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Looking at AWS Amplify
7.10.2020
AWS Amplify is a collection of tools from AWS to help you build applications.
Allow me to set the stage here to try to make that as clear as I know how. I have a friend (true story) who wants to build an app centered around physical training. His wife is a physical trainer, and they think perhaps...
‘Crushing’ regulations could drive Ripple out of US
7.10.2020
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said the firm is considering moving to the U.K., Switzerland, Singapore, or Japan
CryptoPunk Bounties: Ark.Gallery Rolls Out Blind Bids on 8-Bit NFT Collectibles
6.10.2020
Ark.Gallery is adding liquidity to the market for CryptoPunks by letting people place blind bids on the NFTs
Oman Central Bank Warns on Crypto ‘Risk,’ Singles Out Dagcoin
6.10.2020
The central bank warned citizens and residents that they use cryptocurrencies at their own risk
SKE48 Splash: Japan’s First J-pop NFTs Sell Out ‘Instantly’
6.10.2020
The first batch of non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading cards for the chart-topping Japanese pop group SKE48 has sold out “instantly,” reported the company that issued them.
The group is one of Japanese pop (J-pop)’s biggest commercial successes and has sold millions of records since it...
Kucoin CEO Says Exchange Hack Suspects ‘Found,’ $204 Million Recovered
4.10.2020
According to the Kucoin exchange CEO Johnny Lyu, the trading platform has recovered $204 million in crypto assets since October 1. The exchange executive says the hacking suspects have been “found” and the “police are officially involved” in order to take action....
$8M Worth of ‘Sleeping’ Bitcoin Rewards from 2010 Moved the Day Before ‘Black Thursday’
4.10.2020
Over a half a million dollars worth of bitcoin from a May 2010 coinbase reward was transferred to Bitfinex on October 1. A parser recorded the old coins being spent and since mid-February 2020, roughly 33 so-called ‘sleeping bitcoin addresses’ from ten years ago have been spent to-date....
Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser
2.10.2020
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, gosh, self, I wish I could have an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of this CSS selector, Lea has your back.
If you’ve ever thought that same thing for an entire CSS file, that’s what PostCSS is, which has gone v8. PostCSS doesn’t do anything...
With Round 1 Fully Sold Out, ClinTex Launches Round 2 of the CTi Token Sale
2.10.2020
2nd October 2020, London, United Kingdom: The lack of coordination, and major issues with bureaucracy are taking a heavy toll on the medical trials industry. Costing anywhere from $600,000 to upto $8 million USD per day, every single day a medicine is delayed not only leads to huge financial...
Venezuela Rolls Out Ethereum-Based Stock Exchange to Help Skirt US Sanctions
2.10.2020
The blockchain-based exchange comes as part of new measures announced by President Nicolas Maduro in a big to sidestep tough U.S. sanctions
Kucoin Hack: $17M Laundered Via Decentralized Exchanges, Blockchain Analysis Firm Claims This Can Still be Traced
2.10.2020
Elliptic says the Kucoin hacker has sold $17.1 million worth of tokens via decentralized exchanges (dex) platforms like Uniswap, Kyber Network, Tokenlon. The shift to dex applications comes after centralized projects came to the aid of the beleaguered exchange by blocking any cashing out of...
Dapper’s NBA Top Shot Launches Out of Beta With Samsung Galaxy Store Deal
1.10.2020
After selling more than $2 million in digital basketball cards during its private beta, NBA Top Shot is launching to the public
DueDEX is Paving the Way, Launching Fee-Free LINK/USDT Futures Trading
1.10.2020
1th October 2020, Belize City, Belize: With new exchanges cropping up, trading becoming ever-more popular, and the interest in Crypto and DeFi rising by the day, the trading market has been crying out for something special to hit for quite some time. That moment comes now, as DueDEX releases news...
Twitter’s Dorsey Calls Out Coinbase CEO For Ignoring Users’ ‘Societal Issues’
1.10.2020
Twitter’s CEO and founder Jack Dorsey has tweeted his disapproval of Coinbase’s steering his company away from corporate activism. See also: Coinbase’s New Policy: Anti-Woke or Just a Joke?
Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)
30.9.2020
Our tools for vertical alignment have gotten a lot better as of late. My early days as a website designer involved laying out 960px wide homepage designs and aligning things horizontally across a page using a 12-column grid. Media queries came along which required a serious mental shift. It solved...
POW
30.9.2020
As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share:
POW stands for Packaged Offline/online Webpage. It turns out the png format includes ways to save metadata alongside the image file. A powfile has a metadata entry that contains a zip file that contains a full website.
So a PNG file...
Court tosses out short-sellers’ lawsuit targeting Overstock’s 'digital dividend'
30.9.2020
The lawsuit, accusing Overstock of market manipulation through its security token airdrop, has been turfed by a federal judge
Uniswap Captures $2 Billion Locked, Dex Volume Outpaces Second-Largest Centralized Exchange
30.9.2020
The decentralized exchange (dex) built on Ethereum, Uniswap has accumulated a whopping $2 billion in total value locked (TVL) this week. Tuesday’s data shows out of all the decentralized finance (defi) application’s Uniswap dominates the $11 billion landscape by over 18%. Just recently...
Cardano Best Weekly Performer, Litecoin Falls Out of Top 10
29.9.2020
After falling heavily in price earlier this month, cardano (ADA) has rallied strongly in the market over the past few days, outpacing all other cryptoassets in the top 30 by market capitalization on a weekly basis and entering the top 10 club again. Meanwhile, litecoin (LTC), which for a long time...
Mark Cuban Wants an Expiration Date on Stimulus Checks: Critics Says Proposal Is Right out of a Banana Republic Playbook
28.9.2020
U.S. billionaire Mark Cuban wants the next stimulus check to come with an expiration date in order to force Americans to spend the funds. The businessman believes this “use it or lose it” approach would benefit the U.S. economy as it promotes spending instead of saving. Cuban argues...