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Another Chinese Giant, Meituan Dianping, Might Test Digital Yuan – Report
15.7.2020
The rollout of China’s much-discussed central bank digital currency (CBDC) is getting one step closer, as the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) – the country’s central bank – is said to have entered into discussions with a giant online food delivery platform for a trial of the digital yuan.
Citing...
Easy Stock Market Quotes with marketstack (Sponsored)
12.7.2020
The stock market is wild right now, at least in the United States. Between pandemic, political events, and everything else going on, the stock market is one swing after another. There are a host of services that give you stock quotes but I don’t trust them; I feel like they delay information...
Another Bitcoin Stimulus Check Might Be Around The Corner
8.7.2020
The US government might send out another wave of stimulus checks to their citizens, which some might use to buy bitcoin (BTC) or altcoins - and which would in effect (ironically) mean that the BTC-skeptic Donald Trump, who is seeking reelection this November, might inadvertently help crypto...
Germany Takes Over FATF Presidency With New Guidance to Help Countries Apply Crypto Standards
4.7.2020
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has a new president as Germany took over the presidency from China. The intergovernmental organization also highlighted the need for more guidance on cryptocurrencies as many countries have not yet fully implemented its revised crypto standards. Another review...
Some Performance Links
3.7.2020
Just had a couple of good performance links burning a hole in my pocket, so blogging them like a good little blogger.
Web Performance Recipes With Puppeteer 
Puppeteer is an Node library for spinning up a copy of Chrome “headlessly” (i.e. no UI) and controlling it. People use it...
Another Million People Tried Crypto in the UK + More News
30.6.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
3.86%, or 1.9 million, of the general population in the UK currently hold cryptocurrencies, the Financial...
Popular Analyst Reveals New Bitcoin Pricing Model: Prediction Suggests ‘Bullish Run a Month Away’
27.6.2020
The popular bitcoin analyst Willy Woo told his 132,000 Twitter followers that he’s working on a new pricing model that suggests a bull run is imminent. In fact, Woo says the model suggests bitcoin is close to “another bullish run” with “maybe another month to go.”...
Hyundai Adds Another Piece to Their Growing Blockchain Ecosystem
26.6.2020
Hyundai embraces the blockchain and crypto industry with three trademark registrations
Base Layer Wars Heat Up With Another $12M Committed to AVA Labs’ Avalanche Blockchain
25.6.2020
AVA Labs has closed a $12 million private token sale. The funding round – co-led by Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized and others – comes weeks before an anticipated mainnet launch
Let’s Make a Multi-Thumb Slider That Calculates The Width Between Thumbs
23.6.2020
HTML has an <input type="range">, which is, you could argue, the simplest type of proportion slider. Wherever the thumb of that slider ends up could represent a proportion of whatever is before and whatever is after it (using the value and max attributes). Getting fancier, it’s possible...
Another Bitcoin Scam Hits Canada
19.6.2020
A local store owner in Winnipeg reported that several of his customers were victims of a Bitcoin scam
New York Fed’s ‘Bitcoin Is Just Another Fiat’ Claim Sparks Controversy
19.6.2020
Economists at the New York Federal Reserve think Bitcoin is a fiat currency. Nic Carter thinks the New York Fed is "insane."
Just another +1 for subgrid
19.6.2020
I’d say 85% of my grid usage is in one of these two categories…
I just need some pretty basic (probably equal width) columns that ends up being something like like grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(0, 1fr)); to be safe.
Actually doing some real layout where five minutes in...
Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health
16.6.2020
As front-end developers, our job is working with browsers. Knowing how many we have and the health of them is always of great interest. As far as numbers go, we have fewer recently than we have in the past. It’s only this month that Edge is starting to auto-update browsers to the Chromium...
Bitfinex Hackers Move Another $4.1 Million Bitcoin in Their Biggest Pay Day Yet
12.6.2020
Cyber-thieves from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago continue to cash out, this time transferring the equivalent of $4.1 million in bitcoin to an unknown wallet address. Crypto tracking tool Whale Alert reports that hackers moved 416 bitcoin (BTC) on June 11. The funds, valued at $4.1 million...
Speculation Rife as User Pays a Second $2.6 Million Fee in Ether Transaction
11.6.2020
History repeated itself on Thursday, after the Ethereum blockchain processed another transfer with fees of $2.6 million – the second such unusual, record-fee transaction in 24 hours. A user sent 350 ether (ETH), worth about $86,400 and paid 10,668 ETH, or $2.6 million, in transaction fees....
Another USD 2.6M Paid in Ethereum Fees - Many Doubt it's a Mistake
11.6.2020
Source: Adobe/djjeep_design
Another USD 2.6 million in fees was paid for a different Ethereum (ETH) transaction, and people are doubting that this is a mistake as previously thought. 
The Cryptoverse was surprised by yet another small value sent with a dizzying fee within 24 hours. Compared...
CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers
10.6.2020
Šime Vidas with the lowdown on what these pseudo-selectors are and why they will be useful:
:is() is to reduce repetition¹ of parts of comma-separated selectors. 
:where() is the same, but nothing inside it affects specificity. The example of wrapping :where(:not()) is really great, as now there...
Another Data Point Suggests Bitcoin Close to Prolonged Bull Market
10.6.2020
Bitcoin could be on the verge of breaking into a multi-month bull run, according to a lesser-known data metric
Another Free Ransomware Decryptor Released
6.6.2020
Emsisoft launched a free tool that decrypts files affected by a variant of the Tycoon ransomware attack