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CMC’s The Capital in Singapore: Top 10 Highlights
13.11.2019
CoinMarketCap’s inaugural conference, The Capital, took place November 12-13 at the Victoria Theatre in Singapore.  In case you weren’t ableContinue Reading
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South Korean Exchange CEO Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
13.11.2019
A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years. They duped thousands of investors, promising them up to 200% return within...
[Updated] Samson Mow: Proof-of-Stake Is a Joke, Backstage at The Capital
13.11.2019
Blockstream’s Samson Mow was fairly quiet during the panel “Proof-of-Work, Halving and the Future of Mining” on day two ofContinue Reading
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[Updated] Samson Mow: Proof-of-Stake Is a Joke, Backstage at The Capital
13.11.2019
Blockstream’s Samson Mow was fairly quiet during the panel “Proof-of-Work, Halving and the Future of Mining” on day two ofContinue Reading
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[Updated] TechCrunch Founder, Michael Arrington at The Capital: Bitcoin Is Money and Nothing Else Is
13.11.2019
Michael Arrington, founder and former editor of TechCrunch, as well as partner at Arrington XRP Capital, spoke to The CapitalContinue Reading
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[Updated] TechCrunch Founder, Michael Arrington at The Capital: Bitcoin Is Money and Nothing Else Is
13.11.2019
Michael Arrington, founder and former editor of TechCrunch, as well as partner at Arrington XRP Capital, spoke to The CapitalContinue Reading
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Walk Like Nakamoto: 7 Anonymous Personalities in the Crypto Space
13.11.2019
In late 2008, an anonymous person named Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween. While Nakamoto is clearly the most famous anonymous crypto moniker, in the early days there were many other mysterious individuals scattered throughout the blockchain environment. Also read:...
Swiss Crypto Bank SEBA Launches With Range of Services
13.11.2019
SEBA Bank is now fully operational with a range of services to bridge the gap between the crypto world and traditional banking. Licensed in Switzerland, the bank’s crypto services include asset management, trading, custody, and financing. Its wallet app, e-banking, and card enable customers...
CoinMarketCap’s The Capital Day 2: Crypto Regulation, User Privacy and New Tech
13.11.2019
Welcome to day two of CoinMarketCap’s first conference, The Capital. The sun is out in Singapore today and the airContinue Reading
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Bitcoin History Part 20: BTC Reaches $1
13.11.2019
It was a milestone that Bitcoin loyalists had long anticipated. Nevertheless, a toast was in order the day BTC reached parity with the US dollar. February 9, 2011 was the historic date, and over on the Bitcointalk forum, talk inevitably turned to what this meant for the nascent cryptocurrency. Also...
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXVII
12.11.2019
Chronicle posts are opportunities for me to round-up things that I haven't gotten a chance to post about yet, rounded up together. It's stuff like podcasts I've had the good fortune of being on, conferences I've been at or are going to be at, happenings at ShopTalk and CodePen, and more.
My talk...
Spend 10 Cryptocurrencies With These Debit Cards
12.11.2019
Debit cards linked to crypto wallets have been a useful payment tool for users who want to be able to spend their cryptocurrencies almost anywhere. Offerings in the segment have been changing over time due to various reasons including regulatory challenges in different markets. Fortunately, though...
Evercoin Launches Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
12.11.2019
At New York Consensus Invest Summit, Evercoin Inc. today announced Evercoin 2, the “safest hardware wallet”. Evercoin 2 provides a wallet and exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies featuring a hardware wallet the size of a house key powered by YubiKey 5ci, the first implementation of...
Venezuela Becomes ‘Dollarized’ as Citizens Seek Refuge in Alternative Solutions
12.11.2019
Venezuela has been suffering from rapid inflation as the purchasing power of the sovereign bolivar has become near worthless. Over the last few weeks, Venezuelans have been dealing with blackouts throughout major cities, making credit card readers useless. Additionally, citizens are dependent...
Making an Audio Waveform Visualizer with Vanilla JavaScript
12.11.2019
As a UI designer, I’m constantly reminded of the value of knowing how to code. I pride myself on thinking of the developers on my team while designing user interfaces. But sometimes, I step on a technical landmine.
A few years ago, as the design director of wsj.com, I was helping to re-design...
When to Use SVG vs. When to Use Canvas
12.11.2019
SVG and canvas are both technologies that can draw stuff in web browsers, so they are worth comparing and understanding when one is more suitable than the other. Even a light understanding of them makes the choice of choosing one over the other pretty clear.
A little flat-color icon? That's...
scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites
12.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.
You can do this...
[Updated] 1 of CMC’s The Capital: Top 5 Things That Happened
12.11.2019
The first day of CoinMarketCap’s inaugural two-day conference, The Capital, fittingly ended with a conversation about the future potential —Continue Reading
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Universal Protocol Alliance to List Mega-Utility Token on Bitcoin.com Exchange
12.11.2019
In addition to listing the Universal Protocol Alliance’s mega-utility token, Bitcoin.com Exchange will also list the group’s stablecoins, as well as support interoperability between the Ethereum protocol and the Simple Ledger protocol. Also Read: Cred Merchant Solutions to Help Unbanked...
How Society Thrived Before Mass Taxation, and How It Still Can
12.11.2019
Many people in the U.S. and elsewhere think of the income tax as some kind of timeless staple of society. The truth is, it was only first instituted in the United States as a permanent fixture in 1913. It stands to ask then, how all the progress that was made prior and the bustling growth...