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Rollouts, Rollbacks and 20 Crypto Jokes
15.2.2020
This week in crypto, analysts predicted Bitcoin may go higher after breaching USD 10k. Justin Sun told people to buy his 'shitcoin,' and OKChain testnet went live; Voice Beta went live too, but not for all. Meanwhile, Ripple announced partnership with the National Bank of Egypt, Hadera is working...
Zebpay Offers Top-Notch Features with Full Proof Security
15.2.2020
Zebpay, the Singapore-based platform, offers user-friendly crypto wallet services for the iOS platform, web platform, as well as the Android platform. The platform’s focus is providing a rewarding and enjoyable experience for its users. As of now, the platform has 3 million users. The feature-rich...
Financial Giants-Backed Fnality To Launch First USC Token This Year
14.2.2020
Nasdaq is among the shareholders of Fnality. Fnality International, a technology firm founded in 2019, with fifteen major financial firms, including ING, Nasdaq, UBS, Barclays, as shareholders, aims to roll out its payment system this year, launching the first ‘version’ of its USC token.
As...
While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better
14.2.2020
One thing that caught my eye on the list of features for Lea Verou's conic-gradient() polyfill was the last item:
Supports double position syntax (two positions for the same color stop, as a shortcut for two consecutive color stops with the same color)
Surprisingly, I recently discovered most...
No Reprieve for LocalBitcoins Traders whose Bitcoin Remains Locked up
12.2.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) traders say they are still waiting to regain access to their tokens two weeks after peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange LocalBitcoins quietly suspended their accounts. Account-holders say they have been severely inconvenienced by the move, which has brought their trading operations...
Here is How Your Portfolio Would've Performed w/ 1%, 5% and 10% in BTC
9.2.2020
It is no longer a secret that bitcoin (BTC) is the best performing asset of the last decade. However, in light of bitcoin’s volatility, many traditional investors are skeptical about how beneficial adding bitcoin to their portfolio would be for their returns.
In the following analysis, we will...
'Stale' Block Reminds the Importance of Bitcoin Confirmations
8.2.2020
“Bitcoin is stale.” Early champions such as Jon McAffee have been describing the original cryptocurrency as the "true Shitcoin," while to make matters worse, it also recently witnessed the creation of another 'stale' block.
But why is a stale block a problem? Well, for those who don't know, a block...
Conflicts, Interests, Emojis and 20 Crypto Jokes
8.2.2020
Let's recap what happened in this crypto week. Total value locked in DeFi hit 1 billion! The public war-of-words between the co-founders of the IOTA Foundation took a fresh turn, Bitspark will close due to internal issues despite reporting positive results, but the first phase of Ethereum 2.0...
Custom Styling Form Inputs With Modern CSS Features
7.2.2020
It’s entirely possible to build custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggle switches these days, while staying semantic and accessible. We don’t even need a single line of JavaScript or extra HTML elements! It’s actually gotten easier lately than it has been in the past. Let’s take a look.
Here’s...
Kyber Network Expects to Surpass USD 500 million in Volume This Year
6.2.2020
Kyber Network (KNC), an open-source, on-chain liquidity protocol, expects to facilitate over USD 500 million in transaction volume in 2020, or 29% more than last year, Loi Luu, CEO and Co-Founder of Kyber Network, told Cryptonews.com.
According to the CEO, Kyber facilitated USD 70 million worth...
Browser Version Release Spectrum
6.2.2020
Whenever a browser upgrades versions, it's a little marketing event, and rightly so. Looks like for Firefox it's about once a month, Chrome is ~6 weeks, and Safari is once a year.
Chrome 80 just dropped, as they say, and we get a video and blog post. What strikes me about releases like this these...
Crypto Companies Adopt Features Similar to Banks (Only Better) to Drive Growth
5.2.2020
Will higher interest rates and zero-fee trading drive user adoption of cryptocurrencies?
How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack
4.2.2020
Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can pull content from WordPress using the REST API.
Using Vue, Nuxt, axios and Netlify, it's...
Government Think Tank Niti Aayog Identifies Key Blockchain Use Cases for India
4.2.2020
The policy think tank for the government of India, Niti Aayog, has published a strategy document identifying a number of key areas blockchain technology can significantly benefit the country. “By empowering citizens through features of transparency, decentralization and accountability...
Here’s What Bitcoin’s 2 Biggest Privacy Wallets are Working on in 2020
2.2.2020
It’s no secret that Bitcoin has issues when it comes to privacy. After all, it’s pretty difficult to implement privacy features in a system that puts the entire history of transactions on a public ledger for everyone to see.
That said, improvements to Bitcoin privacy have been slowly implemented...
Boerse Stuttgart’s Bison Trading App to Add Bitcoin Cash and Launch Desktop Version
2.2.2020
Bison, the crypto trading application offered by Boerse Stuttgart, has seen a remarkable growth of users in the past 12 months, the group announced this week. Germany’s second-largest stock exchange is now planning to expand its features and offer traders in Europe another cryptocurrency...
Seed Phrase and Wallet Recovery Still Isn't Idiot-Proof
1.2.2020
Prominent gold bug and Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff is a genius. Okay, he isn't, but the apparent loss of his bitcoin (BTC) holdings has helpfully raised the topic of crypto-wallet security.
Yes, your holdings will most likely remain safe so long as you follow best practices, but the frequency with...
9 Ks, 12.5 Percents, 51 Attacks and 20 Crypto Jokes
1.2.2020
This crypto week, we watched Bitcoin play with USD 9K while coronavirus fears weighed on stocks, saw BTC usage rising on darknet markets, found a clear indication of healthy BTC adoption, and discovered that the 51% attack on BTC is pricier and on ETH cheaper. Speaking of ETH, a USD 1.57 million...
Uphold App Now Lets Users Easily Trade Directly Between Over 60 Cryptos, Fiat Currencies and Metals
29.1.2020
The new Uphold mobile app features an ‘Anything to Anything’ interface, which lets users easily trade directly between more than 60 assets. This means that Uphold users in the UK for example, can now directly buy bitcoin cash (BCH) with their local GBP fiat without having to use...
Who Funds Bitcoin Developers?
27.1.2020
Many, many developers have contributed to Bitcoin’s growth since its birth in 2009.
In other words, Bitcoin is the representation of a long line of programming work. Developers have had to look for bugs, write software updates, and assume the vital task of proposing how Bitcoin might evolve.
This...