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React Authentication & Access Control
1.4.2021
Authentication and access control are required for most applications, but they often distract us from building core features. In this article, I’ll cover a straightforward way to add auth and access control in React.
Instead of adding a static library …
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This is how to make — and lose — a fortune with NFTs
31.3.2021
Institutions & Retail Compete For Bitcoin - Whose Hands Are Stronger?
28.3.2021
The institutional investors are here, bringing with them billions of dollars and record-high bitcoin (BTC) prices. This is something the market had been expecting for years, but now that it has finally arrived, it potentially brings risks as well as benefits.
Might institutions be less ‘loyal’...
Money Laundering Might Taint NFTs Too, Prepare For Tighter Controls
27.3.2021
Copycat by Gala Mirissa. While non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are certainly the big thing in crypto at the moment, they aren’t without their problems. Aside from accusations of hype and faddishness, NFTs also raise the familiar and thorny issue of money laundering.
Without much in the way...
Dipping Bitcoin, Bitcoining Tesla, Angering BitClout + 20 Crypto Jokes
27.3.2021
This was a big week in crypto. Tesla now accepts bitcoin payments and doesn’t plan to convert it to fiat, but BTC was tanking despite many bullish news as a massive amount of options was about to expire. Then, another analyst said that EIP-1559 will not end users headache caused by Ethereum high...
Bitcoin Cash-Powered Onlycoins Aims to Compete with the Popular Content Platform Onlyfans
27.3.2021
Recently, Bitcoin Cash proponents have been introduced to a new application that competes with the content subscription service Onlyfans. The web portal Onlycoins is a service that is similar to Onlyfans but instead, creators can earn bitcoin cash by posting quality content and gathering...
DeFi, derivatives and fixing an antiquated financial system: Kristin Boggiano
26.3.2021
Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Reveals Protocol Version 3 With New Automated Elements
25.3.2021
Roughly 28 months ago, the decentralized exchange (dex) Uniswap version one (v1) was released and then in May 2020, version two was launched with new features. The dex is by far the largest decentralized trading platform among its competitors, as the exchange swapped $7.1 billion during the last...
Japanese City Features Slowpoke On Postal Truck And Mail Box
23.3.2021
Slowpoke might not exactly be the image postal carriers are going for, but in Japan, the sluggishly cute Pokémon is known as Yadon.Read more
Updated FATF Crypto Guidelines Still ‘Predicated on Centralized Control’
21.3.2021
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s recently updated guidance for supervisors overseeing the crypto industry was always bound to create waves in the sector and beyond. Regulators are continuing to gun for crypto compliance – despite claims that they may be trying to force a square peg into...
NFTs Are Selling for Millions, But How Do You Tell a Diamond From a Dud?
20.3.2021
A fragment of 24 Hours in The City That Never Sleeps by Frank Ape. Last sold for ETH 5 (USD 9,144). With a non-fungible token (NFT)-based digital artwork selling for USD 69.35m, you’d be forgiven for assuming that most NFTs are worth a small — or large — fortune. However, for every...
Shifting Blockchains, Moving Privacy, Funds & Trusts and 20 Crypto Jokes
20.3.2021
This past week in crypto, Pantera CEO said that bitcoin is “ahead of” his firm’s forecast schedule to hit USD 115,000, analysts blamed misinfo for bitcoin’s correction, SushiSwap announced its expansion to Avalanche, and Charles Hoskinson claimed that “more than 100 companies” will shift from...
Why This Bitcoin-Believing Startup Bets on Facebook's Diem Instead
19.3.2021
While the eyes of many are on major crypto networks like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) (and NFTs, of course), financial service provider First Digital Asset Group (FDAG) together with their investors are betting on more centralized, Facebook-backed Diem (formerly - Libra) stablecoin.
“Bitcoin...
A Crypto Vanity Dream Now Features Musk, Beeple, Justin Sun, DOGE and NFTs
16.3.2021
Source: Twitter/@beeple
The year is but two and half months old, but 2021 is already going into full meltdown mode, with Tesla’s Elon Musk seeking to sell an EDM song about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital artist Beeple composing a portrait of a naked Musk mounted on a dogecoin (DOGE) dog –...
Post-COVID-19, Bitcoin & Co May Help UK Escape from Economic Funk
14.3.2021
After the UK’s decidedly mixed response to the coronavirus pandemic, the nation has proven something of a frontrunner in all things vaccine-related, leading it to start easing out of its latest two-month-plus national lockdown on March 8 ahead of its European counterparts – almost a year since...
Bitcoin payday? Crypto to revolutionize job wages… or not
13.3.2021
Ethereum Developers On Why They Don’t See Cardano & Binance Chain As Rivals
13.3.2021
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Max Holloway
It has been an interesting few weeks for Ethereum (ETH). Having hit an all-time high of USD 2,043 on February 20, it has been outshone by a couple of rival platforms and cryptoassets, Binance Smart Chain (and BNB) and Cardano (and ADA).
While neither...
Bomb Demons, Force Shows, NFT Everything and 20 Crypto Jokes
13.3.2021
This adventurous cryptoweek, Vitalik Buterin said Tether is Bitcoin’s ticking time bomb demon, some Ethereum miners are preparing for "a show of force" against EIP-1559, and analysts said ETH miners don’t cause price volatility. Also, XRP jumped as Ripple said its partnership with...
Storming the ‘last bastion’: Angst and anger as NFTs claim high-culture status
11.3.2021
Swaps and NFTs Accelerate MetaMask's Growth
10.3.2021
Source: A Screenshot, Instagram/metamask.io
ConsenSys-owned major Ethereum (ETH) wallet and Web 3.0 browser MetaMask saw its swap feature growing substantially, while non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are also gaining traction.
Their token swap feature, which enables users to compare and swap tokens...