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Crypto Debit Cards You Can Use Now Plus a Few to Expect Soon
9.6.2019
Debit cards tied to cryptocurrency wallets provide an opportunity to spend your digital coins almost anywhere fiat money is accepted. It’s a working solution, at least until wider adoption comes around. That’s why they’ve become so popular in the crypto community. Challenges...
Satoshi Posers — Why So Many Takers for the Bitcoin Crown?
7.6.2019
People are going to great lengths to try to prove they are Satoshi Nakamoto, but is there any legal ground to their moves?
Why Bitpay Is Really Charging More for BTC Transactions
6.6.2019
Bitpay has recently been attacked on social media for charging an extra fee for BTC transactions that it doesn’t ask of BCH users. The reality is that the company simply has to cover its operational costs related to the BTC network, whose fees are currently very high again. Also Read: How...
Why Justin Sun Paid $4.5 Million Lunch With Warren Buffett Who Thinks BTC Is “Rat Poison Squared”?
6.6.2019
The TRON Founder- Justin Sun has paid 4.5 Million U.S. Dollars after winning the opportunity to be a part of the 20th Anniversary charity lunch hosted by Warren Buffett which will take place in the New York City. Is the hefty payment made just to grab a bite with Warren Buffett over the charity...
Self-Host Your Static Assets
5.6.2019
Harry Roberts digs into why hosting assets on someone else’s servers (including CDNs) is not such a great idea if we want our websites to be lightning fast.
Harry writes:
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem...
Why Darknet Drug Sales Are on the Rise
5.6.2019
The public’s appetite for darknet drugs remains undaunted. A major new survey has shown consistent growth in online drug sales since 2014, with Scotland, Brazil and England leading the demand for narcotics procured off the darknet. Despite numerous darknet markets (DNMs) and supporting...
Mark Karpeles: Why Bitcoin’s Security Tech Needs an Update
5.6.2019
The disgraced crypto CEO Mark Karpeles has a new book and a new mission: to secure bitcoin
The Land of the Free: Why Decentralization Matters in the Crypto Republic
5.6.2019
Are you sure the crypto world is free? Some lessons on governance, participation and decentralization from Tezos, Iota and others may prove the opposite
Movin’ Modals Along a Path
4.6.2019
Modals always be just appearin'. You might see one once in a while that slides in from one of the edges, or uses some kind of scale/opacity thing to appear from "above" or "below." But we can get weirder than that. Why not have them come in on an offset-path?
Just a swoopy arc is kinda fun.
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Collective #521
3.6.2019
Self-Host Your Static Assets * Uibot * Why I'm still using jQuery in 2019 * Medium to own blog
Collective #521 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Creation Of Ethereum – The World’s Largest Adopted Blockchain, By Vitalik Buterin
3.6.2019
Vitalik Buterin is one of the most decorated and influential names in the global crypto space. More than anything, he is credited for creating arguably the most dominant blockchain platform after Bitcoin, Ethereum. At the beginning of his career, Buterin joined which called the Bitcoin Space. After...
Why Bitcoin’s ‘Culture War’ Matters
3.6.2019
Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. Let’s talk about bitcoin, toxicity and inclusiveness. (Boy, my Twitter feed is going to have fun over the next few days.) To start with, let me take...
BCH vs. BTC: Which Offers Greater Privacy?
30.5.2019
Do you want every person you ever transact with to know how much is in your wallet and your net worth? Of course not. That’s why you need and want to mix your coins to hide where they came from before you use them. The degree of privacy you can expect by default, however, varies […]
The...
Tether Price Analysis: Why Tether (USDT) is Not an Attractive Investment Despite The Circulating Supply of 3Bn?
30.5.2019
Yesterday on May 29 Tether reprinted and released the previously locked tokens due to October 2018 contraction. Now its total supply has surpassed the 3.1 billion USDT. The Court verdict against Tether and Bitfinex exchange will decide whether Tether is an investment option or not. Also, the case...
Why Crypto Will Not Make Western Union Obsolete
29.5.2019
George Harrap
The text below is an excerpt from The Compendium of Cryptocurrency Remittances by George Harrap, CEO of Bitspark, a bankless money transfer solution utilising blockchain technology.
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It is impossible in the remittance world to ignore Western Union (WU). The solid brand name...
Cryptocurrency Mixers and Why Governments May Want to Shut Them Down
28.5.2019
While law enforcement agencies go after cryptocurrency transactions anonymizers, some stakeholders are clamoring for more on-chain solutions
Scotch.io Job Board Launched!
28.5.2019
Here at Scotch, our main goal has always been to help people make sense of the complex world of development. Explaining why something is in addition to what or how
Why this Investor Thinks Bitcoin Will Hit USD 30,000 in 2019
28.5.2019
Jehan Chu, co-founder of Kenetic Capital, a blockchain investment and advisory firm, believes that Bitcoin price will more than triple and hit USD 30,000 by the end of the year.
Talking on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia, Jehan Chu said that the combination of three important factors will drive the price...
Why Telling Investors "This Time It’s Different" Might be Dangerous
26.5.2019
Since the price of bitcoin has broken through the USD 8,000 barrier and the dreaded ‘crypto winter’ is finally over, we now have industry experts who claim that this crypto market rally will be different than the last. While that may not be incorrect, it is a potentially dangerous statement for...
DeFi and Credit on the Blockchain: Why Loans Are Better When They’re Decentralized
26.5.2019
Decentralized loans: more accessible, more transparent and more controllable