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2019’s Bitcoin Miners Are 5x Faster Than Predecessors
13.12.2019
High-powered bitcoin miners and next-generation semiconductors go hand in hand and as process node technology grows, SHA256 hashrate follows. Coinshares’ recent bi-annual mining report highlights that newly introduced mining rigs have “as much as 5x the hashrate per unit as their...
Lagarde Sees Demand for Stablecoins, Plans to Put ECB ‘Ahead of the Curve’
13.12.2019
At her first press conference as head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde outlined her plans to lead the ECB “ahead of the curve” in the field of digital currency. “There is clearly a demand out there that we have to respond to,” she said, referring...
15 Million Debit Cards Exposed as Iranian Banks Fall Victim to Cyber Warfare
12.12.2019
The private details of 15 million bank debit cards in Iran have been published on Telegram in the largest banking security incident in the country’s history. Iranian authorities so far try to blame the breach on common criminals but cyber security experts suspect it was the work...
Volcker Might Have Said Yes to a Digital Dollar – If He Knew What It Was
12.12.2019
What would the late former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker have thought about digital currencies issued by central banks?
IDEG Reports Launch of New Bitcoin Trusts in Asia With Coinbase as Custodian
12.12.2019
According to a recent press release from IDEG Investment Limited, “Asia’s First Bitcoin Trusts” have been launched “as a traditional and comfortable way for ‘old money’ to invest in digital assets.” The two trusts, Asia Bitcoin Trust I and Atlas Mining...
BitMEX and Arthur Hayes Now Have USD 300 Million Problem
12.12.2019
Arthur Hayes. Major crypto exchange BitMEX and its co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes just got into another problem.
The company and its CEO are now being sued for USD 300 million by Frank Amato, a former JPMorgan Chase commodity derivatives trader, and RGB Coin Ltd., who claim to have been the first...
China’s Inflation Hits a Record 4.5% as Beijing Prepares to Test Digital Yuan
12.12.2019
China has been confronted with multiple economic and financial problems this year amidst an ongoing trade war with the United States. Authorities in Beijing have been trying to overcome the challenges with administrative measures in what has become a market economy over the years. Inflation of...
SLP Token Market Cap Surpasses $50 Million
12.12.2019
For over a year now, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) token universe has grown quite vast. There are now more than 6,000 SLP tokens in existence and a number of SLP tokens have seen price discovery. Moreover, tokens listed on our SLP market capitalization aggregator show in the last two months...
Market Update: Despite Uncertainty, BTC Longs Skyrocket
11.12.2019
Digital currency prices have slumped again as the entire crypto market capitalization has dropped below $200 billion. At press time, most of the top digital assets are down a few percentages after gathering some gains over the last few days. With multiple coins getting rejected after trying...
Freak Flags
11.12.2019
I don't see image sprites used that much anymore, but it's still a good technique for reducing downloaded decorative image assets when you have multiple on a page. The big idea is combining all the graphics into one and then shifting around the size and background-position to reveal one at...
Just Sharing My Gulpfile
11.12.2019
Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I'd run my watch command, change some CSS, and the processing would sometimes leave behind some extra files that were meant to be cleaned up during the processing. Like the cleanup tasks...
China’s SEC May Soon Have a Crypto-Savvy Department Chief: Report
11.12.2019
China's securities watchdog is reported to be hiring Yao Qian, the former head of the central bank's digital currency initiative, as the chief of its new tech regulation bureau
The State Encourages ICO Fraud. The Free Market Minimizes It
11.12.2019
Many Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been and are frauds. The state enables this con game in various ways, including the establishment of accredited investors and the regulation of businesses that sell equity. Shut off from the most lucrative aspects of investment, average people rush into...
Italians Love Cash But Are Growing Fond of Crypto, New Stats Suggest
11.12.2019
Italy, one of the world’s largest economies, has faced plenty of financial challenges in the past decade. That’s probably one of the reasons why cryptocurrencies have been faring better there than in other European countries. Italians love cash but are also warming up to...
WordPress.com: One CMS, Infinite Possibilities
11.12.2019
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Have you ever looked at a site and knew exactly what CMS powers it? You might see a distinctive design aesthetic that gives it away. Or maybe it's something even less obvious and even harder to articulate, but you know it when you see it.
That seems true with just about...
Accused Onecoin Co-Conspirators Fight Criminal Charges in the US
10.12.2019
The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time...
Ethereum (ETH) May Have a Bullish Crossover; Hints at Reversal of the Trend
10.12.2019
Ethereum started the trading at $150.97, in the last trading month of 2019. Currently, ETH against USD is trading at $146.93. The king of altcoins—Ethereum has been trading with more volatility as compared to other altcoins in the global crypto market. In the past two days, Ethereum has even...
UP Alliance Members to Lock Mega-Utility Tokens for a Year
10.12.2019
Universal Protocol Token is a mega-utility token offering attractive interest rates when lending and borrowing, lower exchange fees, cashback and discounts on trading. The large holders of UPT in the UP Alliance have gotten together and committed to lock their tokens and not sell any UPT for...
Music and Web Design
9.12.2019
Brad has a long history in music outside of being a web designer, and draws some interesting parallels. One is that he had reached for more complex music in an effort to become a better musician — and developers can do the same thing. The other is that the composition of music can be seen...
JavaScript ~~
9.12.2019
JavaScript is loaded with tiny syntax tricks to accomplish useful effects. For example, explore any codebase to see !! being used to convert a value to a boolean value. Have you seen ~~ before? Let’s have a look at what it does! We can employ ~~ to trigger a Math.floor operation with those...