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Paypal’s Crypto Embrace: Morgan Stanley Says Move Boon for Mass Adoption, Critics Say Payment Giant Violates Crypto Principles
24.10.2020
The entry of Paypal into the cryptocurrency industry continues to expose the divide between traditional crypto space players who are less enthusiastic and non-crypto players who endorse the move. Non-crypto players like the analysts at Morgan Stanely are agreement with the notion that the payments...
Bitcoin Rallies Above $13K Less Than 24 Hours After Breaking 2020 Highs
22.10.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) has risen above $13,000 in less than 24 hours after it broke the $12,000 level on the news that PayPal will support cryptocurrencies on its platform
Comparing Styling Methods in 2020
19.10.2020
Over on Smashing, Adebiyi Adedotun Lukman covers all these styling methods. It’s in the context of Next.js, which is somewhat important as Next.js has some specific ways you work with these tools, is React and, thus, is a components-based architecture. But the styling methods talked about...
Binance Jersey shuts operations less than two years after launch
19.10.2020
All accounts on Binance Jersey will be inaccessible as of Nov. 30
Run Gulp as You Open a VS Code Project
13.10.2020
When I open my local project for this very site, there is a 100% chance that I need to run this command before anything else: gulp. I set that up fresh less than a year ago so I’m on the latest-and-greatest stuff and have my workflow just how I like it. I did a few more tweaks a few months...
NFT Craftiness: Mint a Non-Fungible Token Art Collectible in Less Than 15 Minutes
11.10.2020
In the last few months the non-fungible token (NFT) art space has exploded and data shows that there’s been over 4.9 million sales worth well over $128 million to-date. This week I decided to create an Ethereum-based NFT leveraging the application rarible.com, in order to show our readers...
Crypto banks are going to swallow fiat banks in 3 years — or even less
10.10.2020
In three years, a younger generation of banking customers won’t do business with a traditional fiat bank unless it offers access to crypto
Binance UK Director Departing After Less Than 6 Months
9.10.2020
Binance’s director of growth and institutional business will take on responsibility for the U.K. arm following the departure of Teana Baker-Taylor
Open Interest on Bitmex Drops 16%: Investors Withdraw 37,000 BTC in Less Than 24 Hours
2.10.2020
Data from Arcane Research shows that open interest on Bitmex’s bitcoin derivatives market touched a new low of 45,122 BTC on October 1. The figure represents a 16% drop since the CFTC announced charges against Bitmex and its executives for allegedly operating an unregistered trading platform....
Monero (XMR) Gains Over 35% in Less Than 30 Days
30.9.2020
Monero, one of the many altcoins amongst the top 20 of the global crypto market, appears drawing an opposite trend against the US Dollar. In this regard, we see a bullish sentiment after hitting the monthly lows at the onset of the ongoing month. Just when the majority of the lucrative cryptos...
Bitcoin Has Been Less Volatile Than Tesla Stock for Months
28.9.2020
Bitcoin is often criticized for being over volatile, but it's been a sea of calm compared with Tesla stock in recent months
How to Detect the Default Branch in a git Repository
28.9.2020
Over the past few years, many engineering teams have switched their default git branch name from master to a different, potentially less offensive term. I’m all for choosing to name your default branch whatever you’d like, but not having a universal default branch name can complicate...
TRON Corrects Downsides by Over 40% in Less Than 30 Days
26.9.2020
TRON is not just widely accepted due to its TRX coin that is trading amongst the top 15 cryptos of the global market but because its blockchain is loaded with beneficial products that are growing into an ecosystem. Alongside this, the TRX token has gained enough impetus and investors’ attention...
Web Technologies and Syntax
24.9.2020
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
const name = Data.person.name;
If person happens to not exist on Data, I’m going to get a hard, show-stopping error. With optional chaining, I can write:
const name = Data.person?.name;
Now if person...
Analyst: 1,500 Bitcoins Lost Every Day, Less Than 14 Million Coins Will Ever Circulate
19.9.2020
A cryptocurrency analyst, Timothy Peterson claims that 1,500 bitcoins are lost each day meaning only 14 million BTC will ever circulate. The figure is at odds with the estimate of many organizations including Markets.bitcoin.com which place the figure at 18.5 million coins. Still, Peterson, who...
Ethereum’s Gas Spike Forces Coinbase Pro to Pass Network Fees to Customers
19.9.2020
While Ethereum network fees have jumped to new highs this year, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase Pro, announced that the trading platform would be passing network fees onto customers. The move followed the exchange listing Uniswap’s native token UNI, an airdrop that saw miners...
Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
18.9.2020
A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It’s a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge reason:
Any time [the browser] encounters any external resource (CSS, JS, images, etc.) it will assign it a download priority...
Yam Finance readies for less-disastrous relaunch
16.9.2020
Yam is gearing up for its V3 release later this week after undergoing a security audit from PeckShield
Privacy coins ‘pose less risk of money laundering than other coins’
16.9.2020
Privacy coins aren’t a major money laundering risk a new white paper argues
Sushiswap’s 2 Million Token Airdrop: Founders Face Accusations of ‘Making Defi a Joke Again’
14.9.2020
Sushiswap’s new leader and FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted on September 12 that the promised 2 million token airdrop would go on as scheduled. The process was expected to last up to two hours or less depending on network congestion. The airdrop caps an eventful week for Sushiswap that...