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The Many Facts Pointing to Dorian Nakamoto Being Satoshi
17.2.2020
In March 2014, a Newsweek columnist named Leah McGrath Goodman published a story called “The Face Behind Bitcoin.” She claimed Bitcoin’s inventor was a retired physicist named Dorian Nakamoto. When Goodman arrived at Dorian’s home in California, he said he was “no...
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Are ‘Like a Giant Garbage Dumpster,’ Says Minneapolis Federal Reserve President
13.2.2020
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, said on Tuesday that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are “like a giant garbage dumpster.” He would rather his one-year-old daughter have a low yielding Treasury bond than a bitcoin, emphasizing that...
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Gives Testimony on Cryptocurrency, New Regulations Rolling Out Soon
13.2.2020
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gave his testimony on cryptocurrency before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. Mnuchin said crypto is a “crucial area” that the Treasury has spent a lot of time on. He also talked about stablecoins and announced that new crypto regulations...
Building an Images Gallery using PixiJS and WebGL
12.2.2020
Sometimes, we have to go a little further than HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create the UI we need, and instead use other resources, like SVG, WebGL, canvas and others.
For example, the most amazing effects can be created with WebGL, because...
From Star Trek to Wikipedia: Crashing Bitcoin SV Fails to Impress
11.2.2020
The Bitcoin SV network and the infamous Craig Wright have been publicly scrutinized by two well known individuals. Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales criticized BSV technology and said he doesn’t think recorded data from Wikipedia would be beneficial stored on a blockchain like BSV. Moreover...
“What You Said” (Feb. 11), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
11.2.2020
Welcome back to our new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community andContinue Reading
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“What You Said” (Feb. 11), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
11.2.2020
Welcome back to our new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community andContinue Reading
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“What You Said” (Feb. 11), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
11.2.2020
Welcome back to our new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community andContinue Reading
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Ethereum vs Tron: Comparing Data, Defi and Stablecoins from Both Chains After Viral Tweet
9.2.2020
On February 7, Cold Card and Opendime creator, Rodolfo Novak (also known as NVK), tweeted a picture of himself with Tron founder Justin Sun and Blockstream’s CEO Adam Back. Novak said “Ethereum was over” and the three had a plan to move Tron to Liquid, a network that leverages...
Fear Grips Stock Market Traders While Cryptocurrency Investors Become Greedy
4.2.2020
The clash of two emotions, fear and greed, is said to determine investors’ sentiment. This ratio draws a historical picture of the market and it’s also an indicator of its future state. As an established trend, traditional investments such as stocks and digital assets like...
‘What You Said’ – Feb. 3, 2020
3.2.2020
Welcome to a new weekly blog series “What You Said” where we conduct fun polls to our community and shareContinue Reading
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“What You Said” (Feb. 3), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
3.2.2020
Welcome to a new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community and shareContinue Reading
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“What You Said” (Feb. 3), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
3.2.2020
Welcome to a new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community and shareContinue Reading
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Police Forces in Belgium, France and Israel Stop Scam Promising 35% Returns on Crypto Investments
2.2.2020
Police forces in Belgium, France and Israel have reportedly put a stop to an international scam promising high returns of up to 35% on crypto investments. A big French private company and a French local authority are said to be among the 85 victims of this network. In total, 10 suspects related...
US Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Says Regulations Cannot Impede Crypto, Affirms Priorities
1.2.2020
Andrew Yang, who is running for U.S. president in the 2020 election, has explained what his priorities will be regarding cryptocurrency under his administration. He said that crypto investors are finding a way to make use of their investments and regulations cannot impede it. Yang advocates for...
Google Executive From India Joins Coinbase as Chief Product Officer
31.1.2020
A Google executive from India has joined Coinbase as the new chief product officer after 11 years at Google. He aims to help Coinbase make cryptocurrency mainstream. “I am excited about what crypto and blockchain technology can do to democratize our financial systems,” the executive...
The Best Color Functions in CSS?
20.1.2020
I've said before that HSL is the best color format we have. Most of us aren't like David DeSandro, who can read hex codes. HSL(a) is Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and alpha, if we need it.
hsl(120, 100%, 40%)
Hue isn't intuitive, but it's not that weird. You take a trip around the color wheel from...
In Defence of “Serverless” —the term
14.1.2020
Ben Ellerby:
For now Serverless, to me at least, manages to do a hard job, defining the borders of a very fluid and complex space of possible solutions in which we can build next-generation architectures. It would help if there was not a framework of the same name, it would help if people didn’t...
Why do we have different programming languages?
13.1.2020
"But why do I have to learn Python?" She wailed, "I like Scratch!"
"I know," I said, "But there are different programming languages for different sorts of tasks."
"That's stupid" she said
I can empathize with the little girl in Terence Eden's story. In high school, I got super into Turbo Pascal....
let vs. const
9.1.2020
There are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript. We had var, and while that still works like it always has, it is generally said that let and const are replacements to the point we rarely (if ever) need var anymore. This doodle explanation does a pretty good job, if you need...