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A Book Apart Turning 10
30.4.2020
Early congratulations, A Book Apart! That’s a hell of a milestone. I’m quite sure I’ve read more A Book Apart books than any other tech book publisher.
Katel LeDu runs the ship over there, and she’s given me very special pack of discount codes that will get you my book...
Bitcoin Cash Approaches Milestone With First Halving Expected Wednesday
8.4.2020
The event is a foreshadowing of the same process happening on a larger scale on the BTC blockchain next month
Ripple Expands in Asia, Brave & CoinTracker Reach New Milestones + More News
2.4.2020
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London-based international money transfer service Azimo and Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) have partnered...
In-Between Bitcoin Halvings: Analyst Proves Bitcoin’s Price Not Bound to 4-Year Cycles
29.3.2020
Crypto traders and analysts have always looked to the halvings for some kind of clues in order to predict the future price of bitcoin. A number of traders also think that BTC price movements shift every four years and speculators often use the halvings as milestone markers. On March 28, crypto...
Binance Chief CZ Shares Milestone Achievements of Binance in Quarantine Days
28.3.2020
Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, took to his official Twitter handle to highlight the key accomplishments of his team in the past four days during the quarantine period. Governments around the world have imposed lockdown in their respective countries to promote social distancing to eradicate the deadly...
Lightning-Fast New Bitcoin.com Wallet Proves Popular With Over 10 Million Wallets Created
11.3.2020
The Bitcoin.com Wallet app has reached almost 10.5 million wallets created across several million app downloads. This milestone follows last month’s release of the new app, which most notably included a redesigned, user-friendly interface along with the lightning-fast Instant Pay feature...
Darknet Markets Flourish as White House and Empire Toast Milestone Achievements
2.3.2020
Business is booming on the darknet. Despite ongoing DDoS attacks, Empire Market has now passed 1 million users and two years’ trading. White House Market is also going strong, boasting almost 100% uptime in its first six months and over 60,00 users. In related news, the darknet has gained...
Bitcoin History Part 24: Celebrating the First Halving in 2012
25.2.2020
As the third Bitcoin halvening approaches, a handful of OGs will wistfully recall the first such event, which occurred in November 2012. Back then, following the completion of block 210,000, the mining reward halved from 50 to 25 BTC. To commemorate the milestone, early adopters threw parties...
Coinbase Hits 'Significant Milestone' in Crypto Adoption
19.2.2020
Source: Twitter/@dftrades
Major, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has become a credit card giant Visa principal member.
Coinbase said that they are the "first pure-play crypto company" to be approved as a principal member. The exchange called this development a "significant...
Defi Market Surpasses $1 Billion – But There’s a Catch
7.2.2020
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance applications has surpassed $1 billion, prompting celebrations from the Ethereum community. Not everyone has been swift to toast the milestone, however, with suggestions that the true value locked into defi protocols is materially lower....
Why DeFi’s Billion-Dollar Milestone Matters
7.2.2020
The DeFi market hitting $1 billion in locked crypto is something even the most fervent ethereum skeptics would have a tough time dismissing as meaningless
Value Locked in Crypto DeFi Markets Hits $1 Billion Milestone
7.2.2020
$1 billion in value is now locked in the DeFi markets, as Ether continues to see bullish price momentum
Major DeFi Milestone: Total Value Locked Hit USD 1 Billion
7.2.2020
We have been reporting for a while now about the massive growth the DeFi (decentralized finance) ecosystem is experiencing, and today, the Cryptoverse saw another major milestone reached - total value locked in DeFi surpassed USD 1 billion, before dropping below this threshold again.
The total...
Bitcoin Achieves Major Milestone With Half a Billion Transactions Confirmed
5.2.2020
500 million transactions have been confirmed on the Bitcoin blockchain
‘Key Milestone’ for Hyperledger as Fabric Blockchain Platform Reaches 2.0 Release
31.1.2020
Version 2.0 marks the most significant release since Fabric first launched in 2017
Blockstack PBC Announces Achievement of Milestone 2
30.1.2020
Taking pride in being a revolutionary decentralized computing network and app platform focused towards user identity and data security, Blockstack PBC has announced the news about the successful completion of Milestone 2 aimed towards widescale network growth. The platform has pooled in $6.8...
BTC’s Hashrate Touches 120 Exahash, But the Price Has Not Followed
3.1.2020
On January 1, the BTC network hashrate touched an all-time high at close to 120 exahash per second (EH/s). Despite the crypto market lull and lower BTC prices, the 2020 milestone happened just before the blockchain’s 11th anniversary. BTC’s curious jump in hashrate has the cryptosphere...
Bloxroute Releases Blockchain Distribution Network for Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash
15.12.2019
On December 3, the crypto software firm Bloxroute’s cofounder, Eyal Markovich, announced the launch of the startup’s Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) Version 1. Markovich explained that the BDN V1 release is a milestone for the company and the scalability service aims to enable...
The future is bright, because the future is static
20.11.2019
I've been doing this web thing for money for 10 years this year and although I haven’t been around as long as some folks, I feel like I've seen a few cycles come and go now, so let's say that hot new things are often cynically viewed, initially. This milestone of mine has also got me in...
Bitcoin ATMs Worldwide Hit New Milestone, Surpassing 6,000
17.11.2019
The number of Bitcoin ATMs installed globally hits a new milestone