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Bilateral Saudi, UAE Digital Currency Experiment Shows Benefits of Distributed Ledgers, Central Banks Say
29.11.2020
A joint Saudi and UAE CBDC pilot found that a distributed payment system offers “significant improvement over centralized payment systems.”
Experts say institutions drove Bitcoin's rise to $19K and that alt-season is coming
26.11.2020
Market analysts are attributing Bitcoin’s sudden surge above $19,000 to aggressive demand from financial institutions and leading companies in the United States
Tailwind versus BEM
25.11.2020
Some really refreshing technological comparison writing from Eric Bailey. Like, ya know, everything in life, we don’t have to hate or love everything. Baby bear thinking, I like to say. There are benefits and drawbacks. Every single bullet point here is well-considered and valid. I really...
Economic justice doesn't need the blockchain, say advisors to ‘The Squad’
25.11.2020
Making digital cash work efficiently for public stimulus payments doesn't require a detour through blockchain technology, in the view of U.S. progressives
Rendering Spectrum
25.11.2020
Here are the big categories of rendering websites:
Client: ship a <div id="root"></div> and let a JavaScript template render all of it.
Static: pre-render all the HTML.
Server: let a live server process requests and generate the HTML response.
They are not mutually exclusive....
How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy
24.11.2020
A web font workflow is simple, right? Choose a few nice-looking web-ready fonts, get the HTML or CSS code snippet, plop it in the project, and check if they display properly. People do this with Google Fonts a zillion times a day, dropping its <link> tag into the <head>.
Let’s...
Graphery SVG
24.11.2020
I’ve compared SVG and Canvas before. If you’re trying to decide between them, read that. I’d say the #1 difference between them is vector (SVG) versus raster (Canvas). But the #2 difference is how you work with them. SVG is declarative, as in, literal elements that express what they are through...
More Institutions Are Buying Bitcoin, Say JP Morgan Analysts
23.11.2020
In their “Flows & Liquidity” report, JP Morgan analysts say institutions are piling into bitcoin at a stronger pace this quarter than they were in Q3 and may have a bigger role in price movement than quantitative traders
PayPal CEO Schulman Say He’s Bullish on Bitcoin as a Currency
23.11.2020
Schulman spoke the fall of cash, the rise of bitcoin, and the institutional traders taking note
Millionaires FOMO: 73% Will Own Bitcoin by 2022, Survey
19.11.2020
Hundreds of millionaires have revealed in a new survey that they have either already invested in bitcoin or are planning to invest in the cryptocurrency in the next couple of years. Millionaires Don’t Want to Miss Out on Bitcoin A new global poll by Devere Group shows that 73% of millionaires...
DeFi Exploits Can’t Be Pinned on Flash Loans, Industry Leaders Say
18.11.2020
DeFi’s novel flash loan products aren't to blame for the recent string of exploits, industry leaders say
Origin Defi Protocol Suffers Massive Flash Loan Attack- OUSD Stablecoin Value Plunges 85%
18.11.2020
The OUSD stablecoin issuer, Origin Protocol is the latest Defi protocol to fall victim to a flash loan attack. The attack, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, on November 17, resulted in the disappearance of tokens worth millions of dollars. Confirming the attack, one of...
Traders say $15.5K level ‘crucial’ after Bitcoin price dips below parabola
16.11.2020
Bitcoin price dropped below the parabola on the 12-hour timeframe but traders aren't calling for a big correction yet
Macro factors could bring Bitcoin to $1 trillion market cap, strategic investor say
12.11.2020
Strategic investor Lyn Alden says 2020 macroeconomic environment is extremely favourable to Bitcoin
Venezuelan State Electricity Company Reportedly Cuts Power To Crypto Miners
12.11.2020
Reports say the Venezuelan state electricity company Corpoelec is disconnecting bitcoin mining farms in Carabobo state on orders from authorities. The power disconnections come amid reports that government and Corpoelec officials are planning to meet mining farm operators. According to one report...
OCC is too caught up in crypto under former Coinbase exec, congresspeople say
11.11.2020
Multiple United States congresspersons recently expressed their displeasure at the OCC's focus on crypto this year
Bitcoin Likely to Consolidate Before December Rise Toward $20K, Say Analysts
11.11.2020
The bitcoin market is likely to take a breather before continuing its rise toward $20,000 the end of the year, analysts told CoinDesk
Understanding flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis
11.11.2020
When you apply a CSS property to an element, there’s lots of things going on under the hood. For example, let’s say we have some HTML like this:
<div class="parent"<div class="child"Child</div<div class="child"Child</div<div class="child"Child</div</div
And...
Coronavirus Driving Interest in CBDCs, Say Central Bank Chiefs
6.11.2020
Central banks meeting in Russia said the coronavirus pandemic is a driving force behind growing interest in national digital currencies
More crypto regulation is coming, industry execs say
6.11.2020
After multiple years of heightened legal overwatch, the future may hold much of the same