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You Can Privately Cash out Bitcoin on These P2P Exchanges – for a Premium
11.2.2020
Using P2P exchanges to cash out bitcoin provides privacy, but it comes with a premium – a price premium, to be precise. Whether you’re buying or selling crypto on these semi-decentralized platforms, be prepared to take a hit on the market price. If you’re planning to sell bitcoin...
Bitcoin Taxation Support Growing Industry – Here are 5 Useful Cryptocurrency Tax Calculators
10.2.2020
For crypto owners looking to estimate how much they owe in taxes, there are some platforms with a free crypto tax calculator. They integrate with major crypto exchanges and wallets, allowing you to import your crypto transaction data and start calculating your taxes for free. Some of them also...
Here’s How Aergo is Transforming Enterprise Blockchain Segment
9.2.2020
The dominance of a centralized financial system is very well challenged by the emergence of blockchain technology. The open ledger has attracted the attention of many, thanks to its high safety and immutability characteristics. That said the evolving nature of blockchain had taken a negative toll...
Here is How Your Portfolio Would've Performed w/ 1%, 5% and 10% in BTC
9.2.2020
It is no longer a secret that bitcoin (BTC) is the best performing asset of the last decade. However, in light of bitcoin’s volatility, many traditional investors are skeptical about how beneficial adding bitcoin to their portfolio would be for their returns.
In the following analysis, we will...
Last Bitcoin Price Dip Before $10,000? Here’s How Low It Can Go
8.2.2020
Likely buy-the-dip moment for Bitcoin price under $10,000 as the trend remains resoundingly bullish
Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?
7.2.2020
I mean, kinda.
I was just asked this question the other day so I'm answering here because blogging is cool.
The point of an RSS feed is for people to read your content elsewhere (hence the last part of the acronym, Syndication, as in, broadcasting elsewhere). Probably an RSS reader. But RSS...
Custom Styling Form Inputs With Modern CSS Features
7.2.2020
It’s entirely possible to build custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggle switches these days, while staying semantic and accessible. We don’t even need a single line of JavaScript or extra HTML elements! It’s actually gotten easier lately than it has been in the past. Let’s take a look.
Here’s...
Getting Fancy with position: sticky;
7.2.2020
Mike Solomon worked on a fancy scrollytelling post for Esquire and blogged about it. It has GIFs of each step along the way of figuring out not just position: sticky; but also using negative margins, wrapper divs, backgrounds, and even a smidge of JavaScript measuring to get it all right.
What...
Building an accessible autocomplete control
6.2.2020
Here’s a great in-depth post from Adam Silver about his journey to create an autocomplete field that’s as accessible as possible. There are so many edge cases to consider! There are old browsers and their peculiar quirks, there are accessibility best practices for screen readers, and not to mention...
How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With HTML, CSS and JavaScript
3.2.2020
Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think and only requires the trifecta of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Let’s make one together!
This is what...
Bitcoin Bull Market is Here But Will Not Top $100K in 2020 Says Trader
3.2.2020
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty seems to be driving BTC price in 2020, but are we really in a bull market?
Here’s What Bitcoin’s 2 Biggest Privacy Wallets are Working on in 2020
2.2.2020
It’s no secret that Bitcoin has issues when it comes to privacy. After all, it’s pretty difficult to implement privacy features in a system that puts the entire history of transactions on a public ledger for everyone to see.
That said, improvements to Bitcoin privacy have been slowly implemented...
Bitcoin $100K Bullrun Is Here, Say Crypto YouTubers as Price Eyes $10K
1.2.2020
Bitcoin is at the start of the bull cycle which will see it hit at least $80,000, says one crypto YouTuber
Fewer Pronouncements of BTC's Death in 2019, but Here Are the Top 5
31.1.2020
The number of Bitcoin obituaries has declined drastically in 2019 — Cointelegraph looks at the top 5 Bitcoin “burials” of the year
Uses This
30.1.2020
A little interview with me over on Uses This. I'll skip the intro since you know who I am, but I'll republish the rest here.
What hardware do you use?
I'm a fairly cliché Mac guy. After my first Commodore 64 (and then 128), the only computers I've ever had have been from Apple. I'm...
Here’s Sneak Peek Into What the Cardano’s Future Plans Are
30.1.2020
In a comprehensive information sharing session about the company’s plan on upcoming products and services, Charles Hoskinson gave a detailed peek into what the leading cryptocurrency and blockchain platform is aiming to achieve in the future. It was a freewheeling expression as the founder...
Use and Reuse Everything in SVG… Even Animations!
28.1.2020
If you are familiar with SVG and CSS animations and started to work with them often, here are some ideas you might want to keep in mind before jumping into the job. This article will be about learning how to build and optimize your code with <use> element, CSS Variables and...
Set Type on a Circle… with offset-path
28.1.2020
Here's some legit CSS trickery from yuanchuan. There is this CSS property offset-path. Once upon a time, it was called motion-path and then it was renamed. I sort of rolled my eyes at the time, because the property is so obviously for animating things along a path. But you don't have to use it...
aviationstack
28.1.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
It's such a big industry with so many pain points its no wonder that it inspires ideas for building new products. Here's the thing about a lot of startup ideas: you need data. Chances...
Simple Image Placeholders with SVG
27.1.2020
A little open-source utility from Tyler Sticka that returns a data URL of an SVG to use as an image placeholder as needed.
I like the idea of self-running utilities like that, rather than depending on some third-party service, like placekitten or whatever. Not that I'd advocate for feature...