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Dharma Launches Feature for Sending Dai Payments to Twitter Handles
23.4.2020
Dharma, an Ethereum-based crypto lender, has released a new feature that allows sending stablecoin to Twitter handles.
This peer-to-peer lending platform has announced the launch of Social Payments, which they describe as a Twitter-native financial ecosystem. They go on to say that this new service...
Ripple Sues Youtube For Allowing Scams That Promised Returns Up to $1 Million
22.4.2020
Ripple is suing Youtube, accusing the video platform of not doing enough to eliminate crypto-related “giveaway” scams. The payment network wants to force Youtube to protect its users from such scams. Some scammers promise returns up to 5 million XRP or about $930,000 at current prices...
Dharma Enables ‘Social Payments’ to Send Dollars via Global Twitter Handles
22.4.2020
Dharma enables users to send U.S. dollar payments by global Twitter handles
Crude Oil Plunges to Negative Value; Crypto Influencers Took to Twitter to Share Reviews
21.4.2020
It won’t be wrong to say that the fluctuations in the value of crude oil inflict a direct or an indirect impact on all the major industrial domains in the global parlance. Recently, the price of crude oil steeped down to a historic low value of negative $3 per barrel, leaving the biggies of...
Bitcoin Correction Fears, Libra U-Turn, Maker Sued: Hodler’s Digest, April 13–19
19.4.2020
In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, Libra’s massive U-turn, Bitcoin in danger of a massive correction, and crypto-friendly Square gets green light from U.S. government
More Industry Players Weigh in on Bitcoin's Path Once Businesses Reopen
17.4.2020
As the U.S. considers lifting coronavirus prevention measures, two more industry players weigh the event's impact on Bitcoin's price
Mark Cuban and Tyler Winklevoss Squabble Over Bitcoin Complexity
17.4.2020
Mark Cuban and Tyler Winklevoss squabble over Bitcoin’s complexity
Crypto Telegram and Tweet Numbers Are Down, But There’s Hope Yet
17.4.2020
Members in cryptocurrency groups on Telegram fell between 25–75% for the last two years, but engagement on crypto Twitter has been flat
Thank You, Christopher Schmitt
16.4.2020
It’s incredibly sad that Christopher Schmitt passed away last week¹. I keep thinking about how Christopher was one of the best dudes I knew. Just incredibly kind and thoughtful all the way through. I know everyone says that about people after they pass, but I really mean it here. I’m...
The WebAIM Million—Updated
8.4.2020
This report made a big splash last year. It’s a large chunk of research that shows just how terribly the web does with accessibility. It’s been updated this year and (drumroll…) we got a little worse. I’ll use their blockquote:
The number of errors increased 2.1% between...
Deutsche Bank Envisions Post Covid-19 Economy Accelerating Digital Payments
8.4.2020
Since the covid-19 outbreak wreaked havoc across the world’s economies, the global multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank has been encouraging the use of digital currencies. The firm’s Twitter account and macro strategist Marion Laboure have been tweeting regularly about...
UFC Fighter Changes Twitter Name to Promote Bitcoin Halving
8.4.2020
One prominent sports figure is doing all he can to promote the Bitcoin halving to his 311,000 followers
Jack Dorsey Donates 28% of His Wealth to Global COVID-19 Relief
7.4.2020
Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion to global COVID-19 relief — pledges to uproot existential problems facing the world
Blind Faith in S2F Models: Analysts Question Measuring Bitcoin’s Price With Stock-to-Flow
6.4.2020
One of the most bullish charts for predicting the price of bitcoin is the infamous stock-to-flow (S2F) model. The S2F analysis shows the price of BTC could reach $55,000 in the near future. One advocate of the S2F model, the Twitter account known as ‘Plan B,’ wrote a report about...
Rethinking Code Comments
2.4.2020
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by default and require a click to reveal:
What a neat idea! Justin’s design reminds me of the way that Instapaper treated inline...
Economist Jeffrey Tucker: ‘Can You Imagine BTC Price If It Had Scaled?’
1.4.2020
Ethereum and Blockstream’s leaders weighed into a debate sparked by economist Jeffrey Tucker, who claimed the BTC price is lower than it should be due to issues with scaling
[aktualita] Jeden z "otců internetu" Vint Cerf je nakažený COVID-19. Léčím se, napsal na Twitter
31.3.2020
„Měl jsem pozitivní test na COVID-19 a léčím se,“ napsal na Twitteru 76letý informatik, který je pokládán za jednu z klíčových osobností, které utvářely podobu internetu. Vint Cerf je spoluautorem protokolu TCP/IP, na kterém počítačová síť dodnes stojí. Od roku 2005 pracuje pro Google. Cerf...
Bitcoin Ascends on Twitter While Major Altcoins Hit Multi-Year Lows
27.3.2020
Major altcoins find their tweet-counts nearing three-year lows while Bitcoin gobbles up Twitter real-estate
Did You Know the Ordered List Element Has Start and Reversed Attributes?
24.3.2020
I sure didn't! Tomek Sułkowsi shows how we can reverse the numbering of ordered lists with a simple HTML attribute:
<ol reversed<liApple</li<liBanana</li<liPear</li</ol
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And the start attribute can be added to begin the list at a number other...
Emojis as Favicons
24.3.2020
Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG <text element and use that as the favicon.
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how...