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25-Year-Old to Plead Guilty to Running Unlicensed Crypto Exchange
26.8.2019
A man from Los Angeles agrees to plead guilty to charge for running an unlicensed crypto exchange without an effective AML program
Immortality, Cryogenics and UBI: How The Crypto Rich Influence Science
25.8.2019
The rise of cryptocurrency is changing the philanthropic world by causing the redistribution of wealth from old money to visionary innovators and early tech adopters. The new crypto rich invest their donations by supporting scientific research in groundbreaking fields that may one day enable...
Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS
19.8.2019
Let's say you were gonna bounce an element all around a screen, sorta like an old school screensaver or Pong or something.
You'd probably be tracking the X location of the element, increasing or decreasing it in a time loop and — when the element reached the maximum or minimum value —...
Front Conference in Zürich
15.8.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
I'm so excited to be heading to Zürich, Switzerland for Front Conference (Love that name and URL!). I've never been to Switzerland before, so I'm excited about that, but of course, the web nerd in me is excited to be at the conference with lots of fellow webfolk. Some...
Sextortion-A New Name with Old Intent Ramps up with Bitcoin Scam Email
8.8.2019
The blackmailing plot gets thicker when the extortion gets personal. Scammers are extorting money against the threat of leaking the sensitive photos of the user. Australians are becoming the target of this nasty game. It is almost a vicious cycle as the more money is surrendered to...
From Spartacus to Satoshi: A Brief History of Economic Rebellion
7.8.2019
Government dominance of human beings via slavery and violent economic oppression is as old as government itself. For thousands and thousands of years kings and rulers, usually held to be “appointed by God,” have used free, non-violent individuals as their tax farm livestock to exploit...
More Signs the Next Big Financial Crisis May Begin in Germany
3.8.2019
Germany, the locomotive of Europe’s huge economy, is entering a difficult period, various indicators suggest. And when the Federal Republic sneezes, the Old Continent usually catches cold. This time, Germany may infect the rest of the world as well. An economic and financial crisis there...
200-Year-Old Passport Printing Firm Launches Hardware Crypo Wallet
29.7.2019
An Austrian printing company that has history going back to the early 1800s has launched a secure bitcoin storage device
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
26.7.2019
A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business not registered with the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. According to a July 24 press release by the U.S. Attorney’s office, 46-year-old William Green could face...
Money and Democracy: How the Elite Manipulated Ledgers and Created a Social Ranking System
22.7.2019
Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of exchange called money to facilitate trade. During this timespan, the evolution of money has evolved into a system of information, a social contract, and a ranking...
The Twelfth Fourth
4.7.2019
CSS-Tricks is 12 years old! Firmly into that Early Adolescence stage, I'd say ;) As we do each year, let's reflect upon the past year. I'd better have something to say, right? Otherwise, John Prine would get mad at me.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in...
Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans
25.6.2019
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is "snarky" or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that allows me to "feature" or "bury" comments. It's old but it still works fine in...
Tether Price Analysis: A new challenge in the light of old disputes
21.6.2019
Stablecoins entered in the crypto market with the ambition to overcome untamed price volatility. Theoretically, these coins are more useful to pay for goods and services or money transactions overseas. Tether is the most preferred stable coin of all. It not only manages to bring price swing...
Pan-African Insurer Old Mutual Will Not Insure Mining Rigs
11.6.2019
South African insurance company Old Mutual has refused to insure mining rigs in Africa, making it harder to protect cryptocurrency gear there
Komodo Hacks Own Wallet Users Only To Protect Them Of A $13 Million Theft From Old Wallet
7.6.2019
A big theft, which could result in a loss of $13 million, has been prevented by pro-active measures. Komodo, a crypto wallet start-up was informed about a potent theft by its internal security after an extensive audit on June 5, which showed that many customer accounts from the old crypto wallet...
Five-Year-Old Post By A Self-Proclaimed Time Traveler Goes Viral Again; People Claim His Predictions True
29.5.2019
What does the future behold? This is a question that almost every human being on God’s green earth wonders at least once in a day. The mystery of the unseen has fascinated humankind for centuries, and fascination still continues. About five years ago, in 2013, a user posted something which most...
Honest Nodes Spoiling a Theft Attempt Is Not a 51% Attack, BCH Devs Detail
27.5.2019
A number of Bitcoin Cash detractors and media publications have recently been spreading a false narrative that the BCH network was ‘51% attacked.’ In reality, however, honest nodes used their hashrate to stave off attacker nodes that were attempting to steal funds on the network. Also...
Code as Documentation: New Strategies with CSS Grid
24.5.2019
I work for Supercool, a fast-moving design agency that makes custom built sites for arts clients, powered by the off-the-shelf system, Craft CMS; it's high-spec graphic design with relatively demanding typography and art direction. Over the past few months we’ve been moving to CSS grid. We’re...
Why 5 Months Old GoT and VeganCoin News Swept the Cryptoverse Now
22.5.2019
Jerome Flynn as Ser Bronn in Game of Thrones.
(A spoiler-free article.)
On Tuesday, the cryptoverse was abuzz over the "news" that Game of Thrones, a popular TV series that has recently ended, actor and a lifelong animal rights and environmental advocate, Jerome Flynn, joined a blockchain-based...
20-Year-Old Cryptographic Puzzle Is Solved and Stamped in the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain
17.5.2019
A fiendishly tricky puzzle that has baffled cryptographers for two decades has been solved, and the proof preserved on the BCH and BTC blockchains. The feat, which was achieved 15 years earlier than the puzzle’s architects had anticipated, was commemorated with another premature reveal...