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Bitcoin’s top 100 ‘dustiest’ wallets contain over $88M in BTC
16.7.2024
More than $88 million is held in the top 100 Bitcoin wallets, which are classified as containing a “minuscule amount” of BTC
BloXroute To Reject All OFAC-listed Transactions, Sparks Censorship Debate
19.12.2023
Source: Pixabay BloXroute, a blockchain infrastructure company offering DeFi tools, has announced that its relays will begin declining transactions that include addresses listed under U.S. sanctions. “Effective immediately, all bloXroute relays will reject block bids if they contain OFAC...
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki: ‘We Need a New Financial Architecture Not Controlled by the Dollar or the Euro’
31.7.2023
Isaias Afwerki, president of Eritrea, reinforced the need for building a new economic system away from the traditional centers of power. At the second Russia-Africa Summit, Afwerki told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the current world order, on top of dollar hegemony, was printing money...
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: Former SEC Official William Hinman Received ‘Millions of Dollars’ From Law Firms With a ‘Vested Interest’ in His Speech
19.6.2023
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has blasted the enforcement approach of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the release of the Hinman docs, which contain internal discussions that the institution had before the now famous 2018 speech offered by former SEC Division of Corporation...
Report: Chipper Cash Lays Off More Workers — Crypto Department Still Operational, Says CEO
23.2.2023
The Nigerian fintech, Chipper Cash, recently said it has let go of more employees and that this step has been taken to help the firm contain its operating costs. Although no figure of the number of axed workers was given, one report estimated this to be around 100, or 12.5% of Chipper Cash’s entire...
Bitcoin Suisse Chairman Says EU Won’t Ban Crypto, But It May Seek to Contain It
31.1.2023
Luzius Meisser, chairman of the Swiss crypto firm, weighs in on why the E.U. is likely to try to build a firewall around crypto rather than prohibit its use altogether
Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries
1.12.2022
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 1 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there’s still a couple of …
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Hungary’s Prime Minister Says ‘Europe Has Run out of Energy’ Amid Russia’s Gas Standoff
11.9.2022
Europe is suffering and struggling to contain an energy crisis according to various reports that say the eurozone might have to deal with a cold winter that could lead to energy rationing and blackouts. A recent survey published by the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) shows seven...
Using Grid Named Areas to Visualize (and Reference) Your Layout
26.8.2022
Whenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we’re usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid lines that are automatically indexed with positive and negative line numbers (that is unless we explicitly name them). …
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Financial Stability Risks Grow as War in Europe Complicates Push to Contain Inflation
23.4.2022
Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
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While no systemic event has materialized, the balance of risks has tilted more firmly to the downside....
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Block’s Bitcoin Wallet Will Contain a Fingerprint Sensor for Transactions
11.3.2022
The payment giant’s new wallet will be powered by a rechargeable lithium polymer battery and USB-C port
Spider-Man: No Way Home Torrents May Contain Crypto Malware, Cybersecurity Firm Warns
27.12.2021
Cryptocurrency malware has been found in a torrent download of the new Marvel movie Spider-Man: No Way Home, a cybersecurity firm has warned. “This [crypto] miner adds exclusions to Windows Defender, creates persistence, and spawns a watchdog process to maintain its activity,”...
When is it “Right” to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?
26.11.2021
I’ve got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It’s a good name. You’re telling the browser some particular property (or the scroll-position or content) uh, will, change:
.el {
will-change: opacity;
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Passwords To Billions Of USD In Lost Bitcoin Can Be Recovered, Says This Firm
6.9.2021
contain locked crypto. One of the company’s most recent projects involved recovering USD 250,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a wallet. For a wallet comprising between BTC 0 and 10, or an equivalent value, they charge a 20% commission."We get a really broad spectrum of clients. We have a
Next Gen CSS: @container
11.5.2021
Chrome is experimenting with @container, a property within the CSS Working Group Containment Level 3 spec being championed by Miriam Suzanne of Oddbird, and a group of engineers across the web platform. @container brings us the ability to …
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Elites In Halo: Reach Contain A Gross Secret
20.3.2021
I’ve played a lot of Halo: Reach. In fact, last month I played through the entire game again with my brother via the Master Chief Collection. But I had no idea that inside the playable Elites in the game lurks a somewhat disgusting little secret: Their innards...? Guts? Bones? Hard to tell.Read more
Blockchain Platform to Set up a Tokenization Solution for Argentinean Farmers as Peso Keeps Plummeting
28.1.2021
With Argentineans facing rising inflation to near 40%, solutions appear to contain the impact on national farmers. A business blockchain platform is partnering with a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace to launch a program to tokenize Argentina’s agriculture. More Than 40% of the World’s...
Cyberpunk 2077 Causes Seizure, Doesn’t Contain Warning
8.12.2020
Game Informer associate editor Liana Ruppert reported yesterday that she suffered a grand mal seizure while playing a review copy of Cyberpunk 2077, due to the game’s use of various flashing visual effects. She wrote an article for the site advising players on how to avoid similar experiences...
Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
1.12.2020
I first blogged about responsive data tables in 2011. When responsive web design was first becoming a thing, there were little hurdles like data tables that had to be jumped. The nature of <table> elements are that they have something a minimum width depending on the content they contain...
The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas
11.11.2020
Earlier this year I wrote a bit about autogrowing textareas and inputs. The idea was to make a <textarea> more like a <div> so it expands in height as much as it needs to in order to contain the current value. It’s almost weird there isn’t a simple native solution...