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Ripple Labs and Hong Kong’s Fubon Bank Team to Offer Property Equity Access to Locals
31.10.2023
Ripple Labs is working on a pilot program with Hong Kong’s Fubon Bank to offer property equity access to residents. The developer of the XRP cryptocurrency revealed that the collaboration is a part of the e-HKD pilot project. Ripple and Fubon Bank were selected to demonstrate a use case...
Texas City FBI Warns Locals of Government Impersonation Crypto Scam
13.10.2023
Some residents of the city of El Paso in the US state of Texas have received a legitimate-looking letter from scammers impersonating as Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asking to pay cryptocurrencies.
The FBI has warned locals of a crypto scam that convinces victims to send cryptos and other...
Steam Loves Dwarf Fortress So Much It's Confusing The Locals
7.12.2022
Dwarf Fortress’s enormous graphical overhaul, and accompanying Steam release, has seen the 16-year-old game receive triumphant reviews. Currently sporting 4,634 “Overwhelmingly Positive” reviews on Steam, people are delighted. But one person is dubious. Posting to the roguelike game’s discussions...
Power Outages in Russia’s Irkutsk Region Blamed on Home Miners
2.1.2022
Russians mining cryptocurrency in their homes have been blamed for the problems with the electricity supply in Irkutsk. Power outages have become a frequent occurrence in the region which maintains the lowest electricity rates in Russia. Subsidized household energy has turned mining into a source...
El Salvador introduces fuel subsidy of $0.20 per liter to locals who pay in BTC
4.10.2021
El Salvador is looking to bolster adoption of its government-issued Chivo Bitcoin wallet by offering discounts on petrol purchases of $0.20 per liter to consumers who pay using BTC
Senegalese locals left disillusioned by lack of progress on Akon City
6.9.2021
Akon City, the ambitious ideas for a pan-African crypto-powered smart city in Senegal from rapper Akon, has not progressed past the laying of a ceremonial stone in 12 months
New York locals accuse gas-fired mining operation of heating Seneca Lake
6.7.2021
Residents are concerned over the environmental impact of Greenidge’s gas-fired Bitcoin mining plant, asserting that the firm is heating the lake and may be killing marine life
Bitcoiners back social platform to escape shadowbans and demonetization
22.4.2021
Anthony Pompliano and others have backed an alternative content platform that aims to give creators more revenue and freedom from shadowbans and demonetization
New Siberian Bitcoin mining center set to provide 100 jobs to locals
27.10.2020
13.6 acres of cold and barren land in Siberia will be put to good use with the support of international investors
China: Locals Allegedly Laying Cable via Fish Ponds to Steal Oil Well Power for BTC Mining
13.6.2019
Police in China have reportedly gathered evidence of people laying cables via fish ponds to steal oil well power to fuel their bitcoin (BTC) mining
Dark theme in a day
21.5.2018
Marcin Wichary has written a great piece that dives into how he used CSS Variables to create a night mode and high contrast theme in an app. There’s so many neat tricks about how to use CSS Variables (Chris has also looked at theming) as well as how to organize them (Andras Galante has...