Klarna partners with Privy to develop simple, secure crypto wallet for the masses
"Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has signed a research partnership with Privy, the leading wallet infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, to explore, research and co-design potential wallet solutions to power a new generation of crypto products for Klarna users. The agreement follows Klarna's recent launch of its own stablecoin, KlarnaUSD, in partnership with Tempo and Bridge. Now, the company is exploring building a wallet to make it easier for everyday people to actually use, store, and transact with crypto, lowering the barrier for mainstream adoption."
Hardware is a Fruit (via Not Boring)
"One of the coolest parts of my job is that I get to talk to really smart people who are building products and companies based on the thoughts in their head. Sometimes, I write long essays on these people and their companies. Typically, the easiest way to get their ideas out into the world is by going on a podcast and yapping for an hour. But there are a lot of ideas that deserve more than a passing mention on a podcast and less than a 10k word deep dive, and that are better expressed by the person whose idea it is than by me once-removed."
Anjan Katta from Daylight Computers writing on Not Boring ♥️
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the void
The internet looks very different now. People consume (and produce) more on the internet than ever before, but almost all content lives on these big social media platforms designed to keep everything and everyone inside. It feels like the web is shrinking.
one of the reasons I started blogging (again)
A second problem is that of quality: people who put a lot of time in their content (and are very good writers) can now more easily get paid for their work, through paid email newsletters and paywalled websites. All of their content doesn't live on the open web anymore (but at least there are no ads here). This is probably a win for writers, as well as the quality of the overall content being produced (and read) globally, but it's a loss for the open web.
Slow social media
However, the underlying concept of social media is something I resonate with: Stay connected with the people you care about. It's just that the current form of social media is bastardised, and not social at all. Instead of improving relationships and fostering connection, they're advertisement-funded content mills which are explicitly designed and continually refined to keep you engaged, lonely, and unhappy. And once TikTok figured out that short-form video with a recommendation engine is digital crack, all other social media platforms quickly sprang into action to copy their secret sauce.
don't agree with everything in here. solutions go in the right direction, but don't seem very exciting to me. people might want to follow >300 friends and want to post more frequently, but still care about slow social media