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ICE chief believes Bitcoin can become digital gold but only if this happens
4.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 1 November, 2019 Bravery “Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare November is here! Wow, down to the last 2 months of […]
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ICE chief believes Bitcoin can become digital gold but only if this happens
4.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 1 November, 2019 Bravery “Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare November is here! Wow, down to the last 2 months of […]
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3 Major Signs That Precede the Fall of World Reserve Currencies
24.10.2019
The story of reserve currencies is long and stretches far back into ancient times. As modern history shows, however, the average lifespan of fiat reserve assets is just around 100 years. This means that even the U.S. dollar’s period of dominance is probably nearing its end very soon...
Traditional Law and Finance Can Adapt to Bitcoin, These Examples Show
20.10.2019
Bitcoin brought about solutions to persistent problems that stood in the way of previous attempts to invent digital money, such as the risk of double spending. Some of its features, however, like the characteristic irreversibility of blockchain transactions, have created certain challenges for...
Turkey Throws Another Wrench Into the USD’s Works and Joins Russian Swift
11.10.2019
The dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political influence Washington exerts through its fiat money. And in times of trade wars, sanctions...
Introducing Sass Modules
7.10.2019
Sass just launched a major new feature you might recognize from other languages: a module system. This is a big step forward for @import. one of the most-used Sass-features. While the current @import rule allows you to pull in third-party packages, and split your Sass into manageable "partials,"...
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2.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 2 October, 2019 Perservere “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews Happy Wednesday, CoinMarketCap crew! Let's dive right into the crypto news hot off the press! ????Today also happens to be […]
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2.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 2 October, 2019 Perservere “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews Happy Wednesday, CoinMarketCap crew! Let's dive right into the crypto news hot off the press! ????Today also happens to be […]
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2.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 2 October, 2019 “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews Eyes on it Over the last 24 hours, total market capitalization dipped from ~$222.9 billion to ~$219.2 billion, with most coins seeing losses in...
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2.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 2 October, 2019 “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews Eyes on it Over the last 24 hours, total market capitalization dipped from ~$222.9 billion to ~$219.2 billion, with most coins seeing losses in...
Someone Just Moved $1B in Bitcoin for $700 Fee, Overpaying 20 Times
6.9.2019
Generous Bitcoin user paid miner 20x the required fee to move a billion dollars
Why the Birth of Bitcoin Can Be Traced Back to 1971
1.9.2019
The world economy is a complex system that has undergone many different phases in the past century. As strange as it may sound today, there have been times when banking crises were rare, pay was rising alongside productivity, and the U.S. dollar would buy a certain amount of pure gold. Despite...
Analysts Project Tough Times Ahead for Banks After Gloomy Bank of America Forecasts
30.8.2019
More often than not troubles in the banking sector do not only ever stay restricted with one bank, unless of course, the issue is specific to the bank. For instance, if a bank loses its way due to risky investments, then it might not affect the whole sector, but when the issue becomes a structural...
Nested Gradients with background-clip
28.8.2019
I can't say I use background-clip all that often. I'd wager it's hardly ever used in day-to-day CSS work. But I was reminded of it in a post by Stefan Judis, which consistently was itself a learning-response post to a post over here by Ana Tudor.
Here's a quick explanation.
You've probably seen...
Jeremy Keith – Building the Web
23.8.2019
I really enjoyed this interview with Jeremy Keith on the state of the web, how things have changed in recent years and why he’s a mix of optimistic and nervous for the future.
One thing that caught my attention during the interview more than anything was where Jeremy started discussing how folks...
Coinberry Says that Accepting Bitcoin as Payment for Taxes is six times Cheaper than Bank Card Payments
23.8.2019
Toronto-based Crytpo currency exchange, Coinberry’s co-founder, Evan Kuhn, expressed that accepting BTC (Bitcoin) for taxes is more effective than utilizing bank card payments. A recent report from real estate news outlet Mansion Global, Kuhn said his organization takes much lower charges than...
Bitcoin Has 50 Times More Concentration Than Global Wealth
18.8.2019
The basic idea behind the inception of cryptocurrency is to decentralize and take away the rigid control that some banks and organizations have on the monetary transactions. However, according to the latest report of the PARSIQ, an organization involved in the monitoring of the blockchain...
Moving Text on a Curved Path
9.8.2019
There was a fun article in The New York Times the other day describing the fancy way Elizabeth Warren and her staff let people take a selfie with Warren. But... the pictures aren't actually selfies because they are taken by someone else. The article has his hilarious line of text that wiggles by...
Indian Supreme Court Heard Crypto Case in Depth Today
8.8.2019
The Indian supreme court finally heard the crypto case today after postponing it several times. The court addressed the government’s crypto policy as well as the writ petitions challenging the banking restriction by the central bank. The latter was heard in some detail while the former...
Run useEffect Only Once
30.7.2019
React has a built-in hook called useEffect. Hooks are used in function components. The Class component comparison to useEffect are the methods componentDidMount, componentDidUpdate, and componentWillUnmount.
useEffect will run when the component renders, which might be more times than you think....