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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...

Coinbase Becomes First Crypto Company to Get VISA Principal Membership

20.2.2020
In an extremely exciting update for the entire industry, the leading crypto exchange has become the first crypto company to be granted a VISA principal membership. This will help the company to provide more features to the Coinbase Card users in the UK and Europe. The announcement came on Wednesday...

Coinbase Becomes Direct Visa Card Issuer With Principal Membership

19.2.2020
Coinbase is the first crypto company to be offered principal membership with Visa, allowing it to issue its own cards

Coinbase Becomes First ‘Pure’ Crypto Firm Approved as Visa Principal Member

19.2.2020
The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange will have the power to issue payment cards with the new status

Maybe Blockchain Engineering Is Not a Golden Ticket after All

12.2.2020
Are international companies slowing down their once-relentless spate of blockchain hires? A recent report from jobsearch website Hired suggests that new augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) engineering jobs are coming up faster than blockchain engineering posts. The firm claims...

Getting Fancy with position: sticky;

7.2.2020
Mike Solomon worked on a fancy scrollytelling post for Esquire and blogged about it. It has GIFs of each step along the way of figuring out not just position: sticky; but also using negative margins, wrapper divs, backgrounds, and even a smidge of JavaScript measuring to get it all right. What...

Zcash Community Votes to Distribute 20% of Mining Rewards to Infrastructure Development

31.1.2020
The Electric Coin Company, a group that supports the development of Zcash (ZEC), announced the community has voted to distribute 20% of the ZEC network’s mining rewards to infrastructure and marketing development. The ZEC development funding proposal was initiated because the coin’s...

Leading Swiss Stock Exchange Offers 12 Crypto Exchange-Traded Products With One That Shorts Bitcoin

25.1.2020
Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, now has 12 cryptocurrency exchange-traded products listed. The latest addition, the 21shares Short Bitcoin, allows investors to profit from falling prices of the digital currency. Other listed crypto products include those that track...

Why Quantum Computing’s Threat to Crypto May Be Further out Than Previously Thought

22.12.2019
According to one researcher, quantum computing faces more hurdles than many realize when it comes to achieving viability in breaking encryption. In a recent report Dr. Subhash Kak, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University, notes that there are issues...

Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL

6.12.2019
As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL. Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...

Multicoin Capital Hires Principal in Asia as Crypto VCs Look East

6.12.2019
Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, will spearhead the venture firm's hunt for new deals in Asia

Crypto Capital Principal Indicted on Fraud, Confirming Bitfinex Allegations

27.10.2019
Crypto Capital's Oz Yosef has been indicited on three criminal acts, confirming statements made by Bitfinex Friday

Coinbase in Talks to Acquire Rental Startup Omni’s Engineering Staff: Report

7.10.2019
Th cryptocurrency exchange is said to be in talks to acquire the human assets of Omni, a Ripple-backed rental and storage firm

7 Crypto ETPs Now Trading on Main Swiss Stock Exchange

4.10.2019
Switzerland’s principal stock exchange now has seven cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) listed. They allow investors to either gain exposure to individual cryptocurrencies or invest in portfolios of top cryptocurrencies. Four ETPs track the prices of single cryptocurrencies. Also...