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Researchers Find Bugs that Could Expose Crypto Wallets on Exchanges
10.8.2020
Security experts said they have unveiled a number of vulnerabilities in the open-source libraries used by numerous crypto exchanges and financial institutions – which could be exploited by hackers looking for a way into users’ wallets.
At a recent Black Hat cybersecurity conference, experts said...
Fixing This Bitcoin-Killing Bug Will (Eventually) Require a Hard Fork
7.8.2020
The bug sheds light on the challenges of Bitcoin's decentralization. At least we've got 86 years for the community to join together and implement a fix
Improving Chromium’s browser compatibility in 2020
7.7.2020
This is exactly what I love to hear from any browser vendor:
When it comes to browser compatibility, there are still too many missing features and edge-case bugs. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Things can and will get better, if browser vendors can understand what is causing the most...
Researcher Refutes ‘Blackmail’ Theory Behind Mysterious Ether Transactions
16.6.2020
The abnormal transaction fees from last week may not be blackmail after all, according to Alex Manuskin, a blockchain researcher at wallet company ZenGo
Chrome + System Fonts Snafu
24.4.2020
There was just a bug late last year where system fonts (at least on Mac, I don’t know what the story was on other platforms) in Chrome appeared too thin and tracked-in at small sizes and too thick and tracked-out at larger sizes. That one was fixed, thankfully. But while it was a problem,...
How MakerDAO’s Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization
29.3.2020
How do DeFi stablecoins actually work and what happened during the sudden, precipitous drop in crypto prices earlier this month? On today's show Andreas M. Antonopoulos leads us through a very interesting system and how it survived 'Black Thursday'
CSS :nth-of-class selector
23.3.2020
That's not a thing.
But it kinda is!
Bram covers how frustrating .bar:nth-child(2) is. It's not "select the second element of class .bar." It's "select the second element if it also has the class .bar." The good news? There is a real selector that does the former:
:nth-child(2 of .bar) { }
Safari...
Bugs Found in Compiler for Readable Ethereum Smart Contracts, Team Downplays Concerns
9.1.2020
Bugs in Vyper Compiler do not affect the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract, argue its maintainers
Twitter Bug Exposed Millions of User Phone Numbers
26.12.2019
A bug in Twitter's Android app let users connect random phone numbers to real Twitter handles
A Dangerous Bug in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Been Fixed
27.9.2019
Bitcoin developer Rusty Russell disclosed Friday the lightning network vulnerability that forced software upgrades in July
Bitcoin’s Early Days: How Crypto’s Past Is Much Different Than the Present
8.9.2019
Over the last 24 hours, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been discussing a transaction that saw 94,000 BTC sent to an unknown wallet. The hoopla over the large transaction shows how things have changed significantly over the last decade. Back in cryptocurrency’s early days, between 2010-2012...
Coinbase Reveals Password Glitch Affecting 3,500 Customers
16.8.2019
The rare bug impacted roughly .01 percent of the exchange's 30 million customers, Coinbase revealed Friday
Blockchain Provider Terra Signs Bugs, a Music Streaming Platform, to Its Alliance
14.8.2019
The music steaming service will join twenty-five partners in a South Korean crypto payments alliance
How to Debug Remote Browsers
27.6.2019
It’s super frustrating when bugs pop up only in a remote browser. Something about that user, that device, or that environment is different, but I don’t know what! And of course, I can’t recreate it on my local development machine. The team at TrackJS came up with a cool way...
Tendermint Says Last Month’s Cosmos Vulnerability Exposed Security Loophole
17.6.2019
Tendermint Inc. – the for-profit entity behind the core technology of the Cosmos network – released today a full disclosure about a former security vulnerability in the Cosmos SDK
Bounty.Cash Pairs Projects With Developers Finding Solutions for BCH
14.6.2019
Using bounties to seek solutions to various problems has proved to be a working approach for many projects in the crypto industry. Bounty.Cash is a platform that matches businesses and entrepreneurs with developers who are ready to solve issues with apps and features and get rewarded with bitcoin...
Getting started with visual testing in 5 minutes
16.4.2019
There are tons of tools out there that help you make sure your app is functioning perfectly, but how do you catch bugs that are purely visual?
Report: Over 40 Bugs in Blockchain and Crypto Platforms Detected Over Past 30 Days
14.3.2019
Researchers have reportedly detected over 40 bugs in major blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms over the past month
Writing Tests for React Applications Using Jest and Enzyme
1.3.2019
While it is important to have a well-tested API, solid test coverage is a must for any React application. Tests increase confidence in the code and helps prevent shipping bugs to users.
That’s why we’re going to focus on testing in this post, specifically for React applications. By the end, you’ll...
Getting to Grips with the Airtable API
14.2.2019
The Airtable web app is pretty neat. You can use it like a spreadsheet but it’s useful for all sorts of other things too. The neatest thing about it for me is that it has an API so that you can treat it like a database.
I’ve been thinking about making weekly notes for the different teams I work...