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Thai Stellar-Based Startup Lightnet Raises $31M to Replace SWIFT
10.1.2020
Thai blockchain startup Lightnet raises $31 million to replace “inefficient” payments like SWIFT in Southeast Asian countries
Low Interest Rates Provide Precarious Protection Against Crisis, World Bank Warns
10.1.2020
The latest global debt wave is the largest in the past five decades, the World Bank has acknowledged in a new report. The international institution notes that previous waves of broad-based debt accumulation lead to widespread financial crises. Historically low interest rates this time might not...
Understanding Async Await
9.1.2020
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so we'll need a way to handle those long-running processes.
Async/Await is a way to handle this type of time-based sequencing. It’s especially great...
This Company Sets Out to Prove Crypto Mining Has a Place in Your Home
9.1.2020
Hotmine, a company based in Ukraine which engineers home appliances for crypto enthusiasts, is not new to mining equipment development. But sometimes it takes the right time and the right technology to be able to create and offer solutions that consumers would be willing to buy and use. Thanks...
ThunderCore Transforming Crypto Gaming With Blockchain-based Applications
9.1.2020
ThunderCore has been altering the crypto gaming industry practices with its blockchain-based applications. In recent months, this public blockchain platform has launched its first crypto game ExoPlanets. ExoPlanets is the first 3D virtual reality MMO game, which is blockchain-powered. It gives...
The Auto-Flowing Powers of Grid’s Dense Keyword
8.1.2020
Let's say we're working on the homepage of a news website. You're probably used to seeing some card-based content in a grid layout, right? Here's a classic example, The New York Times:
Yeah, something like that.
There are going to be some cards/elements/boxes/whatever that need to take up more...
Japanese Firms SBI and GMO Join the Digital Gold Rush in Texas
8.1.2020
The city of Rockdale, Texas is attracting attention again, similar to the interest the region saw back in the fifties when the Alcoa aluminum smelting facility set up shop. These days, Rockdale’s change is due to the influx of bitcoin miners coming to town from all around the world....
Chipmaking Giant Samsung Reveals 3nm Semiconductor Prototype
6.1.2020
In mid-December, Intel revealed that the company expects to design 2nm and 1.4 nm semiconductors by 2029. During the same timeframe, regional sources reported Canaan and Bitmain will reveal new mining rigs this year equipped with TSMC-based 5nm chips. Now, competition is growing stronger as Samsung...
IBM and Fair Trade Initiative Demo Blockchain-Based Coffee Tracking App
6.1.2020
IBM and Farmer Connect debuted a blockchain app that allows consumers to monitor the coffee supply chain
New SLP Telegram Bots Introduced to Bitcoin Cash Supporters
4.1.2020
The Bitcoin Cash community was recently introduced to two new Telegram bots that use Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens within the messenger application. There’s a new SLP Telegram-based dice bot that claims to provide provably fair gaming and a developer has also launched an SLP dividend...
South Korean Telecoms Giant SK to Unveil Ripple-based Charity Tool
3.1.2020
South Korean telecoms giant SK is set to debut a new blockchain-powered donations platform it has developed using Ripple technology. The company has been working on the platform since summer last year – and has now opened it for SK Group employees.
The platform is named ChainZ, and uses the Ripple...
Electra Pilots Blockchain-Based Financial Management System – Can It Compete?
3.1.2020
Electra project to beta-test ElectraPay, a cryptocurrency payment system for merchants
Tron-Based Tether Has Ballooned to Over 900 Million Tokens, Almost 22% of Total Supply
2.1.2020
Since Tether’s (USDT) migration to other networks beside the BTC-based Omni protocol, significant shifts have taken place seeing the heavily-printed stablecoin rise to prominence also via Ethereum’s ERC20 standard and Tron’s TRC20 implementation. Ethereum-based USDT supply...
Alleged $8B BTC Tulip Trust Expires With Tales of Bonded Couriers
1.1.2020
Five years ago, the crypto community became aware of an alleged contract called the Tulip Trust. The supposed contract emerged when a few tech-based news outlets published stories on two former business partners Craig Wright and David Kleiman. According to the Tulip Trust contract story, Wright...
Curv Provides Keyless Cryptography-based Wallet Solutions for Institutional Clients
1.1.2020
For anyone who has been in quite active in the cryptocurrency, the arena will be well-aware of the importance “private keys and public keys” hold for an investor. The combination of a public key and a private key is what makes a wallet address, which serves as the destination where one can send...
A Recap of Frontend Development in 2019
1.1.2020
I noted Trey Huffine’s 2018 version of this article in The Great Divide.
To put a point on this divide a bit more, consider this article by Trey Huffine, "A Recap of Frontend Development in 2018." It's very well done! It points to big moments this year, shows interesting data, and makes...
A Recap of Frontend Development in 2019
1.1.2020
I noted Trey Huffine’s 2018 version of this article in The Great Divide.
To put a point on this divide a bit more, consider this article by Trey Huffine, "A Recap of Frontend Development in 2018." It's very well done! It points to big moments this year, shows interesting data, and makes...
Veriblock Captured Close to 60% of BTC’s OP Return Transactions in 2019
1.1.2020
During the course of 2019, the most used BTC-based OP_Return protocol, Veriblock, outshined Omni Layer outputs. According to statistics, Veriblock captured 57% of BTC’s OP_Return outputs in 2019. Ever since the protocol’s opcodes started dominating, a number of BTC influencers called...
DLive Joins BitTorrent Ecosystem to Make Blockchain-Based Content Sharing Mainstream
30.12.2019
DLive joins BitTorrent, bringing blockchain-based content sharing to 100 million monthly active users
So Many Color Links
27.12.2019
There's been a run of tools, articles, and resources about color lately. Please allow me to close a few tabs by rounding them up here for your enjoyment.
Curated colors in context
Happy Hues demonstrates a bunch of color palettes in the context of the site itself. That's a nice way to do...