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74% of the World’s Bitcoin Mining Operations Driven by Renewable Energy Says Report
7.6.2019
There’s a lot of debate over whether bitcoin mining is bad for the environment. Many bureaucrats and mainstream media pundits claim that mining is wasteful and bitcoin’s energy consumption cannot be ignored. However, these claims have been refuted in the past and on June 6, Coinshares...
Report Insists ‘Bitcoin Was Not Purpose-Built to First Be a Store of Value’
7.6.2019
There’s been furious debate over the last few years on whether or not Satoshi created Bitcoin to be a peer-to-peer cash system or a purpose-built store of value. Lately, a few BTC proponents claim that Satoshi deliberately built Bitcoin to be a store of value (SoV). Despite the SoV narrative...
Blockstream Developers Alleged to Earn $850K Per Year
7.6.2019
There are perks to working for Blockstream, aside from having to answer to Samson Mow. Developers for the Bitcoin Core software company are alleged to earn up to $850K per year thanks to a “stock option” that sees them paid 20% of their salary in BTC. That BTC is pegged at the price...
Snag Resources from An Event Apart Boston 2019 and Save on Washington D.C. Registration
6.6.2019
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Hey, so we talked a little bit about An Event Apart Boston 2019 leading up to the event and now there are a ton of resources available from it. I stopped counting the number of links after 50 because there's way more than that. Seriously, there's stuff in there...
Deploying an Angular App to Netlify
6.6.2019
Netlify is one of the best places to deploy an application or a website today. There is no need to manage a server, NGINX, certificates, or scaling due to hig
India’s Central Bank Denies Knowledge of Bill to Ban Cryptocurrencies
6.6.2019
India’s crypto regulation is reportedly ready and there has been much speculation about what it contains. An Indian lawyer has gotten some answers from the Reserve Bank of India about a bill allegedly seeking to ban cryptocurrencies. Surprisingly, the central bank claims that it does not have...
There’s 100 Unclaimed Bitcoin Cash Wallets Hidden Worldwide
5.6.2019
Over the last few months, the geocaching treasure hunt Findbitcoin.cash has gathered a bunch of new hidden BCH treasures. At the time of publication, there are approximately 105 concealed bitcoin cash wallets hidden all over the world with a large portion of these funds hidden in the U.S....
Creating Animations Using React Spring
4.6.2019
Have you ever needed animation in your React application? Traditionally, implementing animation has not an easy feat to accomplish. But now, thanks to Paul Henschel, we there’s a new React tool just for that. react-spring inherits from animated and react-motion for interpolations, optimized...
IOTA Price Analysis: It’s Again a “RED ALERT” For IOTA (MIOTA) As There Are No “Good Vibes” Indications For It Currently
4.6.2019
The 1 Day chart is showing that IOTA is completely submerged under the bearish zone and there is no positivity of upraising its momentum in the bullish trend currently. Rather, it may further deteriorate in the upcoming days, and the chart is indicating the same. The factors contributing the same...
IP Geolocation API
4.6.2019
Detecting geolocation information from your user provides you a massive advantage: improved conversion, better segmenting and analytics, and providing more relevant content. There are numerous paid services which will provide geolocation info but they’re oftentimes too costly or short...
Bitcoin.com’s Local Bitcoin Cash Marketplace Is Now Open for Trading
4.6.2019
The highly anticipated Local.Bitcoin.com is now available to the general public. As of right now, anyone in the world can use the service to trade bitcoin cash (BCH) securely. Since pre-launch signups were announced last month, thousands of traders have created accounts and there are over 2,200...
OmiseGo Price Analysis: OmiseGo (OMG) Bearish in Short Term; There is a Sense of Overestimation, Focus on Basics is Required
3.6.2019
OmiseGO is endorsed by the Thai Ministry of Finance and Bank of Thailand. Companies like McDonalds and Alipay accept payments in OMG. OmiseGO (OMG) is more of an open-source fintech digital wallet, based on Ethereum chain. It enables any users with features like real-time transactions, peer-to-peer...
Creating Your Own SLP-Based Token Using Memo
3.6.2019
Over the last few months, Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens have been very popular among Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters and there’s been a wide variety of unique tokens created. Since then Memo.cash, the onchain social network built on Bitcoin Cash has revealed users can not only store...
Are We There Yet? 20 Crypto Jokes
1.6.2019
This week turned out intense. Bitcoin got to USD 9,000, only to drop just below USD 8,200 in five hours and then become more difficult to mine than ever. With the Bitcoin spiking all over the place, the community is standing at attention. Meanwhile, there is no such thing as a meme-free week in...
React Async for Declarative Data Fetching
31.5.2019
Generally, there are two ways of writing code: Imperatively/Declaratively and two ways of fetching Data: Synchronously/Asynchronously. We are more convenient with making requests imperatively using
Customer Satisfaction Surveys with Wufoo
30.5.2019
I was once tasked to create a makeshift customer service survey that would allow an employee to receive a customer call and send a survey to the custom once the call ended. The goal was to track customer satisfaction, which is a totally legit thing to want.
There are some solutions out there that...
The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation
29.5.2019
There are a few differences between keyboards and screen readers and Léonie Watson highlights of them:
When using the tab key, keyboard focus and screen reader focus are synchronised with each other. The rest of the time, screen reader users have an enormous range of commands at their disposal...
Share Bitcoin Cash Related Shortlinks Using BCH.gg
29.5.2019
Projects and members of the Bitcoin Cash community often need to share important information with other BCH enthusiasts. If you are involved with the cryptocurrency, there’s a website called BCH.gg you can use to shorten URLs, with each shortlink featuring the BCH name. Also read: How...
G20 Countries Start Implementing Unified Cryptocurrency Standards
29.5.2019
As the G20 summit approaches, member countries have been discussing how to implement the standards set by intergovernmental organizations such as the Financial Action Task Force. While there may be some challenges in complying with the standards, the European Central Bank says the risks crypto...
Dithering U.S. Regulators Risk Causing a Brain Drain to Friendlier Crypto Climes
28.5.2019
Cryptocurrency companies in the United States aren’t happy. Token issuers, exchanges, and VCs are up in arms about vague and contradictory guidance on crypto asset regulation. Should the U.S. fail to update its archaic securities laws, they warn, there is a risk of top talent making an exodus...