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Digital Yuan Recipient Says Chinese CBDC Is ‘Just Like Using Alipay’
14.10.2020
Many of the recipients of the recent digital yuan giveaway have spoken out to news agencies and on social media as the first non-testbed users of the forthcoming central bank digital currency (CBDC) start spending their tokens – with some stating that using the token is “no different” from using...
Let’s Create Our Own Authentication API with Nodejs and GraphQL
13.10.2020
Authentication is one of the most challenging tasks for developers just starting with GraphQL. There are a lot of technical considerations, including what ORM would be easy to set up, how to generate secure tokens and hash passwords, and even what HTTP library to use and how to use it. 
In...
Regrets — Ripple’s CTO sold 40,000 Ether for just $1 each
13.10.2020
Ripple’s David Schwartz has revealed that he sold 40,000 Ether at $1 each as part of a risk management plan made with his spouse in 2012
Run Gulp as You Open a VS Code Project
13.10.2020
When I open my local project for this very site, there is a 100% chance that I need to run this command before anything else: gulp. I set that up fresh less than a year ago so I’m on the latest-and-greatest stuff and have my workflow just how I like it. I did a few more tweaks a few months...
Things just got MESSy for potential Ethereum Classic 51% attackers
12.10.2020
Ethereum Classic is using an idea Vitalik Buterin had in 2014 to help fend off 51% attackers
The Silk Road Balance Sheet Discrepancy: Bitcoin Worth $4.8 Billion Still Missing
12.10.2020
The original Silk Road marketplace has been shut down for well over seven years now and to this day, 444,000 bitcoin worth $4.8 billion is still missing. Just recently, a report focused on those funds discusses one of the market’s biggest mysteries and how people have seemingly forgotten...
The first-ever mining hardware marketplace just launched
12.10.2020
This company presents an alternative to "sketchy" Telegram channels for second-hand mining equipment
How to Recreate the Ripple Effect of Material Design Buttons
12.10.2020
When I first discovered Material Design, I was particularly inspired by its button component. It uses a ripple effect to give users feedback in a simple, elegant way.
How does this effect work? Material Design’s buttons don’t just sport a neat ripple animation, but the animation also...
Here Are the Top Public Companies That Have Adopted Bitcoin as a Reserve Asset
11.10.2020
When Microstrategy Inc. bought $425 million bitcoin in the last two months, the decision became an important stamp of institutional approval of the top crypto’s credentials as a mature, safe-haven asset. The American technology firm had just made bitcoin its primary reserve asset to hedge...
Dogecoin Rhymes the NEGATIVE Movement Just Like Any Other Altcoin
7.10.2020
Dogecoin, at the time of writing this analysis was seen trading at $0.002600 and just like any other altcoin including the largest cryptocurrency of the market—Bitcoin, Dogecoin appears to be no exception. Compared to the YTD high marked above $0.005500, DOGE/USD appears bearish at the time...
SBI Takes Over TaoTao Exchange That Just Ditched Binance
7.10.2020
SBI’s chief executive Yoshitaka Kitao. One of Japan’s biggest financial companies, the SBI Group, has made a major move in the domestic market, snapping up a controlling stake in the TaoTao crypto exchange from Yahoo Japan.
The size of the deal was not disclosed, but TaoTao (previously known...
39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla
6.10.2020
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell in love with Mozilla — a browser that...
Using JavaScript to Adjust Saturation and Brightness of RGB Colors
6.10.2020
Lately I’ve been taking a look into designing with color (or “colour” as we spell it where I’m from in New Zealand). Looking at Adam Wathan and Steve Schroger’s advice on the subject, we find that we’re going to need more than just five nice looking hex codes from a color palette...
On the Web Share API
6.10.2020
I think the Web Share API is very cool (here’s our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you’re on, if that platform supports it. So essentially…
I like this:
Web Share API activated on iOS
A heck of a lot more than these...
Abkhazia Lifts Two-Year Ban on Bitcoin Mining, Moves to Regulate the Sector
3.10.2020
Abkhazia, the self-governing but disputed territory of just 245,000 people sandwiched between Russia and Georgia, has lifted its two-year ban on cryptocurrency mining. The ban came into effect in December 2018 after a surge in mining activity left the region facing an energy crisis. Now,...
Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser
2.10.2020
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, gosh, self, I wish I could have an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of this CSS selector, Lea has your back.
If you’ve ever thought that same thing for an entire CSS file, that’s what PostCSS is, which has gone v8. PostCSS doesn’t do anything...
It looks like the SEC isn't done with trading app Abra just yet
1.10.2020
The SEC's investigation into the crypto trading firm, which paid fines of $300,000 in July, apparently continues
Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)
30.9.2020
Our tools for vertical alignment have gotten a lot better as of late. My early days as a website designer involved laying out 960px wide homepage designs and aligning things horizontally across a page using a 12-column grid. Media queries came along which required a serious mental shift. It solved...
Uniswap Captures $2 Billion Locked, Dex Volume Outpaces Second-Largest Centralized Exchange
30.9.2020
The decentralized exchange (dex) built on Ethereum, Uniswap has accumulated a whopping $2 billion in total value locked (TVL) this week. Tuesday’s data shows out of all the decentralized finance (defi) application’s Uniswap dominates the $11 billion landscape by over 18%. Just recently...
Coinbase’s New Policy: Anti-Woke or Just a Joke?
29.9.2020
CEO Brian Armstrong’s letter has not just the crypto world but the larger world of tech and business talking about the role of corporations in society