# Top stories on Kiwi News, week 41 2024 Mon 7 to Sun 13 October 2024 Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/weekly/2024-W41 The 20 top stories on Kiwi News from Mon 7 to Sun 13 October 2024, ranked by upvotes, comments and clicks, with 37 comments in total. Most-shared sources: x.com, bankless.com. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. 'I am not Satoshi Nakamoto' - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/I-am-not-Satoshi-Nakamoto?index=0x670610f288e40569b4867d61b5bc6cd3630432fe41bc3337f385560162b9ca4b1cf8ab19 - Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/investing/satoshi-nakamoto-identity/index.html - Submitted by zinkk.eth, 7 upvotes, 9 comments HBO's documentary "Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery," directed by Cullen Hoback, names bitcoin developer Peter Todd as the 2009 founder of bitcoin, but Todd denies being Satoshi Nakamoto. Hoback's main evidence is a 2010 bitcoin message board post from Todd, which Hoback concludes was written by Satoshi Nakamoto. Todd says he was simply pointing out a minor correction to Satoshi's writing, calls the film irresponsible, and says HBO did not approach him before its release. Hoback responded that Todd should watch the film before commenting. ## 2. Lies, Damned Lies and The Memecoin Supercycle - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lies-Damned-Lies-and-The-Memecoin-Supercycle?index=0x6705636384eb5c621a666e7cd42cc77bbecf94ece0f1e4c9db0f34cba75b18391fac4ae0 - Source: https://research.auditless.com/p/al-79-lies-damned-lies-and-the-memecoin - Submitted by auditless.eth, 9 upvotes, 1 comment Murad's Token2049 presentation argued that a Memecoin Supercycle is coming, and Raoul Pal called it exceptional. The author counters that memecoin outperformance reflects volatility and the large number of memecoins, not a sign that tech tokens are failing. The author argues that speculation dominates crypto pricing because few tokens have predictable revenue, and that the presentation's tone pushes readers toward betting on memecoins. The author concludes that the real trend is people being pushed from stable jobs into speculative income, with infrastructure builders profiting from that shift. ## 3. ENS x Google Search integration is live - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ENS-x-Google-Search-integration-is-live?index=0x67062f47c92c4cb1417553daba4c555759df8026137884c7855bb16af436e838816fc62e - Source: https://x.com/nalin/status/1843750140332650851?s=19&t=URYF8cB3cggmNof6Ed2BMA - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 6 upvotes, 7 comments ## 4. Off the Grid FTW - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Off-the-Grid-FTW?index=0x670a31c0565d39667d3e2c8fc33ef055b7f7a82e0d297ead78411fea1e68e9924fc32af2 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/off-the-grid-ftw - Submitted by misha, 5 upvotes, 1 comment Off the Grid, a new free-to-play "extraction" battle royale built on its own custom Avalanche network, is presented as a crypto game that mainstream players may enjoy. The article says the game partnered with streamers including Ninja and TimTheTatman this week and received rave reviews. It states the game is now the most popular free-to-play title on the Epic Games Store and at one point drew more stream views than Fortnite. The author attributes its appeal mainly to being fun, with blockchain elements abstracted away from players. ## 5. PvP - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/PvP?index=0x670544859d0c2e66a7ea7597c060281473bb305c28ee0adcac75b7abf94adbfcd1b75a58 - Source: https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/pvp - Submitted by naomiii.eth, 5 upvotes, 1 comment The article argues that the "PvP" (player vs. player) dynamic in the current crypto cycle is driven by venture capital firms and centralized exchanges, not retail buyers, and that tokens launched in 2024 have generally fallen after listing. Using a sample of 103 projects listed in 2024 across major exchanges, it reports that the median token was up 31% over the last private round's fully diluted valuation, and that tokens bought at or around listing underperformed Bitcoin, Ether and Solana. It cites Binance listing fees of up to 8% of total token supply, deposits of up to $5,000,000 in BNB, and most other exchanges charging $250,000 to $500,000 in stablecoins. The article uses Auki Labs, a Maelstrom portfolio project that listed first on a DEX, as an example of an alternative launch. ## 6. Who Owns the Copyright for an AI-Generated Artwork? