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A possible privacy CBDC
23.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 18 December, 2019 “Never assume the obvious is true.” - William Safire In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Stanford University funding blockchain startup touted as the 'Microsoft for blockchain' ECB believes that a private payment...
A possible privacy CBDC
18.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 18 December, 2019 “Never assume the obvious is true.” - William Safire In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Stanford University funding blockchain startup touted as the 'Microsoft for blockchain' ECB believes that a...
How I’ve Improved as a Web Developer (and a Person) in 2019
11.12.2019
We’re sliding into the roaring twenties of the twenty-first century (cue Jazz music 🎷). It’s important that you and I, as responsible people, follow the tradition of looking back on the past year and reflect on the things that went right and wrong in the hopes of becoming the best version...
Just Sharing My Gulpfile
11.12.2019
Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I'd run my watch command, change some CSS, and the processing would sometimes leave behind some extra files that were meant to be cleaned up during the processing. Like the cleanup tasks...
Never Mind Adoption, This was a Year of Steady Infrastructural Progress
11.12.2019
As the blockchain stack matures, we’ll look back on 2019 as the start of the blockchain adoption journey
The Darknet Just Had One of Its Wildest Months Yet
3.12.2019
Darknet marketplaces exist on a constant knife edge, never more than an exit scam, LE bust, or DDoS away from going down. Even by their usual frenetic standards, though, November was quite a month for DNMs, with high drama and intrigue aplenty. Despite a number of marketplaces disappearing off...
Masking GIFs with other GIFs
3.12.2019
The other day, Cassie Evans tweeted a really neat trick that I’ve never seen before: using SVG to mask one GIF on top of another. The effect is quite lovely, especially if you happen to grab a colorful GIF and place it on top of a monochrome one:
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Film Reveals Never-Before-Seen Information About the Silk Road Case
1.12.2019
On November 26, a new Silk Road video was published that reveals underreported and never-before-seen information. The film called the “Silk Road Case: The Real, Untold Story” contains over 400 references to direct evidence from a wide range of sources. The organization Freeross.org...
Image Lazy Loading
25.11.2019
Lazy loading images is a practice that’s been popular for a decade and for good reason: images are usually the heaviest downloads on a given webpage and avoiding unloading images that are never seen saves the user bandwidth. There are plugins for lazy loading images in every JavaScript...
‘Lost Coins’ Study Estimates BTC’s True Supply
19.11.2019
Many people like the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto introduced a capped supply of 21 million coins when he created the Bitcoin protocol. However, there’s been a lot of speculation aimed at guessing the number of ‘lost coins’ that will never be spent. On November 19, the digital...
IRS: Like-Kind Tax Exemption Has Never Applied to Crypto Transactions
14.11.2019
U.S. taxpayers have never been authorized to postpone paying tax using the like-kind exchange principle, an IRS official says
Generation QE: How Central Banks Create Money From Thin Air
11.11.2019
This year the public has seen a lot of the expansive monetary policy taking place with 37 central banks participating in monetary easing. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand the methods central banks like the Federal Reserve use to increase the money supply and never take the time...
ICE chief believes Bitcoin can become digital gold but only if this happens
4.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 1 November, 2019 Bravery “Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare November is here! Wow, down to the last 2 months of […]
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ICE chief believes Bitcoin can become digital gold but only if this happens
4.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 1 November, 2019 Bravery “Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare November is here! Wow, down to the last 2 months of […]
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Bad Loans at Big British Banks Jump Over 50% in a Year
4.11.2019
Shaken by the never-ending saga around Brexit and the global slowdown, the British economy is now showing signs that point to an upcoming crisis. The U.K.’s biggest banks have been dealing with a growing number of loans companies are struggling to pay off. At the same time, low interest rates...
Why Governments Can Never Stop Crypto
3.11.2019
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.
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Many people argue that cryptocurrencies will never be accepted as...
Losing time
31.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 31 October, 2019 Spend it wisely “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin It's the last day of October! Finish strong! ???? Today in history (1941), Mount Rushmore was finished […]
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Satoshi’s Final Messages Leave Tantalizing Clues to His Disappearance
30.10.2019
As Jameson Lopp once quipped, the smartest thing Satoshi did after creating Bitcoin was to disappear. The question isn’t ‘why did Satoshi disappear?’ but rather ‘why then?’ Was Satoshi’s departure in early 2011 scheduled long in advance, or did unforeseen events...
Why Central Banks Are Not Designed for Democracies
29.10.2019
Through their policies, central banks exert tremendous influence over the socio-economic conditions in a country and its business environment. Their decisions are so powerful that it’s obvious they are part of the government. But most people would be surprised to find out that central banks...
How Hard Is It to Brute Force a Bitcoin Private Key?
28.10.2019
Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster you’ll never get there. Despite being as next to impossible as impossible gets, using a brute force attack to crack a bitcoin private key remains an intriguing...