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How to Build a Chrome Extension
19.5.2020
I made a Chrome extension this weekend because I found I was doing the same task over and over and wanted to automate it. Plus, I’m a nerd during a pandemic, so I spend my weird pent-up energy building things. I’ve made five Chrome extensions with that energy, yet I still find it hard...
User agents
19.5.2020
Jeremy beating the classic drum:
For web development, start with HTML, then CSS, then JavaScript (and don’t move on to JavaScript too quickly—really get to grips with HTML and CSS first).
And then…
That’s assuming you want to be a good well-rounded web developer. But it might be that...
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....
Venezuelans Can Now Use Bitcoin to Pay for Goods at 20,000 PoS Terminals
19.5.2020
Venezuelans will now be able to use bitcoin to pay for goods and services at more than 20,000 point-of-sale (PoS) terminals throughout the struggling South American country. This follows a deal between Panamanian crypto exchange Cryptobuyer and local payments processor Mega Soft to connect some...
First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout
18.5.2020
It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long time. Masonry being that kind of layout where unevenly-sized elements are layed out in ragged rows. Sorta like a typical...
Unprefixed `appearance `
18.5.2020
It’s interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward. One big story there was how Bloomberg hired Igalia to implement CSS grid across the browsers.
Here’s another story of Bocoup doing that, this time for the appearance property. The story...
Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans
18.5.2020
The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any pool pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum
BitPay Processes More Volume, Transaction Count Remains Unchanged
18.5.2020
In the first quarter this year, US-based major crypto payments company BitPay processed 10% more volume in USD, compared to the last three months of 2019, while the number of transactions remained unchanged.
It includes all cryptoassets the company supports, with bitcoin (BTC) representing...
Bitcoin.com’s Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube’s Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
18.5.2020
During the last few years, the Google-owned Youtube platform has been accused of massive censorship and in the last three months, the video streaming business resembles the Ministry of Propaganda, more than an online video-sharing platform. This week Bitcoin.com was also censored for sharing...
New Crypto Bull Cycle, Ripple’s MoneyTap in ATMs + More News
18.5.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
Major venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has predicted a fourth crypto bull cycle, driven...
Huobi’s Derivatives Platform Rebranded as Huobi Futures to Attract More Investors
18.5.2020
Houbi aims to bring in more institutional and retail investors to trade crypto derivatives after rebranding its derivates platform as Huobi Futures
Tackling Authentication With Vue Using RESTful APIs
18.5.2020
Authentication (logging in!) is a crucial part of many websites. Let’s look at how to go about it on a site using Vue, in the same way it can be done with any custom back end. Vue can’t actually do authentication all by itself, —we’ll need another service for that, so we’ll be using another service...
Bakkt Announces New Insurance Coverage, Claims More Than 70 Custody Clients
18.5.2020
Bakkt has onboarded 70 clients to its custody services, and signed a deal with insurance broker Marsh to provide customers with an optional extra $500 million of coverage
S2F Hopium: Report and Twitter Critics Find Flaws With Bitcoin’s Stock-to-Flow Ratio
17.5.2020
In mid-April, news.Bitcoin.com researched the popular stock-to-flow (S2F), which shows the price of a single bitcoin reaching $55K and even six figures. At the time, analysts questioned measuring bitcoin’s price in this manner and more recently, a few others have been criticizing the method...
Accio Bitcoin! J.K. Rowling Gets a Hogwarts-Style Bitcoin Education
17.5.2020
Over the weekend, crypto Twitter poured all of the passion and energy normally reserved for Bitcoin breaking $10,000 into furiousContinue Reading
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45 Older-Generation Bitcoin Miners Are Unprofitable After the Reward Halving
17.5.2020
On May 11, the Bitcoin network experienced its third block reward halving, which had chopped the 12.5 BTC reward to 6.25 coins following the event. It’s been close to a week later, and data stemming from mining rig profitability websites show that more than 45 older generation devices are...
Bitcoin Loophole: Wanna Make $13K in 24 Hours? This Crypto Trading App Is a Scam
16.5.2020
A bitcoin investment scheme claiming to help people make over $13,000 within 24 hours has recently gained more attention. Bitcoin Loophole claims to be an algorithmic crypto trading app that enables its members to make daily profits and become millionaires within 61 days. However, it is a scam...
20 Blockchain Surveillance Firms Monitor Crypto Networks, But Some Apps Show Inaccuracies
16.5.2020
During the last few years, blockchain surveillance has increased a great deal and in the early days around 2013-14, there were only a handful of firms. Now there are more than 20 blockchain analysis companies that monitor addresses, transactions, and making sure addresses are AML/CFT compliant...
CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit
15.5.2020
A surprisingly common response when asking people about things they’d fix about anything in CSS, is to improve the handling of viewport units.
One thing that comes up often is how they relate to scrollbars. For example, if an element is sized to 100vw and stretches edge-to-edge, that’s...
Comparing Social Media Outlets for Developer Tips
15.5.2020
As a little experiment, I shared a development tip on three different social networks. I also tried to post it in a format that was most suitable for that particular social network:
On Twitter, I made it a thread.
On Instagram, I made it a series of images.
On YouTube, I made it a video.
How...