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DTCC Considers DLT Use in Securities Trading With 2 New Studies
19.5.2020
DTCC, the plumber to capital markets’ quadrillion-dollar pipes, is wondering if DLT can boost securities processing
Venezuelans Can Now Use Bitcoin to Pay for Goods at 20,000 PoS Terminals
19.5.2020
Venezuelans will now be able to use bitcoin to pay for goods and services at more than 20,000 point-of-sale (PoS) terminals throughout the struggling South American country. This follows a deal between Panamanian crypto exchange Cryptobuyer and local payments processor Mega Soft to connect some...
18 Months In, Few People Use, Mine or Buy Privacy Coin Grin
18.5.2020
Despite launching with considerable fanfare in early 2019, grin, the first cryptocurrency to test privacy protocol MimbleWimble, is showing no signs of life
Pseudo-elements in the Web Animations API
14.5.2020
To use the Web Animations API (e.g. el.animate()) you need a reference to a DOM element to target. So, how do you use it on pseudo-elements, which don’t really offer a direct reference? Dan Wilson covers a (newish?) part of the API itself:
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Fireblocks Boosts Transaction Speed 800% With Free-to-Use Algorithm
13.5.2020
Fireblocks has developed an 800% faster algorithm for secure MPC transactions and made it free-to-use for custodians and vendors
Using CSS Masks to Create Jagged Edges
12.5.2020
I was working on a project that had this neat jagged edge along the bottom of a banner image.
Looking sharp… in more ways than one.
It’s something that made me think for a second and I learned something in the process! I thought I’d write up how I approached it so you can use it on your...
Austrian Government-Backed Project Will Use Blockchain to Find Waste Heat Spots
12.5.2020
The Austrian government is backing a project that would let citizens submit data about industrial waste heat spots for district heating, receiving tokens as reward
Recent Episodes of ShopTalk Show
12.5.2020
There is a super cool new Podcast block for WordPress Gutenberg you use Jetpack (released in 8.5). I wanted to try it out, so below you’ll see recent episodes from ShopTalk Show. I’d tell you all about the recent episodes, except then this blog post wouldn’t age very well, because...
Dealing With Stale Props and States in React’s Functional Components
12.5.2020
There’s one aspect of JavaScript that always has me pulling my hair: closures. I work with React a lot, and the overlap there is that they can sometimes be the cause of stale props and state. We’ll get into exactly what that means, but the trouble is that the data we use to build our UI can...
Mining Titan BHP to Use Blockchain for Iron Ore Sales to Top Steel Producer
12.5.2020
Multinational mining titan BHP Group expects to complete its first blockchain iron ore transaction with major Chinese steel producer Baosteel in the near future
CSS Animation Timelines: Building a Rube Goldberg Machine
12.5.2020
If you’re going to build a multi-step CSS animation or transition, you have a particular conundrum. The second step needs a delay that is equal to the duration of the first step. And the third step is equal to the duration of the first two steps, plus any delay in between. It gets more...
min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
12.5.2020
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with font-size usage, but they are just functions, so they can be used anywhere you’d use a number, like a length.
Sometimes pretty basic usage...
Is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Ready to Replace Altcoin Use Cases?
10.5.2020
For many, Bitcoin’s (BTC’s) Lightning Network (LN) is viewed as a way for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency to enable faster, cheaper payments. While many altcoins, such as Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC), have specifically focused on low transaction fees for smaller cryptocurrency...
China Telecom: Blockchain Has Significant Use-Cases for 5G
9.5.2020
In a recent interview, China Telecom chairman said that blockchain has high-potential use cases to enhance 5G network services
Bitcoin Suisse Sells 20% Stake to Raise $47 Million: Crypto Valley Broker Aims To Expand Into Banking
8.5.2020
Crypto valley firm Bitcoin Suisse has announced plans to sell a 20% stake in the company. The sale is expected to raise 46 million Swiss francs ($47.38 million). Bitcoin Suisse said it intends to use the money to expand its portfolio to banking services in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, according...
Let’s Take a Deep Dive Into the CSS Contain Property
8.5.2020
Compared to the past, modern browsers have become really efficient at rendering the tangled web of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code a typical webpage provides. It takes a mere milliseconds to render the code we give it into something people can use.
What could we, as front-end developers, do...
3 Reports Look at North Korea’s Lazarus Group, Iran’s Farhad Exchange, and the Crypto Ponzi Futurenet
7.5.2020
On May 4, 2020, the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis published a three-part series covering a crypto Ponzi scheme, North Korea, and Iran’s use of digital currencies like bitcoin. The company’s research papers discuss the Poland-based crypto Ponzi called Futurenet, a hosting...
How to Use Block Variations in WordPress
6.5.2020
WordPress 5.4 was released not so long ago and, along with other improvements and bug fixes, it introduced a feature called Block Variations. I had a chance to use it on one of my recent projects and am so pleasantly surprised with how smart this feature is. I actually think it hasn’t received...
MyCryptoMixer 2020 – The Best Bitcoin Mixer Necessary To Protect User’s Anonymity and Privacy
5.5.2020
Governments and law enforcement agencies have been alerted to the possible illicit use of the pseudonymous Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies ever since the notorious darknet marketplace Silk Road was shut down permanently by FBI, which seized more than 144,000 BTC derived from transactions made...
Survey Shows Many BTC Holders Use Hardware Wallet, Have Backup Keys
4.5.2020
A doctoral candidate posted the results of a survey on Bitcoin security from his thesis to Reddit on April 30