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BitMEX Is Making Bitcoin Network More Expensive for Everyone, Researcher Finds
5.5.2020
Average fees paid by bitcoin users spike at a certain time every day due to the actions of one firm, derivatives exchange BitMEX, a researcher found
`lh` and `rlh` units
5.5.2020
There’s some new units I was totally unaware of from the Level 4 spec for CSS values! The lh unit is “equal to the computed value of line-height” and rlh is the same only of the root element (probably the <html> element) rather than the current element.
Why would that...
US Treasury to ‘Borrow’ $3 Trillion for a Single Quarter – Anticipates Taking Billions More for Q3
5.5.2020
On Monday, the United States Department of the Treasury announced it will be “borrowing” a record $3 trillion to help support the American economy. The move comes after the Federal Reserve dished out over $6 trillion to private dealers before the first U.S. Covid-19 death, and the $1.5...
BlockFi Snaps up Execs From AmEx & Credit Suisse; Tokenized Pet Care + More News
5.5.2020
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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.
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BlockFi Snaps up Execs From AmEx & Credit Suisse; Tokenized pet care
Major US-based...
MyCryptoMixer 2020 – The Best Bitcoin Mixer Necessary To Protect User’s Anonymity and Privacy
5.5.2020
Governments and law enforcement agencies have been alerted to the possible illicit use of the pseudonymous Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies ever since the notorious darknet marketplace Silk Road was shut down permanently by FBI, which seized more than 144,000 BTC derived from transactions made...
The Anatomy of a Tablist Component in Vanilla JavaScript Versus React
5.5.2020
If you follow the undercurrent of the JavaScript community, there seems to be a divide as of late. It goes back over a decade. Really, this sort of strife has always been. Perhaps it is human nature.
Whenever a popular framework gains traction, you inevitably see people comparing it to rivals....
List Style Recipes
5.5.2020
Lists are a fundamental part of HTML! They are useful in things like blog posts for listing out steps, recipes for listing ingredients, or items in a navigation menu. Not only are they an opportunity for styling, but they have accessibility implications. For example, the number of items in a list...
Angular + Jamstack! (Free Webinar)
5.5.2020
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It’s easy to think that working with Jamstack means working with some specific set of technologies. That’s how it’s traditionally been packaged for us. Think LAMP stack, where Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP are explicit tools and languages. or MEAN...
A Trader’s View on the Bitcoin Halving and Coronavirus
5.5.2020
The last time the block reward for Bitcoin mining was halved was in July 2016. Since then, the crypto marketsContinue Reading
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Playing With (Fake) Container Queries With watched-box & resizeasaurus
5.5.2020
Heydon’s <watched-box> is a damn fantastic tool. It’s a custom element that essentially does container queries by way of class names that get added to the box based on size breakpoints that are calculated with ResizeObserver. It’s like a cleaner version of what Philip...
Kraken CEO Underwent Surgery, Bitcoin Fees Skyrocket + More News
4.5.2020
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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.
Exchanges news
Jesse Powell, CEO of major crypto exchange Kraken, has revealed to the crypto community via...
No-Comma Color Functions in CSS
4.5.2020
There have been a couple of viral tweets about this lately, one from Adam Argyle and one from Mathias Bynes. This is a nice change that makes CSS a bit more clear. Before, every single color function actually needs two functions, one for transparency and one without, this eliminates that need...
90 Million More People Can Now Spend Crypto With TenX
4.5.2020
TenX’s popular Visa debit card—which lets you spend cryptocurrency without having to manually top up—has launched in Germany and Austria. It supports Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Litecoin (LTC), all of which can be spent anywhere that accepts Visa thanks to the card’s unique auto-convert...
Creating a Gauge in React
3.5.2020
You should really look at everything Amelia does, but I get extra excited about her interactive blog posts. Her latest about creating a gauge with SVG in React is unreal. Just the stuff about understanding viewBox is amazing and that’s like 10% of it.
Don’t miss her earlier posts like...
Bitcoin Sextortion: Scams Using Email, Videos, Passwords to Extort BTC
2.5.2020
Millions of people worldwide have received sextortion scam emails in 2020 asking for bitcoin. These bitcoin sextortion schemes sometimes include recipients’ passwords to make the threat more real. The authorities have advised what to do if you receive a bitcoin sextortion email. Bitcoin...
Phuoc Nguyen’s One Page Wonders
2.5.2020
I keep running across these super useful one page sites, and they keep being by the same person! Like this one with over 100 vanilla JavaScript DOM manipulation recipes, this similar one full of one-liners, and this one with loads of layouts. For that last one, making 91 icons for all those design...
Player Hits $250,000 (29 BTC) Slots Jackpot Staying at Home
2.5.2020
Staying at home can pay off, not only for one’s health but also for one’s Bitcoin stash. This statement has never been more true for anyone than the lucky player who just added over 29 BTC to his wallet by playing the exclusive game of Slots. Let’s face it, in most cases, the odds...
12 Months of Onchain Data Shows Bitcoin Whales Obtained Hundreds of BTC from Small Fish
2.5.2020
According to recent data, crypto participants known as ‘bitcoin whales’ have been steadily accumulating bitcoins, and not selling since the ‘Black Thursday’ market carnage on March 12, 2020. Onchain data and blockchain analysis firms indicate that the number of bitcoin...
Why the Dollar Has Never Been Stronger or More Set Up to Fail
1.5.2020
With trillions in money printing, the dollar should be getting weaker. Instead, it’s stronger than ever. What gives? The first of a four-part microseries on the battle for the future of money
Nuclear Power and Blockchain, Crypto Exchanges Boost Hiring + More News
1.5.2020
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.
Blockchain news
The Chinese nuclear industry is tentatively looking at blockchain technology adoption proposals, reports media...