# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 8 2024 Mon 19 to Sun 25 February 2024 Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2024-W08 The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 19 to Sun 25 February 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 36 comments in total. Most-shared sources: unchainedcrypto.com. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. New crypto scam drains users' wallets without transaction approval - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/New-crypto-scam-drains-users-wallets-without-transaction-approval?index=0x65d84cf5f3b2789b419f5f5ad518402269e46941c1e61c1ab75d34fa92b3ed3ad7a5c27d - Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-scam-drains-wallets-without-user-approving-transaction - Submitted by misha, 12 upvotes, 5 comments A new Telegram phishing scam drains victims' crypto wallets without a transaction approval, according to user reports and blockchain data cited by Cointelegraph. A user said he lost over $600 worth of Open Exchange (OX) tokens after connecting his wallet through a fake Collab.Land verification bot that mimicked the real one. Blockchain data shows the attacker called the Permit function on the OX token contract about 1 hour and 40 minutes before the transfer, setting a very large value, and the victim appears to have unknowingly signed a message granting that authority. Developers of Collab.Land confirmed the bot and website were not associated with their protocol and reported the scam to Telegram. ## 2. Introducing uni.eth – Your Unique Web3 Username - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Introducing-unieth-Your-Unique-Web3-Username?index=0x65d7978a55f91f5ca31e5b278f191201e2d9a5d20e933eb5218055bcec6c6511925ff6d6 - Source: https://blog.uniswap.org/introducing-uni-eth-your-unique-web3-username - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 8 upvotes, 4 comments Uniswap has launched uni.eth, a free web3 username that turns a 0x address into a readable name for use across web3. Users can claim a uni.eth username in the Uniswap mobile app, and existing users will be prompted to claim one with the latest app update. The usernames are built on ENS infrastructure using ENS subdomains, so they are supported by the thousands of apps that support ENS names, even outside Uniswap products. In the mobile app, claimants can also customize a public profile with an avatar, bio, and social links, though customization is optional. ## 3. Memetic warfare - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Memetic-warfare?index=0x65d5f307129f21fadf6154e9accc0350c56b353d15353ae2c33f40ab5a955eeb801d9bd4 - Source: https://dark.fi/insights/memetic-warfare.html - Submitted by lilping.eth, 7 upvotes, 4 comments The essay analyzes the memes and narratives of the crypto privacy sphere, framing DarkFi and lunarpunk as attempts to introduce new privacy-promoting viruses into the memeplex. It argues that the "anti-meme" aligns privacy with criminality, and that Monero's Yes Chad meme, Zcash's "Privacy is Normal" meme, and Phil Zimmermann's normcore approach to PGP all remain trapped in reactive or undifferentiated positions. It urges building tools for differentiated users, reviving cypherpunk's moral and political purpose, and emphasizing privacy's exceptional power over its normality. ## 4. Satoshi - Sirius emails 2009-2011 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Satoshi-Sirius-emails-2009-2011?index=0x65d8d859cd4a20724db285748878162297121b89fe9305c49a4b4e1cd26f2c90d9cfa682 - Source: https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi - Submitted by tim, 10 upvotes, 2 comments Martti Malmi (AKA Sirius) published his 2009–2011 email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, after deciding to share it for a 2024 UK trial where he was a witness. The archive is incomplete, containing only emails from his @cc.hut.fi address, since his university addresses changed to @aalto.fi in early 2011 and he has no backups of those. In the emails, Satoshi asks for help writing the website and FAQ, suggests running nodes that accept incoming connections on port 8333, and discusses features such as password-protected private keys and an escrow feature. ## 5. chainfeeds/RSSAggregatorforWeb3 - long list of web3 RSS feeds - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/chainfeedsRSSAggregatorforWeb3-long-list-of-web3-RSS-feeds?index=0x65d4855b19ad61c09b983eb6a37a03c7a193a17525a8e594c86568cc9728a24a5e73e404 - Source: https://github.com/chainfeeds/RSSAggregatorforWeb3/blob/main/RAW.opml - Submitted by tim, 7 upvotes, 4 comments ## 6. European human rights court says no to weakened encryption - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/European-human-rights-court-says-no-to-weakened-encryption?index=0x65d3023b8abbd49349c57ab044e908477b069c7122731b590cf8b2a6cbf98edcc2576def - Source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/echr_backdoor_encryption - Submitted