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Let’s Make a Vue-Powered Monthly Calendar
21.8.2020
Have you ever seen a calendar on a webpage and thought, how the heck did they did that? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or even an embedded Google Calendar, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think. Especially when we use...
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
21.8.2020
leading-trim is a suggested new CSS property that lets us remove the extra spacing in every font so that we can more predictably style text. Ethan Wang has written about it — including how Microsoft has advocated for it — and that it’s now part of the Inline Layout Module Level 3 spec.
You’d use...
Crypto Travel Agency Travala to Use Binance Chain for Decentralized Services
21.8.2020
The firm plans to become a fully decentralized online travel agency
To grid or not to grid
20.8.2020
Sarah Higley does accessibility work and finds that “tables and grids are over-represented in accessibility bugs.”
The drum has been banged a million times: don’t use a <table> for layout. But what goes around comes around. What’s the the #1 item in a list...
A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Building the Site
20.8.2020
In the last article, we learned what goes into planning for a community-driven site. We saw just how many considerations are needed to start accepting user submissions, using what I learned from my experience building Style Stage as an example.
Now that we’ve covered planning, let’s get to some...
Korean Tourist Hotspot Mandates Use of COVID-19 Blockchain App
20.8.2020
South Korean tourist island tries to stay open and safe with blockchain technology
Lockdown Life & Darknets: BTC Still the DNM King, Cashaa’s Stolen Coins Sent to Hydra, Cannabis Sales Surge
17.8.2020
During the last six months, the Covid-19 outbreak has caused a lot of disarray in the world and one thing is for sure, the use of darknet markets has surged. While the citizens of the globe have been locked down, cannabis sales have skyrocketed and the dollar value of bitcoin transactions done...
Record Ethereum Network Use and Gas Fees Pose Risk to DeFi Expansion
15.8.2020
Ethereum network use and transaction fees are rising to record highs, will this interfere with DeFi’s current expansion?
Can Belarus Use Crypto to Bypass Sanctions? Experts are Skeptical
15.8.2020
Sanctions could be coming to Belarus. Can the crypto-friendly country beat it with Bitcoin or Ethereum?
LIFETIONCOIN Provides Payment Solutions and Worldwide Prosperity
15.8.2020
What Is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrencies use cryptographic protocols that encrypt sensitive data transfers, to secure their units of exchange. Since they are built on advance mathematics it’s impossible to duplicate or break the currency. In addition to that, identities of cryptocurrency users...
Enterprises Would Use DeFi, if It Weren’t so Public
15.8.2020
For DeFi to go mainstream, it needs to adopt the privacy large enterprises require
Crypto Savings Accounts Are Coming to Fintech Firms That Use Wyre
14.8.2020
Crypto payments startup Wyre is offering white-labeled savings accounts that dole out interest on crypto, the company announced Friday
Could Belarus Use Bitcoin to Beat US-EU Sanctions?
14.8.2020
With much of the international community enraged at the Alexander Lukashenko-led government of Belarus following a controversial recent general election, the threat of a new wave of United States-led economic sanctions against the nation and its leadership has become very real.
The European Union...
Thailand’s Central Bank Eyes DeFi Use Cases for Its Digital Baht
14.8.2020
Thailand’s central bank assesses the chances of bringing centralized and decentralized together
Why Santander Doesn’t Want to Use Ripple for International Payments Yet
13.8.2020
There may be trouble in paradise with one of Ripple’s major partners
305 Venezuelan Municipalities to Collect Tax in Cryptocurrency Petro
13.8.2020
Venezuela’s national tax harmonization agreement has been signed by the council representing 305 municipalities. They have agreed to use the country’s cryptocurrency, the petro, as the unit of account for tax payments. Taxing in Petro The Bolivarian Council of Mayors signed...
This Is Why Santander Hesitates to Use XRP
13.8.2020
Despite being touted as one of Ripple’s “largest and most important customers,” the major Spanish bank Santander is still hesitant in its approach to the Ripple-affiliated XRP token.
Cedric Menager, the head of Santander’s new cross-border payments service One Pay FX, told the Financial Times that...
Bitcoin Users Leery of Tor: 23% of the Network’s Exit Capacity Compromised
13.8.2020
Hackers are stealing bitcoin through the large-scale use of malicious relays on the Tor network according to a newly published research report on the subject. The researcher dubbed “nusenu” said he warned people about the growing problem in December 2019 but instead of improving...
Chapter 2: Browsers
12.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet — with a small team at CERN. He convinces the higher-ups in the organizations to put the web in the public domain so anyone can...
Russia Developing AI System to Monitor Cryptocurrency Transactions — Prototype Already in Use
12.8.2020
Russia is reportedly developing a system using artificial intelligence to track and analyze transactions involving cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, dash, and monero. The system prototype has already been created and is currently being tested. This news followed the signing of crypto regulation...