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OCC’s Brian Brooks Says China Owns Bitcoin but Crypto World Disagrees: Chinese Crackdown Pushes Miners Away
19.11.2020
Bitcoiners on social media have panned remarks by acting U.S. currency comptroller Brian Brooks that bitcoin is owned by China due to the country’s disproportionate share of the crypto’s mining power. The bitcoiners argue that the disproportionate number of miners stationed in China...
Quppy Users Are Offered a Referral Program
19.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Quppy services can now be referred for an attractive direct cashback. The Quppy digital financial solution is launching its first referral program. Quppy current and new users are now provided with their unique referral links to share among their communities. The Quppy referral...
Uncollaterized Power: A Makerdao Governance Vote Was Swayed by a Defi Flash Loan
2.11.2020
The Makerdao and the stablecoin DAI has been a popular project in the decentralized finance (defi) space and it’s also had its share of problems. This week the project called Bprotocol leveraged a defi flash loan in order to sway a Makerdao governance vote. The development team behind...
ETH Gobbles Up Larger Share of Genesis Loan Book as Trading Firms Feast on DeFi Summer
30.10.2020
Genesis Trading saw the share of bitcoin in its loan portfolio drop – mainly due to demand for liquidity mining on DeFi protocols
Crypto and Fintech Share Goals: They Should Talk
29.10.2020
The missions of programmable money and autonomous finance overlap, so it's surprising people from crypto and fintech don't collaborate more
Americas' Share in Crypto M&A and Fundraising is Shrinking
15.10.2020
The Americas are loosing their share in crypto mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and fundraising, according to major consulting company PwC.
In their latest report which looks into the first six months of 2020, PwC found that the total value of crypto M&A in the first half of this year...
On the Web Share API
6.10.2020
I think the Web Share API is very cool (here’s our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you’re on, if that platform supports it. So essentially…
I like this:
Web Share API activated on iOS
A heck of a lot more than these...
BitMEX’s Receding Market Share Might Have Spared Bitcoiners Bigger Sell-Off
2.10.2020
When BitMEX announced so-called "perpetual bitcoin leveraged swap" four years ago, few traders could have anticipated the major impact it would have on the digital-asset trading landscape
POW
30.9.2020
As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share:
POW stands for Packaged Offline/online Webpage. It turns out the png format includes ways to save metadata alongside the image file. A powfile has a metadata entry that contains a zip file that contains a full website.
So a PNG file...
Tether’s Stablecoin Dominance Drops Below 80% as Audit Controversy Lingers On
27.9.2020
The total volume of stablecoins in circulation is closing in on the $20 billion mark, while the market-leading coin, USDT’s share of the total circulating supply continues to shrink, data from Coinmetrics shows. According to the data, USDT now accounts for an estimated at 80% of total supply...
MicroBT Sets Up First Offshore Bitcoin Miner Factory to Expand US Market Share
25.9.2020
The new Southeast Asian facility will mean U.S. buyers won't have to pay an additional 25% tax on miner orders
Exclusive Casino Tournament with $5000 Prize Pool Begins at Bitcoin Games
16.9.2020
Play in the newly launched tournament at Bitcoin Games to win a share of the $5000 prize pot, get guaranteed Free Spins just for participating. Play to Win The premium entertainment provider Bitcoin Games has been loading its arsenal of casino games with some of the most sought after software...
Chinese mining giant Canaan announces $10 million share buyback
8.9.2020
Canaan will try to drive up its Nasdaq-listed stock from the $2 price mark
Top-tier Crypto Exchanges Increased Their Market Share + More News
7.9.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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In August, trading volumes on top-tier (or lower risk) crypto exchanges increased by 58% to USD 529bn, according to CryptoCompare,...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tanks to $10.4K; ETH Market Cap Share at 2020 High
3.9.2020
Bitcoin’s price is dipping while ether’s share of the crypto market is at a level not seen since 2018
Deeper DX
27.8.2020
Shawn Wang thinks there are deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable, places to go with developer experience (DX) beyond the surface-level stuff that we recently covered. Sure, sure, documentation, CLIs, good demos. But there are much harder questions to answer that are part of the real DX. Shawn lists...
INX Exchange Launching SEC-Registered Hybrid Token/Share IPO This Week
21.8.2020
INX will run the first SEC-registered security token offering in its IPO aiming to raise $111 million
Russia and China De-dollarization Approaching ‘Breakthrough Moment’
20.8.2020
China and Russia are collaborating to reduce their dependence on the U.S. dollar. Trade settlements in USD between the two countries have fallen below 50% for the first time. De-dollarization in Russia and China The dollar’s share of trade between Russia and China was only 46% of settlements...
radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance
18.8.2020
React is popular, popular enough that it receives its fair share of criticism. Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. When client-side rendering in React is relied...
Spot Markets Target Top-Tier Exchanges While Derivatives Gain Market Share
17.8.2020
July saw a major shift towards top-tier exchanges on spot markets, while derivatives volumes continue to eat into spot volumes market share