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Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Squish Effect
6.3.2020
The first rule of animating on the web: don't animate width and height. It forces the browser to recalculate a bunch of stuff and it's slow (or "expensive" as they say). If you can get away with it, animating any transform property is faster (and "cheaper").
Butttt, transform can be tricky. Check...
China to Build Another Blockchain Special Zone + More News
5.3.2020
A long-span suspension bridge, Hunan, China. Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Adoption news
The government of Hunan Province, China, will create a blockchain...
Australia Crypto Merchant Trade Sets $74K Monthly Record With BCH Capturing 97%
5.3.2020
Cryptocurrency payments in Australia, which have been growing in volume in the past few years, have recently scored another record. Crypto-based merchant trade across the country reached almost $74,000 in February according to a new report. Bitcoin cash has by far the largest share in retail crypto...
Xiaomi Makes Another Move Into Blockchain With New Joint Venture
3.3.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/xiaomi.global
It looks like the Chinese smartphone and electronics giant Xiaomi is taking its blockchain plans more seriously. Recently, the company set up a joint venture to focus on new business areas such as blockchain, big data, and artificial intelligence...
Is Coinbase Another Step Closer to Opening in Japan?
2.3.2020
American exchange giant Coinbase has become a second-tier member of the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), the only officially recognized self-regulatory body of Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges.
The JVCEA’s first-tier comprises exchanges that have been granted an official...
Bitfinex Completes Another $100M Loan Facility Repayment to Tether
28.2.2020
Hours after experiencing a major DDoS attack, Bitfinex announces repayment of another $100 million of the loan facility to Tether
Another Asian Giant-backed Crypto Exchange Set to Enter U.S. Market
28.2.2020
International players are looking to move into the American cryptocurrency exchange market – with the South Korean-Japanese chat app operator Line set to open a trading platform in the country.
Per Japanese media outlet Coin Post and South Korean newspaper Hanguk Kyungjae, the new exchange will...
Animated Matryoshka Dolls in CSS
27.2.2020
Here’s a fun one. How might we create a set of those cool Matryoshka dolls where they nest inside one another... but in CSS?
I toyed with this idea in my head for a little while. Then, I saw a tweet from CSS-Tricks and the article image had the dolls. I took that as a sign! It was time to...
MoneyGram Got Another $11M From Ripple to Use Its Cross-Border Payments Tech
25.2.2020
Payments firm Ripple has given MoneyGram over $11 million dollars in the past half year, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
How to Specify User Agent with cURL
25.2.2020
Over the years I’ve shared how to perform a number of actions with cURL: how to send POST data, how to retrieve headers, follow redirects, check GZIP encoding, and more. Another useful cURL directive is sending the user agent, as some servers respond with different content or headers...
Why Another Drop Below $9.4K Would Not Bode Well for Bitcoin Price
24.2.2020
A drop in trading volume and volatility signal that a larger move is imminent from Bitcoin
SEC to Decide the Fate of Another Bitcoin ETF Proposal This Week
24.2.2020
The SEC is poised to rule on another bitcoin ETF application this week. Wilshire Phoenix is hoping its novel fund structure might help it succeed where others have not
A Guide to Console Commands
21.2.2020
The developer’s debugging console has been available in one form or another in web browsers for many years. Starting out as a means for errors to be reported to the developer, its capabilities have increased in many ways; such as automatically logging information like network requests, network...
Virgin Galactic Stock Is Skyrocketing, Will Take Bitcoin to Shoot You Into Space
20.2.2020
Virgin Galactic is one of the leading ventures in the emerging private space race alongside companies such as Spacex. However, it is being compared now mostly to another Elon Musk creation – Tesla. This is because Virgin Galactic stock is skyrocketing as traders rush in to bet on...
Another ICO Set to Close and Refund Investors, Blames Regulatory Fog
19.2.2020
Another South Korean cryptocurrency business has announced that it is set to close, citing regulatory uncertainty.
Content Protocol Token, a crypto startup and content exchange protocol built on the Watcha platform (South Korea’s answer to Netflix), has stated that they will close the doors...
Web Component for a Code Block
18.2.2020
We'll get to that, but first, a long-winded introduction.
I'm still not in a confident place knowing a good time to use native web components. The templating isn't particularly robust, so that doesn't draw me in. There is no state management, and I like having standard ways of handling that. If...
DeFi Loses USD 140M in a Few Hours as bZx Suffers Another Exploit
18.2.2020
Assets locked in DeFi (decentralized finance) have dropped more than USD 142 million in a few hours as DeFi platform bZx suffered yet another attack.
Just four days ago, somebody exploited a vulnerability in tokenized margin trading and lending platform bZx, and now the reports are coming out that...
More On-Ramps, Liquidity, Options: Why Bitcoin’s Next Bull Run Will Be Different
17.2.2020
Bitcoin’s next bull run will look very different from the last one. In 2017, BTC took the elevator to $20K before following the stairs down to $3K over the course of 12 months. In 2020, as bitcoin prepares for its halvening – followed by another potential price run –...
Another Crypto Startup Targets the Public With New Fear-busting Mascot
14.2.2020
Blockchain by Figure. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Figure
Silicon Valley-based financial services startup Figure has launched a bid to make distributed ledger technology more approachable – by creating a crypto-themed mascot that its masterminds hope will dispel public fears about...
USD Coin Issuer Circle Sells Another Business + More News
12.2.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
M&A news
Voyager Digital Canada, the operator of U.S. digital asset broker Voyager and the Ethos Universal Wallet, said it...