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Bitcoin Hashrate Surges Tapping Lifetime High, Foundry Commands Top Mining Pool Rank for 30 Days
14.2.2022
The processing power backing the Bitcoin network has tapped another all-time high (ATH) in 2022, reaching 246 exahash per second (EH/s) on February 12. After the network reached an ATH on January 15, a month later the hashrate increased by 12.43% — this despite the network’s mining...
Yet Another Japanese Gaming Peripheral For The Truly Lazy
9.2.2022
That’s not a massage table! You are looking at the Lying Face Down Sleep Cushion Z. Pointed out by Gizmodo Japan and PC Watch, it was specifically created for you to place your head between the two cushions and play video games, look at your phone or tablet, and even read books. Read more
Bitcoin needs to reclaim these two levels to avoid another a $28K dip
9.2.2022
Bitcoin price action will stay stuck in the lower half of its macro range unless two key moving averages can flip to support
Using Different Color Spaces for Non-Boring Gradients
7.2.2022
A little gradient generator tool from Tom Quinonero. You’d think fading one color to another would be an obvious, simple, solved problem — it’s actually anything but!
Tom’s generator does two things that help make a gradient better:
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CryptoAltum Launches Zero Fee ‘CryptoConvert’ and Lists Doge and Shiba on MT5
7.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. When it comes to the cryptocurrency industry, it is absolutely vital to be able to convert one cryptocurrency, token or coin for another in an effective, seamless and easy to understand fashion. After all, it is this conversion ability that makes the crypto sector so attractive,...
Florida Home to Be Sold as an NFT, Decentralized Organization Seeks Bel Air Megamansion
7.2.2022
According to a California-based real estate technology company called Propy, a four-bedroom home in Gulfport, Florida, will be tokenized leveraging non-fungible token (NFT) technology and sold for $650K. In addition to the Gulfport home, another blockchain project has launched aiming to purchase...
Another Case for Bitcoin as Lebanon Reportedly Targets Depositors’ Fiat
2.2.2022
Lebanon allegedly plans to forcibly convert foreign currency holdings to its floundering pound (LBP), once again building a case for Bitcoin (BTC).
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that it had seen a government “blueprint” plan designed to fight the ongoing financial crisis. The plan,...
Another solo Bitcoin miner solves valid block, making it fourth in 2022
1.2.2022
A 'whale' solo Bitcoin miner with a whopping 1.14PH/s computing power solved a valid block on Tuesday
The Chess World Is Losing Its Mind Over One Grandmaster Potentially Trolling Another
31.1.2022
A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to be a troll (probably). A vitriolic fanbase armed with keyboards and anonymous screen names. And you thought these sorts of things only happened in video games. But even chess, a turn-based strategy game first released for wooden...
Crypto Market Sentiment Takes Another Dive, 5 of the 10 Major Coins in the Negative Zone
31.1.2022
It hasn’t been a good week for the crypto market, and it seems to have been even worse for crypto market sentiment. The average 7-day moving crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) for ten major cryptoassets dropped from 5.05 recorded a week ago to 4.39 we’re seeing today, according to...
Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension
31.1.2022
Readers of my blog will know that I’ve been banging the Cloudinary drum for years. Their awesome media capabilities allow users to optimally deliver images, video, and audio in any format and to any device. Performance, customization, flexibility, optimized delivery… Cloudinary makes...
Crypto mining won’t survive another round of environmental legislation
29.1.2022
Blockchain mining’s massive carbon footprint is impossible to justify — and puts it in the crosshairs of global environmental legislation
Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks
26.1.2022
Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern? Like where a colored section of a website ends and another differently colored section begins — not with a straight line, but angled zig zags, rounded humps, …
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Yet another solo Bitcoin miner solved a valid block, earning a reward worth over $220,000
25.1.2022
Mining bitcoin without any help from a larger pool has become an increasingly-improbable feat over the last decade
Another Headache for Bitcoin Miners in Central Asia as Three Countries Hit With Blackouts
25.1.2022
Three of the Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan — have been hit by a power blackout after Kazakhstan’s North-South power line was disconnected due to “emergency imbalances.”...
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Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
21.1.2022
Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. These lifecycle callbacks can be used for many things, including making …
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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Stresses Crypto Trading Platforms Must Be Regulated to Ensure Investor Protection
20.1.2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is focusing on bringing cryptocurrency exchanges “inside the investor protection remit,” Chairman Gary Gensler has revealed. “If the trading platforms don’t come into the regulated space, it’d be another year...
Another Solo Miner Wins 'Life-Changing' Sum, Rakes In USD 536K in Ethereum Block Reward
18.1.2022
Solo miners are off to a strong start this year. On Monday, a solo Ethereum (ETH) miner with an average hashrate capacity of 2.19 Giga hashes per second (GH/s) won a block race on the Ethereum blockchain and raked in a reward of ETH 168, currently worth just below USD 536,000. ...
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Wordle Brings Accidental Windfall To Another Dev, Who Gives It All To Charity
17.1.2022
You know how everything is awful? Well, wait! This isn’t! Wordle, the super-simple Mastermind-like word game that has taken over planet Earth, seems to create goodwill in its wake—the latest being that of Steven Cravotta, whose five-year-old app with the same name has found itself at the top of...
What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
17.1.2022
Another year has passed and once again I’ve had the privilege of going through the Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives from the past 12 months to hunt down the front-end tools that readers found to be the most interesting during …
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