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BitPay to Enable Merchant Payments From All Bitcoin Wallets + More News
4.2.2020
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.
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Major crypto payments provider BitPay said that it will soon allow all BitPay invoices to be paid from any bitcoin...
PHP is A-OK for Templating
4.2.2020
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure without depending on a purpose-built templating engine.
But first, a very brief PHP history lesson
The...
Overcomplicatin’
4.2.2020
There's some famous quote that goes something like...
When we're young, we make simple things because that's all we know. Then we learn how to make complex things so we make complex things. When we grow old, we learn to make simple things again.
Brad recently wrote about this abstractly in regard...
Possibly The Easiest Way to Run an SSG
4.2.2020
"Static Site Generator," that is. We'll get to that in a second.
Netlify is a sponsor of this site (thank you very much), and I see Zach Leatherman has gone to work over there now. Very cool. Zach is the creator of Eleventy, an SSG for Node. One thing of the many notable things about Eleventy...
US Government Auctioning off Bitcoins Worth $37 Million in 2 Weeks
4.2.2020
The U.S. government has opened registration for the bidding of over 4,040 bitcoins, currently worth more than $37 million, which will be auctioned off on Feb. 18. The winning bidder will be notified on the same day. These bitcoins were forfeited in various federal criminal, civil and administrative...
BitPay CEO: Platform Will Support More Cryptocurrencies and Possibly Lightning Network
4.2.2020
BitPay CEO says platform will add support for more cryptocurrencies, along with possible integration of the Lightning Network
5 Mining Operations Command More Than 50% of BTC’s Network Hashrate
3.2.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing mining centralization after a report was published that disclosed five mining operations command more than 50% of the BTC hashrate. At the time of publication, between F2pool, Poolin, Btc.com, and Antpool, the pools are hashing more than 59% of...
The Three Types of Code
3.2.2020
Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. And I think these types can be applied to any codebase, any language, any technology or open source project. Whether I’m writing HTML or CSS or building a React component, thinking...
Freezing User-Agent Strings
3.2.2020
There's been news about Chrome freezing their User-Agent string (and all other major browsers are on board). That means they'll still have a User-Agent (UA) string (that comes across in headers and is available in JavaScript as navigator.userAgent. By freezing it, it will be less useful over time...
‘What You Said’ – Feb. 3, 2020
3.2.2020
Welcome to a new weekly blog series “What You Said” where we conduct fun polls to our community and shareContinue Reading
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“What You Said” (Feb. 3), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
3.2.2020
Welcome to a new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community and shareContinue Reading
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“What You Said” (Feb. 3), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
3.2.2020
Welcome to a new weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community and shareContinue Reading
The post “What You Said” (Feb. 3), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community appeared first on CoinMarketCap Blog
China Stocks Plummet Despite 1.2 Trillion Yuan Injection to Mitigate Effects of Epidemic
3.2.2020
China’s stock market plunged Monday under selling pressure accumulated during a prolonged holiday. Investors have been worried by the coronavirus outbreak that’s already taken the lives of more than 360 people. Beijing authorities have responded by pumping well over a trillion yuan into...
Some Coinbase Users Can’t Withdraw More Than $10 in Bitcoin a Day
3.2.2020
Some Coinbase users cannot withdraw more than $10 per day from the exchange, a Redditor complains
How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With HTML, CSS and JavaScript
3.2.2020
Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think and only requires the trifecta of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Let’s make one together!
This is what...
Politician to Form Blockchain-powered Party + More News
3.2.2020
National Assembly Building in Seoul. 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
Former presidential candidate, tech entrepreneur and leading South Korean...
Get Moving (or not) with CSS Motion Path
3.2.2020
We just linked up the idea that offset-path can be cleverly used to set type on a path. Don't miss Michelle Barker's experimentation either, with drawing paths or animating text along a path.
Dan Wilson has also been following this tech for quite a while and points out why the sudden surge...
MIT Develops ‘Spider’ Tech to Enable More Efficient Off-Chain Crypto Transactions
3.2.2020
The researchers say their new routing scheme can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency networks
Kapitáne, potřebujeme víc klíčových slov
3.2.2020
Překlad textu We need more keywords, captain!, který napsal Brian Goetz na fórum OpenJDK
Cambodia Announces Own Cryptocurrency as More Details Surface About China’s Digital Yuan
3.2.2020
With China still in the lead, other countries are advancing their projects to develop payment systems around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Cambodia, for example, has recently revealed it will mint its own coin within months. The news comes as more details about the digital Chinese yuan...