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1,000 Decade-Old Dormant Bitcoins Moved Today on Bitcoin’s 12th Anniversary
3.1.2021
12 years ago, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network after revealing the cryptocurrency concept via the white paper a few months prior. At approximately 18:15:05 UTC, the network launched its first block and since then, over 664,000 bitcoin blocks have been mined. Moreover...
Bitcoin mining: The next decade of sustainable crypto innovation begins today
29.12.2020
The crypto mining industry has had a phenomenal record of growth and innovation over the past decade, but this is just the beginning
10-Year-Old Block Rewards Wake Up: Data Parsers Catch a String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins from 2010 Spent Today
27.12.2020
On December 27, at around 2 a.m. in the morning (EST), another large string of decade-old sleeping bitcoins was transferred. The miner spent 20 block rewards that were originally mined in 2010, and also spent the corresponding bitcoin cash block rewards as well. The bitcoins moved are worth well...
Recognizing Constraints
22.12.2020
There’s a “C” word in web development that we don’t give enough attention to. No, I’m not talking about “continuous integration”, or even “CSS”. The “C” word I’m talking about is “constraints”. Understanding constraints is a vital part of building software that works the best it can in its targeted...
Bitcoin Addresses Holding $1 Million Goes ‘Parabolic,’ 10% of BTC Supply Sits Idle for 10 Years
18.12.2020
While bitcoin trades above the $20k handle, onchain data shows that the number of bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 million has climbed substantially increasing by more than 150%. Moreover, Glassnode’s statistics indicate that roughly 1.85 million bitcoin hasn’t moved in over...
2020 was not a good year for learning
10.12.2020
There, I said it.
What did I learn about building websites in 2020? A lot. But what I learned is not nearly as important as how I learned it. So instead, I want to share a couple of strategies I used to unblock learning in less-than-ideal times.
I spent almost a decade teaching design and, let...
KP2R Network: A Decentralized Marketplace for Developers
27.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. The past decade has witnessed a revolution in traditional finance led by the utilization of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology has shown greater use cases since the development of leading coin Bitcoin. It has been used in different sectors of world economics including...
Warning: Physical Cash Will Be Mostly Gone by the End of the Decade
19.11.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...
20 More Block Rewards from 2010 Spent Today— Why Are Decade-Old Bitcoins Waking Up?
8.11.2020
Following the 21 coinbase rewards from 2010 spent on November 7, another long string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ mined a decade ago were transferred on Sunday morning. According to onchain data, the 20 block rewards from 2010 with 1,000 BTC were transferred at 4:02 a.m. EST. A...
Digital Euro Within Decade ‘Very Likely,’ Says Finland’s Chief Central Banker
16.10.2020
Olli Rehn believes a digital euro "in one form or another" is all but inevitable
$12M in ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber
11.10.2020
On early Sunday morning around 1:38:02 a.m. (New York time), approximately 20 blocks with coinbase rewards from 2010 were spent in one block. 1,000 BTC was then consolidated into a single address before moving again. The massive movement of the decade-old ‘sleeping’ bitcoins was caught...
The Search for Satoshi Nakamoto: A Look at 7 Suspected Bitcoin Creators
7.10.2020
During the last decade, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have discussed the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day, the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery continues to prevail, and throughout the years there’s been a great number of suspects and self-proclaimed crypto...
Fiat inflation has cost Bitcoin hodlers 20% over the past decade
2.10.2020
Since 2010, inflation has turned $1 into 84 cents while $1 invested in Bitcoin would be worth $274,000
The UN’s ‘decade of delivery’ needs blockchain to succeed
26.9.2020
Emerging technologies are essential to fasten SDGs, but this shouldn’t come at the expense of prudence and careful evaluation
Remove the Search Input Clear(x) Icon
21.9.2020
I really appreciate the amount of different <input> elements we’ve received over the past decade. These elements don’t just bring a new semantic advantage, but also provide UI helpers, which in many cases are useful. In a recent case, I found a UI element not useful: the x (clear)...
The Decade of the Living Dead: How Zombie Companies Are Robbing Tomorrow’s Economy
15.9.2020
The percentage of companies that can’t afford to pay the interest on their debt has reached a new all-time high in the wake of central bank intervention
DeFi is a 'once in a decade investment opportunity': True or false?
11.9.2020
DeFi could be a huge investment opportunity, a bubble ready to burst, or both
Microstrategy’s $250 Million Bitcoin Buy Consequential
2.9.2020
When a publicly owned company decides to invest about $250 million in an asset that was widely attacked more than a decade ago, it says a lot about how the world has changed. The reasons and the timing of Microstrategy’s bitcoin incursion could not have come at a better time for...
Pomp Thinks BTC’s Market Cap Will Exceed Gold’s in Less Than a Decade
17.8.2020
That would give Bitcoin a market cap of at least $9 trillion dollars
Lazy Load IFRAMEs
13.7.2020
We’ve known for a decade that lazy loading resources like JavaScript, CSS, and especially images is a massive performance win for web pages. At first we used tricks and JavaScript to do the lazy loading, but more recently native image lazy loading has debuted in browsers. Did you know that...