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How to Use Bitcoin to Invest in Gold
8.6.2019
Gold and bitcoin enjoy a curious relationship. On the one hand, there is a significant crossover between investors in both, particularly from libertarians who don’t trust the U.S. dollar. But on the other hand, initiatives such as #DropGold have sought to position bitcoin as a more portable...
Ripple and MoneyGram Don't Comment as Acquisition Rumors are Flying
6.6.2019
After a rumor broke out yesterday that Ripple, a California-based crypto start-up focusing on the banking sector, has acquired the major US-based money transfer company MoneyGram, both companies refused to comment. Both have stated that they do not comment on speculations and rumors as a rule,...
Using the Grid Shepherd Technique to Order Data with CSS
28.5.2019
Shepherds are good at tending to their sheep, bringing order and structure to their herds. Even if there are hundreds of those wooly animals, a shepherd still herds them back to the farm at the end of the day.
When dealing with data, programmers often don't know if it is correctly filtered...
How to Easily Convert Funds From BTC to BCH
28.5.2019
Converting funds from one cryptocurrency to another using an exchange can be costly and time consuming, especially if you don’t already have a verified account at one. Luckily there are much faster and convenient ways, such as switching from BTC to BCH right inside the Bitcoin.com Wallet app....
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2018: Delivering Optimized Resources
28.5.2019
Don’t just get assets from your resources pool and dump it right into your web pages. There is always a high chance that SVGs, images, fonts, videos, and every kind of asset you can think of come i
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2019: Delivering Optimized Resources
28.5.2019
Don’t just get assets from your resources pool and dump it right into your web pages. There is always a high chance that SVGs, images, fonts, videos, and every kind of asset you can think of come i
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade and 30K Stores Accepting BCH in the Weekly Update From Bitcoin.com
19.5.2019
Bitcoin Cash network successfully undergoes an upgrade and more than 30,000 new stores now accept BCH payments. Watch these and other developments discussed in this week’s video update on Bitcoin.com’s Youtube channel. Also Read: After Trillions Printed Under QE, Politicians Now...
After Trillions Printed Under QE, Politicians Now Say Deficits Don’t Matter
19.5.2019
When quantitative easing (QE) was introduced, it was likened to a drug, with central banks making an emergency injection of money to resuscitate the global economy. Now it seems that some politicians have gotten addicted to this drug, going as far as to claim that government deficits don’t...
How to Prove Ownership With a Bitcoin Cash Address and Digital Signature
18.5.2019
Bitcoin is an amazing form of money and the technology Satoshi created has incredible potential. However, most people don’t realize that the blockchain not only allows for a great medium of exchange, but it also provides the means for creating notarized proofs. The following walkthrough aims...
Crypto Exchange BitMEX Reveals Most of Its Users Don’t Use Maximum Leverage
16.5.2019
The maximum 100x leverage offered by the Hong Kong cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BitMEX is rarely used
Whole Foods, Starbucks and Nordstrom, Accept Bitcoin As Payments But Don’t Acknowledge
15.5.2019
Ever since cryptocurrencies were first created, the ultimate aim of the creators was to ensure that it became an alternative and seamless mode of payments, but that always seemed to be a pipe dream as it was not accepted as legal tender anywhere. However, the atmosphere surrounding had started...
How to Send Bitcoin Cash via Text Messages to Anyone With a Mobile Phone
14.5.2019
Cointext allows you to send bitcoin cash (BCH) to anyone with a mobile phone in the regions supported by the service even if you don’t have access to the internet. On a global scale, the availability of cheap devices can help many more people use cryptocurrency for payments via SMS text...
Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali: ‘You Don’t Need a Blockchain’ for All Dapps
14.5.2019
Apps across the space are putting too much reliance (and data) on blockchains, argued Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali at Consensus 2019
Bitcoin’s Software Has Been Rolled Back Before
9.5.2019
When Binance lost $40 million to hackers this week, the crypto community discussed reorganizing the chain after it was suggested by a developer from MIT. Many people were upset by this proposition, declaring that there was no way a coordinated effort with miners could be pulled off. However, most...
A responsive grid layout with no media queries
9.5.2019
Andy Bell made a really cool demo that shows us how to create a responsive grid layout without any media queries at all. It happens to look like this when you change the size of the browser window:
I think this is a wonderful layout technique that’s just 6 lines (!) of CSS.
.auto-grid...
Florincoin – The 2013 Altcoin You Don’t Remember – Is Attracting Real Users
9.5.2019
An obscure cryptocurrency that first started getting noticed during the 2014 altcoin boom is showing itself a true diamond in the rough
Why, How, and When to Use Semantic HTML and ARIA
7.5.2019
Semantic HTML and Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) help create interfaces that work for everyone in the most performant, robust, and simple way possible. They add essential meaning to your content, which lets web browsers, search engines, screen readers, RSS readers, and ultimately...
The Best React Extension for VS Code
10.4.2019
When working with React, there's lots of code that gets repeated over and over....and over and over again. Eventually, you start to think, "there's got to be a better way". Don't w
Community Coding For The Web
8.4.2019
Open source barriers
Right now, it's too hard to contribute to open source.
This leads to a few things that are bad:
People who have good ideas don't co
Form Validation in Under an Hour with Vuelidate
2.4.2019
Form validation has a reputation for being tricky to implement. In this tutorial, we’ll break things down to alleviate some of that pain. Creating nice abstractions for forms is something that Vue.js excels at and Vuelidate is personally my favorite option for validations because it doesn't require...