by misha, 7 upvotes, 2 comments The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that laws requiring weakened encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights, a decision that may affect the EU's proposed Chat Control surveillance legislation. The court's Tuesday decision found that retaining all users' internet communications, giving security services direct access to stored data without adequate safeguards, and requiring decryption of end-to-end encrypted communications cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society. The case began in 2017, when Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) demanded that Telegram help decrypt a user's communication; the plaintiff, Anton Valeryevich Podchasov, brought the matter to the ECHR in 2019. Patrick Breyer, a Pirate Party member of the European Parliament, said the ruling shows that Chat Control is incompatible with EU law. ## 7. Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Become-a-Wikipedian-in-30-minutes?index=0x65db7310f9f4bbdbd828ecb4445df2263f5556471d5fdf5f1b71b604067c37e66410bfcd - Source: https://www.citationneeded.news/become-a-wikipedian-in-30-minutes - Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 2 comments Molly White argues that the most effective defense against Wikipedia being overrun by AI-generated content is for more people to learn to edit, and she offers to walk readers through getting started in about 30 minutes. The discussion began on BlueSky, where others raised concerns that a Wikipedia article had cited an AI-generated "source" containing falsehoods and that such errors could become a general trend. White says that when she encourages people to edit, they often reply that they tried once but felt overwhelmed by the volume of policies, the bureaucratic feel, or the fear of being reverted by more experienced editors. The text provided is an introduction, and the walkthrough itself is presented in a linked video. ## 8. Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Keep-your-phone-number-private-with-Signal-usernames?index=0x65d51eccdd829692941cbf09331b13a269aa882ab0acff81cba8a41af96c36df30fd6f69 - Source: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames - Submitted by ferran.eth, 7 upvotes, 0 comments Signal is rolling out three features that make users' phone numbers more private: a new default that hides the number from people who don't have it saved in their contacts, an optional setting that stops others from finding an account by phone number, and optional usernames for starting conversations without sharing a number. The features are in beta and are expected to reach everyone in the coming weeks, and both parties need the latest app version to use them. Signal says all of these options are optional, and users still need a phone number to sign up. Usernames must be unique and end in two or more numbers, and Signal does not provide a searchable directory of them. ## 9. Activate Uniswap Protocol Governance - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Activate-Uniswap-Protocol-Governance?index=0x65d8bb8a97329977f374807652590c379d81f646041ce319b3b17962a4c5bc00a94292cf - Source: https://gov.uniswap.org/t/rfc-activate-uniswap-protocol-governance/22936 - Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 2 comments The Uniswap Foundation proposes upgrading Uniswap protocol governance so that protocol fees are distributed to UNI token holders who have staked and delegated their tokens. The proposal would deploy two new contracts, V3FactoryOwner.sol and UniStaker.sol, and make V3FactoryOwner the owner of the UniswapV3Factory, enabling programmatic fee collection. Under the described mechanism, third parties would pay 10 WETH to collect a pool's accrued fees once they exceed that amount plus gas. A Snapshot vote is scheduled for March 1, 2024, and an on-chain vote for March 7 or 8, 2024, with governance still controlling whether fees are turned on and at what level. Scopelift designed and wrote the two contracts, and Gauntlet is preparing a separate roll-out process for turning fees on. ## 10. Breaking records, Comments, RetroPGF, Roadmap & other Kiwi updates - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Breaking-records-Comments-RetroPGF-Roadmap-and-other-Kiwi-updates?index=0x65d76360ae3ef6cfbdbf93cb53eda93b27ba4be4b52d2fdd1b563430e2bd081a5b8d300c - Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@kiwi-updates/kiwi-update-2 - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 11 upvotes, 0 comments Kiwi News reports record growth over the last three months, with 2,000+ monthly readers, 1,200+ all-time minted NFTs for paying users, and 140+ Monthly Active Curators. The update highlights the launch of comments, which the team built with a 10,000-character limit at the protocol level to favor depth. Kiwi also received 28,000 OP from Optimism RetroPGF3, and its newsletter grew to over 700 subscribers. ## 11. Starknet active addresses go down