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China’s 2nd-Largest Courier Using Blockchain to Deliver Key Supplies Amid Pandemic
30.3.2020
Major Chinese courier service SF Express is turning to blockchain to bolster its logistics resilience during the COVID-19 outbreak
Trump Signs Largest Relief Bill in US History: When Will Americans Get Stimulus Checks
28.3.2020
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law what he calls the largest single economic relief bill in history. “At $2.2 trillion dollars, this bill will deliver urgently-needed relief for our nation’s families, workers, and businesses,” Trump said. Americans are expected...
Here’s How to Order Food From Your Home Using Cryptocurrency
26.3.2020
Staying home during the coronavirus epidemic reduces the risk of getting infected with the deadly covid-19. The disease, which has already claimed the lives of over 20,000 people globally, spreads through human contact. Food is one of the few basic necessities that can regularly get you out of your...
Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?
12.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption? (Coming soon)
How do new algorithms help? (Coming soon)
In the previous article, we explained what strong (vs. eventual) consistency is. This article is the second part of a series where we explain how...
White House Market Wants to Become the Darknet’s Toughest DNM
13.1.2020
White House Market (WHM) is an ultra-secure darknet market (DNM). It disallows Javascript, enforces PGP throughout, admins key sign every 72 hours, and only accepts monero (XMR). It might be the darknet’s most private market. But do its vendors deliver? News.Bitcoin.com dusted down some...
Did 2019 Deliver on All That Was Promised for the Crypto Industry?
30.12.2019
“The lack of a groundbreaking project that would have opened the eyes of skeptics is most disappointing.” Experts weigh up unfulfilled promises of 2019
Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
17.12.2019
A clever idea from Matthew Ström:
[...] design APIs don’t seem like a stretch of the imagination. An API-driven approach is the natural extension of the work currently being done on design systems, including tokens and standardization projects.
If you buy into the idea of design tokens, that...
UPS and HerdX Collaborate to Deliver Blockchain-verified Beef From US to Japan
12.11.2019
The first blockchain verified beef would be delivered in a HerdX shipment from US to Japan in collaboration with UPS. HerdX is a provider of agriculture-technology solutions while UPS is a global customs brokerage and this collaboration marks a major step towards ensuring quality and assuring...
European Banking Authority (EBA) to Deliver Keynote Address at the Annual Payments International Conference
6.11.2019
With a clear focus on quality, our exclusive speaker line-up at Payments International 2019 will provide an unparalleled platform for professionals in the payments arena to learn, meet, mingle, establish, and reinforce business relationships. Payments International brings you insights into...
Biscuit & TRON Partner to Deliver Hit Sequel, Knight Story
21.10.2019
After much anticipation, TRON announces its partnership with Biscuit to build and distribute the next generation of blockchain games with the goal of accelerating adoption. TRON joins as a strategic investor to the promising blockchain game studio, widely celebrated for its chart-topping...
Workflow Considerations for Using an Image Management Service
16.10.2019
There are all these sites out there that want to help you with your images. They do things like optimize your images and help you serve them performantly.
That's a very good thing. By any metric, images are a major slice of the resources on websites, and we're notoriously bad at optimizing them...
Stop Animations During Window Resizing
14.10.2019
Say you have page that has a bunch of transitions and animations on all sorts of elements. Some of them get triggered when the window is resized because they have to do with size of the page or position or padding or something. It doesn't really matter what it is, the fact that the transition...
Bitmain Launches Next Gen Miner as Bitcoin Hashrate Touches 100 Exahash
11.9.2019
Last Thursday the China-based mining rig manufacturer Bitmain announced the launch of two new Antminers that offer hashrates between 53 to 64 terahash per second (TH/s). When the Antminer sale started on Monday, first batch devices sold extremely fast and Bitmain expects to deliver units...
Smokescreens and Mirrors: How Does a Country Do an ICO? They Call It QE
22.8.2019
Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them. To hide this fact they...
Brimhall Foods to Deliver Products Through Blockchain-based Ordering System
27.6.2019
Surge Holdings is slated to distribute 15 Brimhall Foods products through its product ordering/refilling blockchain solution for retail stores
Ripple Price Analysis: RippleNet Transactions Witness Remarkable Surge; while XRP Struggles to Deliver a Price Recovery
12.6.2019
At the launch of its office in Brazil, Product Marketing VP of Ripple, Kevin Mole has announced Ripple’s achievement noting that the crypto giant has reported a record-breaking surge in the number of transactions on RippleNet. According to Mole, XRP holds a significant position when it comes...
PR: dClinic Partners With Indonesian Hospital BP Batam
3.6.2019
Batam (Indonesia) and dClinic will be world leaders in Healthcare Blockchain technology by bringing together a significant number of partners to help deliver a blockchain solution for Indonesian citizens.The aim is to have this solution eventually roll out across the whole of Indonesia.
The post...
Bahamas Central Bank Enters Agreement to Deliver First National Digital Currency by 2020
29.5.2019
The Central Bank of the Bahamas will sign an official agreement tomorrow to develop its digital fiat currency system called “Project Sand Dollar”
Ripple (XRP) Price Analysis: Why Ripple’s xRapid Is Not Able To Deliver On Its Promises Yet?
20.5.2019
Ripple is yet to make the growth count as the XRP coin makes slow upward moves Ripple’s partnerships to yield the expected outcome soon In the world of cryptocurrencies, every move counts. But the investors are bewildered on why Ripple’s partnerships with so many top-notch global banks are...
Buddy: 15 Minutes to Automation Nirvana
26.3.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Deploying a website to the server in 2019 requires much more effort than 10 years ago. For example, here's what needs to be done nowadays to deliver a typical JS app:
split the app into chunks
configure webpack bundle
minify .js files
set up staging environment
upload...