Top crypto stories of week 34, 2024
Mon 19 to Sun 25 August 2024
The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 19 to Sun 25 August 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 57 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, lu.ma.
Text under a title is an AI summary of the linked article.
- 10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing (honest-broker.com)
- First they came for telegram, and i did not speak out— because i used signal. (x.com)
- What is the point of minting someone's work? (honest question) (warpcast.com)
- Who decides what to censor? (Farcaster, Nostr, Bastyon, Arweave, and Lens) (simplifiedprivacy.com)
- Upgrade capitalism (x.com)
- FIDs and identity (dwr.email)
An FID's value comes from its social graph, both stated through following and revealed through activity, rather than from its profile or the onchain primitive alone. Digital identity emerges from apps with utility, so building an identity layer first is the wrong order of operations; an identity layer is earned through time spent, usage and people building on it. Email addresses, phone numbers and OS-level sign-ins such as Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google are named as the identities at scale in 2024. Email began as the internet's original killer app, and many apps shifted from email to phone numbers as smartphones spread, especially in developing countries.
- Prediction Market on Solana launches (x.com)
- Topology Protocol: A Distributed System Protocolfor the Open Metaverse (paper.topology.gg)
- Local // Onchain (mirror.xyz)
- Railgun adds privacy to Ethereum (railgun.ch)
- How to bring a community to life (davidspinks.substack.com)
- Call for contributions: Ethereum Magicians (ethereum-magicians.org)
- Resilient Social Networks (app.t2.world)
- Crypto UX actually isn't that bad (x.com)
- ‘Threads is just deathly dull’ (theguardian.com)
- Kiwi events calendar (lu.ma)
- Kiwi ETHWarsaw Tapas Meetup @ 6.09 (lu.ma)
- How to ship fast (varunsrinivasan.com)
- Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France by National Anti-Fraud (theblock.co)
- Who’s Footing the Gas Bill? (research.auditless.com)