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21 Bitcoin Block Rewards from 2010 Wake Up, $236M Worth of ‘Satoshi Era’ BTC Spent in 10 Months
25.1.2021
On Monday, January 25, 2021, at roughly 2 a.m. (EST), the notorious old school miner from 2010 has spent another consecutive 21 decade-old block rewards with 1,050 bitcoin. This is possibly the same mining entity our newsdesk has been tracking for months. The bitcoin from 2010 moved today follows...
You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr
22.1.2021
There are a lot of grids on the web like this:
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
}
My message is that what they really should be is:
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(10px, 1fr));
}
Why? In …
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UK Investment Firm Aims to Block Ripple From Leveraging Liquid Assets, Jed McCaleb Dumps 28.6 Million XRP
21.1.2021
Court documents show that the company, Tetragon Financial Group, has filed a lawsuit against Ripple after the firm was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The court filing indicates that Tetragon and Ripple allegedly made an agreement, and the SEC case deeming XRP as...
Dan Larimer’s Departure Brings EOS Disappointments to the Fore
20.1.2021
Every company is eyeing bitcoin, including the one that launched EOS
Bitcoin Block 666,666 Fights Evil With a Bible Verse
19.1.2021
The double 'number of the beast' Bitcoin (BTC) block has been mined, carrying a Bible verse as a message.
Late last night, UTC time, the block number 666,666 was mined, and it included an aptly placed message by the sender, reading: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with...
Bible quotation found in Bitcoin block number 666,666
19.1.2021
A Biblical message was unearthed in block number 666,666 of the Bitcoin blockchain: "Do not be overcome by evil..."
Block.one’s Bitcoin reserves are now worth double the entire EOS market cap
15.1.2021
Block.one holds a reported 140,000 BTC which is worth around double the EOS market cap. Does that make EOS a buy?
Rapid Profits: Bitcoin Hashrate Accelerates While Mining Difficulty Touches All-Time High
14.1.2021
The Bitcoin network’s hashrate has been operating at very high processing speeds during the last few weeks, as the overall hashrate touched a whopping 171.2 exahash per second (EH/s) on Monday. Moreover, the network’s mining difficulty has also touched an all-time high (ATH) at 20.61...
Dynamic, Conditional Imports
13.1.2021
With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:
import confetti from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/canvas-confetti';
confetti();
That import statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this:
(async ()
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Four cryptocurrency block reward halvings to look out for in 2021
13.1.2021
Could block reward halvings scheduled for the coming year prove beneficial for the valuations of these four cryptocurrencies?
Fixing Smooth Scrolling with Find-on-Page
13.1.2021
Back when we released the v17 design (we’re on v18 now) of this site. I added html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } to the CSS. Right away, I got comments like this (just one example):
… when you control+f or
…
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Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
11.1.2021
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan
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Russian Banks Given Power to Freeze or Block Crypto-linked Accounts
11.1.2021
New Russian banking regulations will allow financial institutions to freeze or block the bank accounts of individuals or companies they think are associated with crypto activities.
The rule change have been imposed by the nation’s Central Bank, which has outlined changes it will make to...
Sleeping Bitcoins Worth $40 Million Move- Mystery Miner Spends Another 1,000 BTC From 2010 Block Rewards
10.1.2021
On January 10, another strange string of 20 bitcoin block rewards from 2010 was spent after sitting idle for over ten years. The spending of 1,000 decade-old bitcoins worth over $39 million today, follows the recent string of 1,000 units transferred on the 12th anniversary of Bitcoin’s...
Daniel Larimer, CTO of EOSIO developers block.one, resigns
10.1.2021
In a short blog post on EOS social media platform Voice, Larimer hinted at future social media development
CTO Dan Larimer Announces Departure From EOS Builder Block.One
10.1.2021
Dan Larimer has left Block.one, the company that raised $4 billion to build the software behind the EOS blockchain
Bitcoin turning 12: From the Genesis block to Wall Street adoption
9.1.2021
The Bitcoin network as we know it today officially kicked off exactly 12 years ago when Satoshi Nakamoto released the first software client
FT reveals Bitcoin headline on 12th anniversary of genesis block
4.1.2021
A timely tribute to the king of cryptocurrency features alongside a coronavirus headline, which says it all about the fiat economy in the 12 years since 2009
Make Your Own Tools
4.1.2021
Spencer Miskoviak on the Wealthfront blog:
By creating custom DevTools specific to an app, they can operate at an even higher abstraction to handle things like user interactions, or debugging tracking events. While this requires building and maintaining the
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Billionaires, Teslas, and Satoshi: fun facts for Genesis Block Day
3.1.2021
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block 12 years ago today