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[aktualita] Dopravní podnik konečně předává aktuální data o poloze pražských tramvají
31.12.2020
Po letech výmluv začal pražský Dopravní podnik předávat údaje o aktuální poloze tramvají do systémů Pražské integrované dopravy (PID). K datům se tak mohou dostat různé aplikace třetích stran, které nově mohou zveřejňovat aktuální údaje o zpoždění tramvají. PID o tom informoval na Twitteru. TW –...
Bitcoin Miners Earn Over $1 Million per Hour — Revenue Increases 185% Since the 2020 Halving
30.12.2020
Bitcoin miners have been yielding a very profitable year in monthly revenues, as the latest onchain data shows significant figures at its highest levels since 2019. Hourly Bitcoin Mining Revenues Hits 2019 Highs According to Glassnode, BTC miners are currently earning $1 million per hour, meaning...
Koei Tecmo Shuts Down Forums Following Data Hack
30.12.2020
The Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo announced over the Christmas holiday that some personal data from 65,000 users of its English language website was hacked, leading the company to take its US and UK websites offline for the time being.Read more
'Bitcoin liquidity crisis' — BTC is becoming harder to buy on exchanges, data shows
30.12.2020
Bitcoin liquidity is declining, data from Glassnode shows, which could propel BTC price even higher
SEC Disapproves BOX Security’s Request to Report Stock Trading Data on Ethereum Blockchain
28.12.2020
BOX proposed a rule change to the SEC for using the Ethereum blockchain to record and publishing end-of-day securities ownership balances
Bitcoin whales are buying more aggressively since Christmas, data finds
28.12.2020
High-net-worth investors, or whales, have been buying Bitcoin more aggressively since Christmas, on-chain data show
Why you wouldn’t eat chicken nuggets, and why you shouldn’t trust Big Data
28.12.2020
Do you really know how your data is used and monetized? If you did, you’d probably think twice about giving your personal details away so freely
Bitcoin Derivatives Action Swells: A Few June Futures Trade for $30K, Deribit Adds $140K Options Strike
27.12.2020
Bitcoin derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand in recent months at the same time bitcoin spot markets climbed to all-time price highs and surged 149% during the last three months. Just recently the leading bitcoin options exchange Deribit announced the launch of both $120k...
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...
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
26.12.2020
Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here:
Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs to be covered) has position: relative applied to it....
Data Leaks, Regulatory "Fun" and 20 Crypto Jokes
26.12.2020
In the week leading to the holidays, a Twitter exchange between Elon Musk and Michael Saylor added fuel to the BTC rally, but shortly, as BTC dropped below USD 23K, and then it went back up. You know, the usual. But then serious problems hit the fan for Ledger and their users when personal info...
Responsible, Conditional Loading
25.12.2020
Over on the Polyplane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data, about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can use it in CSS to make choices that reduce...
Despite Bitcoin’s Price Highs, Onchain Data Shows BTC Miners Are Not Spending More Than Usual
25.12.2020
The cryptocurrency economy has been higher in value than ever before as bitcoin has touched an all-time price high at $24,298 per unit. Regardless of the all-time price highs, the world’s bitcoin miners are not spending more bitcoin than usual according to onchain statistics. Bitcoin miner...
DeFi data manipulation is too easy — and current oracle solutions aren’t helping much
24.12.2020
DeFi exploits are too common for mass adoption. But there are solutions to the oracle problem
Ledger data leak: A ‘simple mistake’ exposed 270K crypto wallet buyers
24.12.2020
Ledger wallet users face mounting home invasion and other scareware threats as hacker dumps private customer information online
From SIM Swaps to Home-Invasion Threats, Ledger Leak Has Cascading Consequences
23.12.2020
The incident shows the variety of ways data can be used to hurt people, and raises questions about how and if certain data should be retained at all
Who's playing what on PlayStation 5?
22.12.2020
We have some data for that!
How The Web is Really Built
22.12.2020
My 2020 was colored by the considerable amount of time I spent analyzing data about CSS usage in the wild, for the CSS chapter of the Web Almanac, by the HTTP Archive. The results were eye-opening to me. A wake-up call of sorts. We spend so much time in the bubble of bleeding-edge tech that we lose...
Ledger Leak Invokes Legal Action, One Customer Allegedly Threatened With Home Invasion
21.12.2020
Just recently, reports of the Ledger customer database breach being dumped on Raidforums for free has become a viral story among cryptocurrency proponents. Now customers are threatening to take legal action against the hardware wallet manufacturer, and one customer has complained of getting...
Converting and Optimizing Images From the Command Line
21.12.2020
Images take up to 50% of the total size of an average web page. And if images are not optimized, users end up downloading extra bytes. And if they’re downloading extra bytes, the site not only takes that much more time to load, but users are using more data, both of which can be resolved, at least...