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Bitcoin History Part 19: Wikileaks and the Hornet’s Nest
7.11.2019
“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.” With those 13 words, Satoshi Nakamoto stepped into oblivion, leaving a blizzard of unanswered questions that would enshroud his disappearance. That ominous message was to prove his penultimate forum...
Losing time
31.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 31 October, 2019 Spend it wisely “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin It's the last day of October! Finish strong! ???? Today in history (1941), Mount Rushmore was finished […]
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Collective #561
28.10.2019
Overview * Mobile-first animation * pack-spheres * Spectrum * History of grids * CLARO
Collective #561 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Bitfinex Claims to Be Victim of Fraud After Crypto Capital President Arrested
28.10.2019
The operators of Bitfinex claim that the cryptocurrency exchange is a victim of fraud committed by its payment processor Crypto Capital. The men behind Crypto Capital now face charges related to money laundering in Poland and the U.S. Also Read: Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human...
Bitcoin Price Explodes With One of the Biggest Rally in History
26.10.2019
The Cryptoverse is stunned. While many analysts, traders were discussing where will bitcoin price go next - below USD 7,000 or USD 6,000 - the most popular cryptocurrency made one of its largest moves up.
In less than one day, the price skyrocketed from c. USD 7,500 to more than USD 10,100....
3 Major Signs That Precede the Fall of World Reserve Currencies
24.10.2019
The story of reserve currencies is long and stretches far back into ancient times. As modern history shows, however, the average lifespan of fiat reserve assets is just around 100 years. This means that even the U.S. dollar’s period of dominance is probably nearing its end very soon...
How Fiat Money Fails: Deconstructing the Government’s Paper-Thin Promise
23.10.2019
Fiat money has a surprisingly short lifespan. The almighty U.S. dollar currently serving as world reserve currency is not exempted, in spite of all proclamation that it cannot fail. Throughout history, fiat money has failed over and over again, where sound assets like gold have survived. Ruling...
Venturing out there
22.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 22 October, 2019 Adventure “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop Hidey ho, crypto pal! Good to see you back here again! ????Hope those pesky Monday blues didn't get to you yesterday. Today in history […]
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Just a little push will do
17.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 17 October, 2019 Encourage “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ello CoinMarketCap-ers! We've got some exciting news today!!! ???? Today in history (1888), Thomas Edison patented...
Just a little push will do
17.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 17 October, 2019 Encourage “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ello CoinMarketCap-ers! We've got some exciting news today!!! ???? Today in history (1888), Thomas Edison patented...
Telegram’s TON Board Takes a Break, Removes All History From Channel
12.10.2019
Following a red flag from U.S. regulators, private TON channel TON Board announces a temporary halt, removing all previous posts
Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human History’ Claims Lawsuit Against Bitfinex
9.10.2019
A common attack against Tether in the crypto ecosystem is that the stablecoin isn’t really backed one-to-one by the U.S. dollar. We might soon get to know if these concerns are substantial, as the matter is now going to court. A new lawsuit against the operators of USDT accuses them...
Bitcoin History Part 18: The First Bitcoin Wallet
6.10.2019
Bitcoin users today are blessed with a panoply of feature-rich software and hardware wallets. When Bitcoin launched, however, there were no wallets. It took Satoshi Nakamoto to engineer the first desktop client, and his creation proved surprisingly resilient, serving the community faithfully...
Unshackled
3.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 October, 2019 Stay free “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Khalil Gibran Happy Thursday, folks! Time for your daily dose of crypto news! ???? Today in history (2333BC), Dangun […]
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Unshackled
3.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 October, 2019 Stay free “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Khalil Gibran Happy Thursday, folks! Time for your daily dose of crypto news! ???? Today in history (2333BC), Dangun […]
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Bitcoin History Part 17: That Time Mt. Gox Destroyed 2,609 BTC
21.9.2019
Technically speaking, it’s impossible to destroy bitcoins. But it is possible to send coins to an unspendable address, rendering them redundant to all intents and purposes. In October 2011, that’s exactly what Mark Karpeles did when he consigned 2,609 BTC to eternal oblivion due to...
Fortune favors the bold
20.9.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 20 September, 2019 Be brave “The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." – Ronald Reagan TGIF! Great job, CoinMarketCap family! That's another week down. ???? Today in history (1848), […]
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Web Developer Search History
18.9.2019
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the...
(Why) Some HTML is “optional”
16.9.2019
Remy Sharp digs into the history of the web and describes why the <p> tag doesn’t need to be closed like this:
<p>Paragraphs don’t need to be closed
<p>Pretty weird, huh?
Remy writes:
Pre-DOM, pre-browsers, the world's first browser was being written by Sir...
A Short History of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pools
15.9.2019
Mining pools grow and shrink, and rise and fall altogether. Today there are more extinct mining pools than there are active ones. The hashpower of the survivors secures hundreds of PoW crypto networks, from major coins such as BTC and BCH to obscure altcoins such as monero classic...