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Key Insights Behind the Recent Bitcoin & Ethereum Run-Up
29.7.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’s publicContinue Reading
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Cryptojacking Almost 5 Times More Prevalent in India Than Global Average
29.7.2020
A new Microsoft report states that India encounters the second-highest number of cryptojacking incidents in the APAC region
A Bit on Web Component Libraries
29.7.2020
A run of Web Components news crossed my desk recently so I thought I’d group it up here.
To my mind, one of the best use cases for Web Components is pattern libraries. Instead of doing, say, <ul class="nav nav-tabs"> like you would do in Bootstrap or <div class="tabs"> like...
Coinbase Sees More Institutional Investors Buying Bitcoin in H1
29.7.2020
Coinbase says more institutional investors are now using its platform to build direct positions in the cryptocurrency market. Crypto fund managers are now getting more backing from institutional investors that see the crypto market as an alternative investment strategy. In a report, the exchange...
New Bitcoin ETP, Trading Records, Synthetix Gets 3 DAOs + More News
28.7.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
FiCAS AG, a Swiss-based crypto investment management boutique, said it has registered the Bitcoin Capital Active ETP (Exchange...
Want to get better at code? Teach someone CSS.
28.7.2020
A friend of mine recently asked me to teach her to code. She was an absolute beginner, having no idea what coding really involves. I decided to start where I started: HTML and CSS. Using CodePen, we started forking Pens and altering them. Soon, a learning path started to unravel.
The aim of this...
Deribit Reports Daily Record $539M of Bitcoin Options Traded, More Than Double Prior High
28.7.2020
Exchange Deribit has more than doubled on its previous daily record with well over $500 million worth of bitcoin options traded
Open the Floodgates: US Customers to See More Crypto Accessibility
28.7.2020
Digital payment platforms add more cryptocurrency features for U.S. customers, but will big banks take the lead?
The GitHub Profile Trick
28.7.2020
Monica Powell shared a really cool trick the other day:
The profile README is created by creating a new repository that’s the same name as your username. For example, my GitHub username is m0nica so I created a new repository with the name m0nica.
Now the README.md from that repo is essentially...
CSS Vocabulary
27.7.2020
This is a neat interactive page by Ville V. Vanninen to reference the names of things in the CSS syntax. I feel like the easy ones to remember are “selector,” “property,” and “value,” but even as a person who writes about CSS a lot, I forget some of the others....
Polkadot Passes Proposal to Make DOTs ‘More Ergonomic’
27.7.2020
Polkadot’s first major voting proposal passed with 86% in favor of multiplying the DOT supply 100-fold
Crypto BLINC, Huawei's Blockchain Patent, XRP's Payburner + More News
27.7.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
Digital asset financial services group BCB Group launched a real-time payments network allowing members to pay each other instantly...
Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS
27.7.2020
Sometimes our sites need a little sprinkling of content management. Not always. Not a lot. But a bit. The CMS market is thriving with affordable, approachable products, so we’re not short of options. Thankfully, it is a very different world to the one that used to force companies to splash out...
Bold on Hover… Without the Layout Shift
27.7.2020
When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That’s because bold text is often larger and takes up more space. Sometimes that doesn’t matter, like a vertical stack of links where the wider/bolder text doesn’t push anything...
Cyclebit Empowers Retailers to Accept Crypto Payments In-Store, Online and On-The-Go
27.7.2020
Cyclebit is a crypto payment processor that allows merchants to easily accept digital assets payments anywhere, in both offline and online environments. It is a global company already established in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia. Cyclebit currently supports more than 20 of the most...
Bitcoin Could Be Latin America’s Ladder Out of COVID Chaos
27.7.2020
Although back in March, coronavirus seemed like a European problem, it was only a matter of time before it startedContinue Reading
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Bitcoin Could Be Latin America’s Ladder Out of COVID Chaos
27.7.2020
Although back in March, coronavirus seemed like a European problem, it was only a matter of time before it startedContinue Reading
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1,000 People Had Access to Twitter ‘God Mode’ — 130 Accounts Targeted by Hackers
25.7.2020
More than 1,000 Twitter employees and contractors reportedly had access to Twitter’s “God mode” earlier this year, before the recent large-scale hack that saw many high-profile accounts tweet about a bitcoin giveaway. Twitter has confirmed that 130 accounts were targeted,...
Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
25.7.2020
Why? Fingerprinting. Rather than these APIs being used for what they are meant for, they end up being used for gross ad tech. As in, “hey, we don’t know exactly who you are, but wait, through a script we can tell your phone stopped being idle from 8:00 am to 8:13 am and were near...
BTC-funded Escape, 1,000 Twitter "Gods," Bitcoin Suisse Gets USD 49m + More News
24.7.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Legal news
Ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s son sent some USD 500,000 in bitcoin (BTC) to an American suspected of helping Ghosn escape, said...