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Who-Owns-the-Copyright-for-an-AI-Generated-Artwork?index=0x67084f33fbfecbc04c3f05c966599b83aa66b8f9d0f1f1bcd260373276e5ae3d3e081717 - Source: https://hyperallergic.com/957357/who-owns-the-copyright-for-an-ai-generated-artwork - Submitted by misha, 5 upvotes, 1 comment Jason M. Allen is appealing a US Copyright Office denial of protection for "Théâtre d'Opéra Spatial," an AI-generated artwork made with Midjourney that won a Colorado art competition in 2022. The Copyright Review Board upheld the rejection in September 2023 after Allen refused to disclose which parts of the piece were AI-created and which were modified by the artist. Allen's appeal, filed September 26 with the US District Court for the District of Colorado, says he prompted Midjourney 624 times, a process requiring "more than the bare minimal mental effort." His attorney, Tamara Pester Schklar, argues that when a human uses a machine to create a work, the human should still be considered the author. ## 7. Fighting for our web - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Fighting-for-our-web?index=0x6704e561bb91f0e9b1215b13ce3c180fac2831626dca4454bb30bb0521ba54a26f4e9993 - Source: https://www.citationneeded.news/fighting-for-our-web - Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 3 comments Molly White's talk at XOXO argues that the web's problems stem from the industry built around it, not the web itself, and that ordinary people can still shape it. She recalls how customizing Neopets user lookup pages and later editing Wikipedia made the web feel like something she could change. She describes today's web as dominated by a few social networks that reward engagement farming and rage-baiting, along with AI-generated content and scrapers that push quality work behind paywalls. She cites the "enshittification" term from Cory Doctorow and says platforms' stranglehold on the web is tenuous. ## 8. Optimism Airdrop 5 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Optimism-Airdrop-5?index=0x6706c38a04a6269bb73c8b995c32f798cae39952ff2b19503ea5c372d5b15d5859f6b30c - Source: https://community.optimism.io/op-token/airdrops/airdrop-5 - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 4 upvotes, 3 comments The Optimism article describes how the OP Stack, Optimism's open-source and MIT-licensed software for deploying onchain products, gets new features and upgrades. Protocol upgrades are drafted by OP Labs or other core contributors, reviewed by an independent Developer Advisory Board, and then face a 7-day veto period in which tokenholders, chains, apps, and end-users can override the board's decision. According to the text, the process is meant to ensure that no single entity, including OP Labs or the Foundation, can unilaterally dictate the future of the stack. ## 9. Unichain: Uniswap's L2 - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Unichain-Uniswaps-L2?index=0x6707d3fb76cc4de3c5f34361739d0fd105abdb9531ed222f0e5de5558e66196fc7e4c3a4 - Source: https://optimism.mirror.xyz/ZaKOD_vSpHoQvvNNY14L2qn0QOtJ451Bpx15-iJRv9k - Submitted by ayomide.eth, 9 upvotes, 3 comments ## 10. ɢɴᴏꜱɪꜱ ᴍᴇᴍᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇꜱᴛ - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/?index=0x670990f2ce72fe7b284e0258b4dd759eba253579a616b4d9bc2a53363095cebb246f0d45 - Source: https://warpcast.com/gnosis-dao/0x012d67b7 - Submitted by misha, 5 upvotes, 1 comment ## 11. ZORA DAU - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ZORA-DAU?index=0x670a3a6de710550a5d64a7b9d6857cba70a39a99b222de681edfbaed95a85258d543a27e - Source: https://dune.com/queries/3674196/6179280?ref=blog.conduit.xyz - Submitted by tim, 6 upvotes, 0 comments ## 12. The Inevitability of UNIchain (2022) - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Inevitability-of-UNIchain-2022?index=0x6708a5770b234e26f954b38e95fa826a917ca5b69f0acda1847ef3867e47fe176c50b5c8 - Source: https://medium.com/nascent-xyz/the-inevitability-of-unichain-bc600c92c5c4 - Submitted by tim, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Nascent argues that an appchain-centric future is likely for crypto, using Uniswap as a case study for why its application may eventually need its own chain. The article estimates that Uniswap V3 traders paid about $1.2 billion in swap fees, $1.63 billion in gas over the past year, and roughly $1.76 billion in MEV costs, the last of which rests on admittedly rough assumptions. It proposes "UNIchain," where UNI holders would be validators, so that gas fees would fall and value would be captured by UNI holders rather than ETH holders. ## 13. How Can Crypto Enthusiasts Protect Themselves When Starting Staking? - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-Can-Crypto-Enthusiasts-Protect-Themselves-When-Starting-Staking?index=0x6708f8343ae70f59359dbab041002bf9f52ea8c29cd67d60b55366ce6f73d35333204818 - Source: https://hackernoon.com/how-can-crypto-enthusiasts-protect-themselves-when-starting-staking - Submitted by pedrovilela.eth, 4 upvotes, 2 comments Staking crypto carries risks that newcomers can reduce through research, careful key management and attention to tax obligations, according to the article by Armagan Ercan and Philippe Schommers. It notes that staked ETH has risen 91% since the Shanghai upgrade, and that users can either run a validator node, which requires being online roughly six months of the year, or delegate to a pool through protocols like StakeWise. The article says validators risk having their stake "slashed" for fraud, bad data or downtime, and that on Ethereum and Gnosis Chain an offline validator can lose no more in a day than it would have earned by being online. It also warns that improperly secured private keys can enable theft, while over-securing them can cause loss of wallet access. ## 14. Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Dario-Amodei-Machines-of-Loving-Grace?index=0x6709af5ca04c06ef4a99577a0d4d708e18c288b201a5be8d44303ac208462350adac798c - Source: https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace - Submitted by rileybeans.eth, 3 upvotes, 2 comments Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, argues that the upside of powerful AI is radically underestimated and that a concrete, hopeful vision of a world with powerful AI is needed alongside discussion of its risks. He says the essay sketches what that world might look like if everything goes right, while acknowledging that its predictions are guesses and could be wrong. He defines powerful AI as a system smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields, able to work autonomously on tasks lasting hours, days, or weeks, and capable of running millions of instances at roughly 10x to 100x human speed. He also proposes that the marginal returns to intelligence, and the factors that limit them, should be central to thinking about the AI age. ## 15. Bangkok Travel Guide - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Bangkok-Travel-Guide?index=0x6709368a1913d568209bbb75afc5fea0df555e9add7ef9db08c420a53413869e6720c5ac - Source: https://migrationology.com/travel-guides/bangkok-thailand - Submitted by pfedprog.eth, 5 upvotes, 0 comments Mark Wiens, a food travel writer based in Bangkok since 2009, presents this guide to help food lovers plan a visit to the city. The guide covers arrival options at Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports, including the airport rail link at 45 THB and taxi fares of about 300 to 400 THB from Suvarnabhumi. It also recommends places to stay by area, with Banglamphu named as the best base for a first visit, and highlights street food spots such as Wang Lang Market, Yaowarat and Silom Soi 20. ## 16. Unpacking Uniswap's Unichain - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Unpacking-Uniswaps-Unichain?index=0x67084dde25ee8180bce5eefd4cc1c3d8f37f648c727f677cc6e2a2f18e2609ea69c16459 - Source: https://www.bankless.com/unichain-uniswap - Submitted by misha, 4 upvotes, 1 comment Uniswap has announced Unichain, an OP Stack rollup with a Uniswap deployment that it hopes will become crypto's main liquidity hub. The article says the network plans to use a trusted execution environment secured by UNI validators, cutting user transaction wait times fourfold from 1 second to 200-250 milliseconds and enabling the UNI fee switch through staking. The Unichain testnet launched first, with mainnet expected later in the year. The article also notes that about 80% of Uniswap's TVL remained in its Ethereum-based smart contracts at the time of analysis, so liquidity providers may not migrate automatically. ## 17. Vitalik: „A uniswap chain or even rollup makes no sense“ (2022) - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Vitalik-A-uniswap-chain-or-even-rollup-makes-no-sense-2022?index=0x6708a1d3d634e9d73622f7f693447f15fb9d9e909958899392559df04cca743e643c6238 - Source: https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1575772104678510592 - Submitted by tim, 4 upvotes, 0 comments ## 18. A 5 Step Guide to Make Ethereum—and Crypto—Cypherpunk Again - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-5-Step-Guide-to-Make-Ethereumand-CryptoCypherpunk-Again?index=0x6704e1201898149d4fd136e51caa239262756b8f880383609e89018b935b1646a7de6511 - Source: https://news.dyne.org/5-step-guide-to-make-ethereum-and-crypto-cypherpunk-again - Submitted by 0x4DD0...85D9, 4 upvotes, 0 comments The article is a call to revive the cypherpunk spirit in Ethereum and wider crypto by adopting five strategies: making the movement collaborative and inclusive, cultural, fun and easygoing, proactive, and doing rather than preaching. It argues that the community should engage artists, activists, lawyers and academics, since computers and cryptography alone are not enough. It cites Signal as an example of a nonprofit that is funded solely by donations, has never accepted investment, provides its product for free, features no advertisements and collects no user data, yet competes with and outperforms major tech giants. ## 19. FBI deployed a vaporware AI token - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/FBI-deployed-a-vaporware-AI-token?index=0x6707738b23ee934f42750dfa094cf8b01cc489e422681ac6f2285c66845bb59883bfa185 - Source: https://x.com/erichdylus/status/1844115623309393980?s=19&t=AK2qRRAlyPJXBG2wTuAYuQ - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 3 upvotes, 2 comments ## 20. "Into the Nouniverse" writing contest - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Into-the-Nouniverse-writing-contest?index=0x67055532d45f6be3d020e9b370f2dc7a28f08046a4f9f5c54ff9ed363bc7ae91d65249c1 - Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@kiwi-updates/into-the-nouniverse-writing-contest - Submitted by macbudkowski.eth, 9 upvotes, 0 comments Kiwi Updates announces the "Into the Nouniverse" writing contest, run with the Nouns community, with 3.5 ETH in prizes for crypto writers who explain Nouns. The contest runs from October 14 to November 4, 2024, and entries are judged in two tracks: "Vox Populi," decided by upvotes on Kiwi, and "Vox Judicis," decided by a jury from the Nouns and Kiwi teams. Prizes are 0.875 ETH for first place, 0.4375 ETH for second, 0.2625 ETH for third and 0.175 ETH for fourth. Voting concludes on November 6 at 6 pm CET, and winners are revealed in the following days.