the Value of Shitposting (cryptocurrencyposters.com)
- Show KN: Detect Web3 Frontend Attacks with dAppling DNS Monitor (blog.dappling.network)
- Farcaster DAU/MAU ratio (dune.com)