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Bitcoin News Roundup for Aug. 5, 2020
5.8.2020
With BTC pushing towards $12,000 and gold at record highs, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your crypto news roundup!
Orchid: Bringing Decentralization to VPNs
5.8.2020
Whenever we browse the web, read news online, or purchase a new pair of glasses from an e-commerce store, we leave traces. These traces sometimes show us content that actually provides us with value, but more often the information we leave is used in concerning ways with scandals like Cambridge...
Genesis Reports Q2 Crypto Loans Spiked 118% to $1.4 Billion Amid Rising Yield Farming Interest
5.8.2020
Genesis Capital said Tuesday that its total number of loans outstanding more than doubled to $1.4 billion for the second quarter to June, up from $649 million three months earlier. The crypto lender, which targets institutional investors and wealthy individuals, added over $2.2 billion in...
Magnetic Buttons
5.8.2020
A small set of magnetic buttons with some fun hover animations.
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Social Engineering: A Plague on Crypto and Twitter, Unlikely to Stop
5.8.2020
The SIM swapping community entered the spotlight after helping the Twitter hacker breach the social media platform, but these threat actors have been going after the crypto community for years
Ripple Says Over-The-Counter XRP Sales Soared 1,700% to $33 Million in Q2
5.8.2020
Ripple has reported that over-the-counter sales of its XRP digital currency soared 1,760% to $32.55 million during the second quarter of this year. That figure compares with sales of $1.75 million posted the previous quarter, according to an earnings release published August 3. Ripple said...
Crypto Derivatives Set New Records, ETH Futures Set All-Time Highs, CME Open Interest Spikes
5.8.2020
Digital currency derivatives have been on fire during the last two weeks as ethereum futures volumes touched an all-time high on Sunday. The popular derivatives trading platform Deribit saw 1.9 million ETH contracts traded and CME Group is now the third-largest exchange in terms of bitcoin futures...
Flooding Threatens China’s Bitcoin Miners, Chinese Billionaire Says ‘Three Gorges Dam Collapse Imminent’
5.8.2020
This week cryptocurrency enthusiasts are still focused on the severe flooding in China during the 2020 monsoon season. The flooding has already displaced millions of Chinese citizens and skeptics are concerned about the vast number of bitcoin miners located in the Sichuan province. The landlocked...
The Cicada Principle, revisited with CSS variables
5.8.2020
Lea Verou digging up the CSS trickery classic and applying it to clip the backgrounds of some code blocks:
The main idea is simple: You write your main rule using CSS variables, and then use :nth-of-*() rules to set these variables to something different every N items. If you use enough...
South African Bitcoin Investment Company Faces Fresh Scam Allegations
4.8.2020
FX Choice, a forex and crypto trading company, is making new allegations that South African bitcoin investment company, Mirror Trading International (MTI) is a multi-level marketing scam. The company says it uncovered this after researching into MTI, a firm that claims to have “118,027...
CoinDesk Monthly Review, July 2020
4.8.2020
In the opening weeks of July, it looked like gold would surpass bitcoin for monthly returns, as it reached an all-time high, a frustrating state of affairs for those who believe the current macro situation should be a “perfect storm” for bitcoin’s “gold 2.0” narrative. That was before bitcoin shot...
Bitcoin News Roundup for August 4, 2020
4.8.2020
With investment opportunities in traditional markets drying up, bitcoin futures are drawing record interest. CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your bitcoin news roundup!
Jetpack CRM
4.8.2020
About a year ago, Automattic bought up Zero BS CRM. The thinking at the time was that it could be rebranded into the Jetpack suite and, well, that happened.
CRM meaning “Customer Relationship Management” if you’re like me and this is a little outside your sphere of everyday...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #9
4.8.2020
A fresh set of inspirational UI interactions and animations from the past couple of weeks.
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The 2020 Rainy Season Is Tougher Than Ever for China’s Bitcoin Miners
4.8.2020
Chinese bitcoin miners are usually happy this time of year because the monsoon season brings excessive rain and thus cheap hydro electricity. But this year has proved to be tougher than ever
[článek] Nominace do ankety Křišťálová Lupa 2020 jsou v polovině. Kdo vás letos zaujal?
4.8.2020
[1 minuta čtení] Dostaňte svou nominací do hlavního hlasování nejlepší internetové počiny za uplynulý rok. První fáze ankety Křišťálová Lupa – Cena českého Internetu se přehupuje do druhé půlky. Do 20. srpna máte možnost podílet se na finální podobě letošního hlasování. Stačí vyplnit formulář...
European Bitcoin Exchange Hacked for $1.4 Million, Claims It Cannot Afford to Repay Users
4.8.2020
2gether, a Spanish cryptocurrency trading platform, has been hacked for about $1.4 million and company executives claim that they do not have the money to repay customers. Chief executive officer Ramon Ferraz Estrada said over the course of several tweets on Monday that the breach of July...
Ripple Q2 2020 Report: XRP Sales Increased 19-Fold
4.8.2020
The XRP Markets Report shows Ripplenet’s On-Demand Liquidity network experienced 11x growth compared to 2019, while XRP sales surged in Q2
Bitcoin’s 10% Drop Shrugged Off – Traders Expect More Big Dips On the Way Up
4.8.2020
Bitcoin investors are shrugging off the recent drop in value that saw a loss of over 10.9% on Sunday. A number of speculators believe the price is still very bullish but expect some more big dips along the way. Meanwhile, optimism has been cushioned as onchain statistics show that exchange...
Total Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $4 Billion, ETH Up Over 70% Last 30-Days
3.8.2020
Statistics show that the decentralized finance (defi) economy has grown massively this year as the total value locked (TVL) in defi recently surpassed $4 billion. Between dex platforms, derivatives, stablecoins, lending, and non-fungible asset creation the second quarter of 2020 has propelled...