by 71% after airdrop - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Starknet-active-addresses-go-down-by-71percent-after-airdrop?index=0x65d39ea00de4887b1a0eb3565756033e0c88bc8aa6f90e7e29b947f91f4cf042ac67313b - Source: https://unchainedcrypto.com/starknet-active-addresses-go-down-by-71-after-widely-criticized-airdrop - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 4 upvotes, 4 comments Starknet's active addresses fell back to their normal range after the airdrop announcement, dropping from 226,576 on Feb. 14 to 70,219 by Feb. 19, in line with the average of the past three months. The article says the spike was a temporary reaction to the airdrop news and that the earlier figure was not typical of the network's usual activity. It links the community backlash to users excluded for missing the 0.005 ETH wallet minimum on Nov. 15, 2023, and to STRK tokens distributed to Ethereum solo stakers. StarkWare Co-Founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson defended the airdrop criteria on the Unchained podcast. ## 12. 2024 Halving: This Time It’s Actually Different [Grayscale Research] - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/2024-Halving-This-Time-Its-Actually-Different-Grayscale-Research?index=0x65d472c9a7f95d9f1d39fb02c91887848ec6b5d7b9b64302a103a1d9bf1429d9382e84dd - Source: https://www.grayscale.com/research/reports/2024-halving-this-time-its-actually-different - Submitted by ciefa.eth, 6 upvotes, 0 comments ## 13. 8 principles for digital world-building - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/8-principles-for-digital-world-building?index=0x65d85d5f24c0a8111e1c66665a5637062f2800ef591f884bc90e59468be216819eee6006 - Source: https://keningzhu.com/journal/8-principles-for-digital-world-building - Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 1 comment The author presents eight principles for building a digital world, framed as a personal philosophy rather than a marketing strategy, and argues that such a world should be built to nourish its creator and express their individuality, not to chase an audience or funnel sales. Principles include that the world must nourish its creator first, that it is a living ecosystem that values process over product, and that it offers its paid offerings as generous gifts rather than constant sales pitches. The piece also argues that a digital world makes its own rules, invites wandering and nonlinearity, and contains multiple facets of the creator's self, ending with a call for an internet that doesn't box people in. ## 14. What Is Sleepminting And Will It Ruin NFT Provenance? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/What-Is-Sleepminting-And-Will-It-Ruin-NFT-Provenance?index=0x65d3e9b7bcf9dd6b40fdd70ce02bd68ebd3bab686831ab4766914e4f2a299ccdc56ff280 - Source: https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2021-04-22/nft-sleepminting-beeple-provenance.html - Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 1 comment Sleepminting is an impersonation attack described by Tim Daub, in which an attacker mints an NFT under another creator's name without that creator's involvement. The article's example uses a fake "Creator: beeple" listing on Rarible, with the attacker minting to a victim address and later transferring the piece to a buyer. The article argues that this is an interface issue rather than a security vulnerability, since beeple's account was never accessed. It says the fake can be spotted by checking that both the mint transaction's sender and the NFT's sender match the creator's correct address. ## 15. Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon to Be Extradited to U.S. From Montenegro - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Terraform-Labs-Founder-Do-Kwon-to-Be-Extradited-to-US-From-Montenegro?index=0x65d668c7050aefff6eb3c44ce38f9192d0d40107d746075bc510d25642a49e746d1a5b98 - Source: https://unchainedcrypto.com/terraform-labs-founder-do-kwon-to-be-extradited-to-u-s-from-montenegro - Submitted by misha, 6 upvotes, 0 comments Do Kwon, founder and former CEO of Terraform Labs, will be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges, according to a report in the Montenegrin newspaper Pobjeda, following a new Montenegrin High Court ruling. The Court of Appeals had earlier reversed a High Court decision, citing unclear wording and missing justifying facts, and returned the matter to the High Court to decide between extradition to the U.S. or South Korea. Kwon and former CFO Han Chang-Joon were arrested in Podgorica in March 2023 while trying to board a plane to Dubai with falsified travel documents. Kwon faces criminal charges from the U.S. Department of Justice and civil charges from the SEC. ## 16. Blockchain & internet glossary (A–Z): Key terms from Read Write Own - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Blockchain-and-internet-glossary-A-Z-Key-terms-from-Read-Write-Own?index=0x65d6990f9f6f6bf419ad99a5c1d6b228fad37258998ee7b0dfc96300d0caf5f44f3da0f7 - Source: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/blockchain-internet-glossary-key-terms-read-write-own-book - Submitted by mraz125.eth, 4 upvotes, 1 comment This glossary, adapted from Chris Dixon's book Read Write Own (Random House, 2024), defines common blockchain and internet terms. It contrasts blockchain networks, which combine open access and user ownership with the advanced features and sustainable funding of corporate networks, with corporate networks that are centralized and can change their rules at any time. Entries also cover concepts such as the attract-extract cycle, in which corporate networks use perks to attract participants and later focus on extracting value from them, and Bitcoin, which Satoshi Nakamoto (identity unknown) described in a 2008 white paper. ## 17. ETF approval for bitcoin – the naked emperor’s new clothes - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ETF-approval-for-bitcoin-the-naked-emperors-new-clothes?index=0x65d7368e7464a9ca8b9cc90f6d8599f88247f181c51db4a66797a9fc416e8d26916a1877 - Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2024/html/ecb.blog20240222~0929f86e23.en.html - Submitted by tim, 3 upvotes, 2 comments The article, by Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf, argues that Bitcoin is unsuitable as a means of payment or an investment and that its fair value is zero, despite the US SEC's approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs on 10 January. It cites Chainanalysis figures showing $23.8 billion in illicit-address transfers in 2022, a 68.0% rise, and $1.1 billion in ransomware payments in 2023 compared with $567 million in 2022. It also reports a Forbes analysis finding that 51% of reported daily Bitcoin trading volume across 157 exchanges was likely bogus. The authors call for stronger regulation and say the recent price rally reflects speculation rather than fundamentals. ## 18. The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-State-of-the-Culture-2024-by-Ted-Gioia?index=0x65d391b75661b25ef0b53cfb855c18ac6ee36dce860c582ecc3c0b8e5813f85b0d5210d1 - Source: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024 - Submitted by misha, 5 upvotes, 1 comment Ted Gioia argues that entertainment is being replaced by a dopamine-driven culture of distraction and addiction, which he calls the most important change in the creative economy in 2024. He points to struggling entertainment companies, including Disney, Paramount, which laid off 800 employees, and Sony's $1.2 billion investment in Michael Jackson's song catalog. He cites the World Happiness Report, which surveyed 150,000 people in 26 countries and found a massive happiness decline in prosperous, technologically advanced societies. He also quotes Dr. Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation, who recommends a one-month "dopamine fast" for patients. ## 19. Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs Railway vs Render - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Monitoring-latency-Cloudflare-Workers-vs-Fly-vs-Koyeb-vs-Railway-vs-Render?index=0x65db64e2507f751bbb71d862af432b22917dea6d1b997bd931d902875725f0c4aeda8440 - Source: https://www.openstatus.dev/blog/monitoring-latency-cf-workers-fly-koyeb-raylway-render - Submitted by freeatnet.eth, 4 upvotes, 1 comment Openstatus compared latency across Cloudflare Workers, Fly.io, Koyeb, Railway and Render, using default or cheapest-tier settings and pinging each app every 10 minutes from six locations over two weeks in February 2024. Cloudflare Workers had the lowest average latency at 182ms with 100% uptime, though its Johannesburg checker was routed far from nearby data centers. Fly.io averaged 1,471ms because its machine cold-started, but its production instance, kept running, averaged 61ms. Railway averaged 381ms with one failure, and Render averaged 451ms with 12 failures, which the author attributed to cold starts. ## 20. Economics Memes - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Economics-Memes?index=0x65d9b63e6020d922a5f404a8a9adf4802cbf11f60bd331d448cb84067eb51ff8aa91a285 - Source: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/02/23/economics-memes - Submitted by rvolz.eth, 2 upvotes, 0 comments The author argues that economics should be shaped by sociological and technological narratives rather than left to economists, whose debates on specific data tend to end inconclusively. Trickle-down theory is cited as a failed meme whose narrative is undermined by a series of counterpoints, such as labor's share of wealth creation falling while quality of life improved in other ways. The proposed strategy is to introduce new, less-captured economic memes, such as the hypothetical "swirl-around theory," which the author says was made up for illustration, before economists capture the discourse. The author also presents AI investment as a top-level technology bet, while noting that GPUs are hard to buy and Nvidia stock is already high.