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Venezuela May Soon Be Collecting Taxes in Crypto
12.8.2020
Venezuelan mayors agreed to join the government’s plan to expand the adoption of Petro despite some municipalities not having the technology to handle it
How to Earn Interest with Bitcoin
5.8.2020
When I was young I remember looking at my bank book and seeing nice interest payments for cash I had in the bank. Fast forward to today and banks are giving essentially nothing for interest — your money just sits there collecting dust. In an ideal world you could put it into the stock market...
Using BugHerd to Track Visual Feedback on Websites
19.5.2020
BugHerd is about collecting visual feedback for websites.
If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking at your own websites and you’re constantly critiquing them. I think that’s healthy. Nothing gets better if you look at your own work and consider it perfectly finished....
Real-Time Google Search Results API with serpstack (Sponsored)
19.11.2019
In my early web days, I was interested in scraping and collecting data based on the results of Google searches. Scraping Google was easier in those days but now Google search results are so dynamic that you can’t rely on getting the same HTML or data structure back. Add in CAPTCHAs, rate...
Swedish Government Auctions Cryptocurrency Again
12.10.2019
The Swedish Enforcement Authority, Kronofogden, is once again auctioning off cryptocurrency that has been allotted for public sale. The online auction, which is the second of this kind the government agency conducts, starts on Friday, October 11. Also read: Sean Walsh: Cryptocurrencies Can Harness...
Venezuela’s Central Bank Indicates Plans to Stockpile Bitcoin
27.9.2019
Various reports reveal Venezuela’s central bank is allegedly contemplating hoarding a variety of cryptocurrencies like BTC within its internal reserves. The state-operated gas company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has asked to send BTC and ETH payments to Banco Central...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...
Venezuelan Government Accused of Using Bitcoin to Bypass US Sanctions
25.7.2019
Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela have been accused of circumventing financial blockades imposed by the U.S. government. According to local reports, Maduro’s regime evades sanctions with cryptocurrency alongside an airline application called Jetman Pay....
Traders Accused of Illegally Collecting $56 Million in Bitcoin for Loan Scheme
22.5.2019
Two OTC traders in China have been accused of illegally soliciting over 7,000 bitcoin in deposits for a supposed loan offering