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Bretton Woods 2.0 is knocking at our door, and it’s not here to help
22.11.2020
A second Bretton Woods era will be even more centralized and even further from a true democracy
Blockchain is good for hodling, but not for voting: Bad Crypto news of the week
21.11.2020
Analysts make a slew of wild predictions as Bitcoin continues its moon mission in this week's Bad Crypto podcast
MicroStrategy Wants to Be in the Bitcoin Business, Not Just an Investor
20.11.2020
MicroStrategy executives are on the hunt for blockchain experts who could help the publicly traded firm build a suite of bitcoin data services
German Finance Minister Says He Does Not Support Private Cryptos: Report
20.11.2020
Olaf Scholz said banks need to adapt for a digital world but seemed to rule out private digital currencies from that future
Players Prefer Cashing Out in Bitcoin Amid Rally, Says Online Poker Giant
20.11.2020
Winning Poker Network said it's having to buy more bitcoin than ever to satisfy payout demand from players
console.log({ myVariable });
19.11.2020
I think this might be my most popular tweet of all time, but I’m not sure how to verify that these days. I’ll restate this neat little trick here because blogging is cool and fun.
I used to do this a lot while debugging JavaScript:
console.log("myVariable: ", myVariable);
But now I...
Who watches the watchmen? Crypto may not be as trustless as it seems
19.11.2020
Crypto is often seen as trustless and failproof. But as more regulation, venues and developers come aboard, just how trustless is it really?
Color Theming with CSS Custom Properties and Tailwind
19.11.2020
Custom properties not only enable us to make our code more efficient, but allow us to work some real magic with CSS too. One area where they have huge potential is theming. At Atomic Smash we use Tailwind CSS, a utility class framework, for writing our styles. In this article, we’ll look at...
Not just Wall Street: Quant trader explains why Bitcoin price is going up
19.11.2020
Alameda Research's Sam Trabucco pinpoints four main factors that are pushing the price of Bitcoin toward its all-time high
HODL your horses, Bitcoin options data says $18.5K is not a local top
18.11.2020
Investors are afraid of a 2019-style 30% Bitcoin price drop, but options data suggest $18.5K is not the top
‘Not My Cup of Tea’: Jamie Dimon Is Still Not a Bitcoin Fan
18.11.2020
The JPMorgan Chase CEO said its only a matter of time before the government moves to regulate bitcoin
Bitcoin Touches $18K, Crypto Asset Looks to Smash All-Time High, ETH Price Could Spike 20x
18.11.2020
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, the price of bitcoin has been coasting along at levels not seen since the decentralized currency’s all-time high three years ago in 2017. The cryptocurrency’s market capitalization is currently hovering at around $334 billion today. Likewise, the daily...
Not dead yet: Bitcoin Cash ABC up 70% as Sechet releases new client
18.11.2020
After being steamrolled in Bitcoin Cash’s most recent hash war, Bitcoin ABC shows signs of life with a new client release and a 70% rebound in price off a low base
Bitcoin price blasts by $17.5K, but not all agree rally is sustainable
17.11.2020
Analysts explain where Bitcoin is headed next after it breaks $17,500 and continues to see an explosive uptrend
A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients
17.11.2020
Like how you can use the background-color property in CSS to declare a solid color background, you can use the background-image property not only to declare image files as backgrounds but gradients as well. Using CSS gradients is better for control and performance than using an actual image (of...
CSS Background Patterns
17.11.2020
Nice little tool from Jim Raptis: CSS Background Patterns. A bunch of easy-to-customize and copy-and-paste backgrounds that use hard stop CSS gradients to make classy patterns. Not quite as flexible as SVG backgrounds, but just as lightweight.
Like this:
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COVID-19 popularized decentralization, but blockchain may not catch on
16.11.2020
Some predicted the pandemic would provide the “perfect storm” for blockchain adoption. Did they overpromise?
Mixing Colors in Pure CSS
16.11.2020
Red + Blue = Purple… right?
Is there some way to express that in CSS? Well, not easily. There is a proposal draft for a color-mix function and some degree of interest from Chrome, but it doesn’t seem right around the corner. It would be nice to have native CSS color mixing, as it would give...
Crypto firms still not widely adopting ‘travel rule,’ says FATF deputy
16.11.2020
David Lewis, executive secretary and G20 deputy at the Financial Action Task Force, says crypto firms still have a long way to go before they're compliant
MIT cybersecurity experts do not trust blockchain-based voting systems
16.11.2020
“I haven't yet seen a blockchain system that I would trust with a county-fair jellybean count, much less a presidential election.”