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Jamstack Community Survey 2021
13.7.2021
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The folks over at Netlify have opened up the Jamstack Community Survey for 2021. More than 3,000 front-enders like yourself took last year’s survey, which gauged how familiar people are with the …
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Police Set New UK Record Seizing £180 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency
13.7.2021
Britain’s Metropolitan Police have seized a staggering £180 million in cryptocurrency as part of a money laundering investigation. The announcement comes just weeks after Scotland Yard confiscated £114 million in crypto, breaking the previous record. UK Police Discover £180...
Africa Will ‘One Day Have a Common Currency’ Says Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area
13.7.2021
The secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) secretariat, Wamkele Mene, says Africa will “one day have a common currency” via a proposed “Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS).” He adds that such a currency will help “ease...
Your Future PC Might Have A PS5 Chip Inside
12.7.2021
This is the AMD 4700S Desktop Kit, a small piece of hardware that combines a CPU, cooler, and memory on a tiny motherboard. It’s basically a mostly self-contained computer system that will soon be appearing in more than 80 different machines from AMD’s system integration partners. It’s also...
Nigeria’s June P2P Bitcoin Trade Volumes Surged Again Despite Central Bank’s Crypto Restrictions
12.7.2021
Nigeria’s peer-to-peer bitcoin trade volumes went up to just under $38 million in June 2021, the latest data shows. This surge becomes only the second time Nigerian P2P traded volumes have breached the $35 million mark in 2021. March 2021 is the only other period when P2P bitcoin traded...
Parliament of West Africa Economic Block Cautions Against Use of Cryptocurrencies
11.7.2021
The parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has joined the list of African organizations that have cautioned against the use of cryptocurrencies. In its warning to West Africa crypto users, the legislative body insists these digital assets are too volatile and as such...
Ukraine Uncovers Country’s Largest Illegal Mining Farm to Date
10.7.2021
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has located a massive coin minting facility that was illegally connected to the power grid in Vinnytsia. Law enforcement officials claim it’s the largest underground crypto mining farm they have found so far. Ukraine Seizes Thousands of Video Game...
Stock-to-Flow Bitcoin Price Model Criticized as BTC Price Ratio Matches 2019 Statistics
10.7.2021
During the last week, crypto enthusiasts and traders have been discussing the stock-to-flow (S2F) bitcoin price model created by the pseudonymous crypto analyst “Plan B.” Despite Plan B’s worst and best case scenario calls on June 20, a touch over a week later the analyst said...
The Original Half-Life Could Have Had So Much Blood
9.7.2021
The original Half-Life is a pretty tame game from a violence standpoint; headcrabs and other enemies can inspire revulsion in their own ways, but they don’t explode into Mortal Kombat-style gore piñatas when thwacked with a crowbar. But they could have.Read more
Jack Dorsey’s Square Building Bitcoin Hardware Wallet to Make Crypto Custody More Mainstream
9.7.2021
Jack Dorsey’s payments company, Square Inc., has confirmed that it is building a bitcoin hardware wallet and service with the aim to “make bitcoin custody more mainstream.” Square’s Bitcoin Hardware Wallet in the Works Square Inc. is building a hardware wallet, Jesse...
SVG Favicons in Action
9.7.2021
Ever heard of favicons made with SVG? If you are a regular reader of CSS-Tricks, you probably have. But does your website actually use one?
The task is more non-trivial than you might think. As we will see in this …
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After Barclays, Santander Bank Blocks Payments to Binance in UK Citing Customer Protection
9.7.2021
Santander Bank in the U.K. has become the latest high street bank in the country to block fund transfers to cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Recently, Barclays and Natwest banks reportedly made a similar move. A number of Santander Bank customers reported on social media that they have received...
Using Decentralized Digital IDs and Blockchain to Help Millions in Africa Get Identified
9.7.2021
With over 1.3 billion inhabitants, Africa accounts for over 16% of the world’s population. However, the continent still falls short when it comes to providing its residents with legitimate or government-issued identification documents. As some studies have revealed, as many as 400 million...
Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna
8.7.2021
Command line tools are one of the most popular applications we have today. We use command line tools every day, and they range from git, npm or yarn. Command line tools are very fast and useful for automating applications and …
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Bitcoin Sinks Below $33K, Analyst Says BTC at ‘Dangerously Low Levels’ While ETH Rests at ‘Comfortable Levels’
8.7.2021
Bitcoin and a number of popular digital assets have been dropping in value over the past 24 hours, as bitcoin has slipped below the $33K handle. The entire market capitalization of all 10,000+ crypto assets in existence has shed billions during the overnight trading sessions, and the crypto economy...
82% of Institutional Investors Plan to Increase Cryptocurrency Exposure: Survey
8.7.2021
A survey by Nickel Digital Asset Management shows that 82% of institutional investors and wealth managers are planning to increase their cryptocurrency exposure between now and 2023. The survey reportedly asked institutional investors and wealth managers from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,...
Robinhood COO: We have enabled more women to trade crypto
7.7.2021
Gretchen Howard described crypto investments "stereotyped as a male-dominated space,” but she has seen significant growth for women during her two years at Robinhood
Chinese Bank Employees Told to Entice 300 Customers to Use the Digital Yuan
7.7.2021
In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-owned banks have asked staff to recruit 200 to...
The Web’s Worst Default
7.7.2021
There are a lot of great defaults when it comes to browsers and the web. Think about all the accessibility features that are baked into HTML so that you don’t have to do weird stuff, like this example from Manuel…
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Musée – the User Owned NFT Marketplace and Gallery
7.7.2021
2021 continues to bear witness to the continual rise in non-fungible token (NFT) prevalence and innovation. Following on from 2020 – where the NFT market was claimed to have tripled in total transaction value – NFT sales in just the first quarter of 2021 reached over a whopping...