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What USD 17,000? Bitcoin Just Smashed USD 18,000
18.11.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) rally keeps accelerating as the price jumped from USD 17,000 to USD 18,000 in less than a day.
The most popular cryptocurrency briefly touched USD 18,020 on 04:00 UTC before correcting lower and then rallying again. At the time of writing (04:24 UTC), BTC trades at USD 18,184 and...
Why Bitcoin's market cap just hit a new record high before the price did
18.11.2020
Despite Bitcoin rallying to post a new all-time high for market cap, the milestone appears to have failed to attract the attention of the mainstream media and general public
US Banks Face a Massive Commercial Real Estate Crisis Looming on the Horizon
17.11.2020
Financial incumbents may face a harsh reality soon, as a commercial real estate crisis has threatened the profits from America’s largest banks. A number of reports show that banks with a large amount of commercial real estate in their portfolios may see a significant fallout in the next...
CSS Background Patterns
17.11.2020
Nice little tool from Jim Raptis: CSS Background Patterns. A bunch of easy-to-customize and copy-and-paste backgrounds that use hard stop CSS gradients to make classy patterns. Not quite as flexible as SVG backgrounds, but just as lightweight.
Like this:
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Speaking of cool...
Binance Discontinues UK Pound Stablecoin Calling It Just an ‘Experiment’
16.11.2020
The exchange is discontinuing its own BGBP stablecoin, an "experiment" that obviously wasn't a success
A Bitcoin whale just shorted $100M BTC — Are big holders expecting a larger drop?
15.11.2020
A Bitcoin whale placed a $100 million short on Nov. 15 after various on-chain data hints at a whale-induced BTC sell-off throughout the past week
Why Bitcoin price just lost $16K in a 'typical' weekend drop
14.11.2020
Despite the weekend, the price of Bitcoin has seen volatility within the past 12 hours as stacked sell orders at $16,500 likely caused the drop
Node isConnected
13.11.2020
Every so often I discover a property in JavaScript objects that I didn’t know existed, oftentimes using another trick to accomplish the same functionality. One such property I just learned about was isConnected, a node property that attached to a context (i.e. document). Here’s how...
DeFi the odds: Total user numbers up 55% in just six weeks
13.11.2020
Decentralized finance users steadily increased by 40% during October, despite many DeFi tokens posting heavy losses for the month
SVGBOX
13.11.2020
I’ve been saying for years that a pretty good icon system is just dropping in icons with inline <svg> where you need them. This is simple to do, offers full design control, has (generally) good performance, and means you aren’t smurfing around with caching and browser support...
How to Work With WordPress Block Patterns
12.11.2020
Just a little post I wrote up over at The Events Calendar blog. The idea is that a set of blocks can be grouped together in WordPress, then registered in a register_block_pattern() function that makes the group available to use as a “block pattern” in any page or post.
Block patterns...
3 reasons Bitcoin price just hit $16,000 for the first time since 2017
12.11.2020
Bitcoin price surged past $16,000 for the first time in nearly three years with BTC's momentum strengthening due to three main factors
Did Ethereum just bottom vs. Bitcoin? This is the last big hurdle before $600
11.11.2020
Traders should be cautious as ETH price is facing big resistance alongside rising Bitcoin dominance
Netlify Background Functions
10.11.2020
As quickly as I can:
AWS Lambda is great: it allows you to run server-side code without really running a server. This is what “serverless” largely means.
Netlify Functions run on AWS Lambda and make them way easier to use. For example, you just chuck some scripts into a folder they...
3 Reasons Bitcoin Has Rallied Over 60% in Just Two Months
10.11.2020
We've all watched bitcoin rally sharply since September. But what's driving the bull market?
Why do some games just... keep selling?
9.11.2020
On and on and Ariston
Ethereum User Spends $9,500 in Fees Sending Just $120 in an Error to Forget
8.11.2020
An Ethereum user mistakenly paid $9,500 in transaction fees to send just $120. The user, identified by their Reddit moniker ‘Proudbitcoiner’, says the transaction “destroyed my life” and is now desperately asking miners to return the money. According to a Nov. 4 post...
DeFi needs real-world adoption, not just disruptive pioneering
7.11.2020
Crypto and DeFi remain mostly a subculture in the world of global finance. What does the industry need to do to achieve real, mass adoption?
Bidirectional scrolling: what’s not to like?
6.11.2020
Some baby bear thinking from Adam Silver.
Too hot:
[On horizontal scrolling, like Netflix] This pattern is accessible, responsive and consistent across screen sizes. And it’s pretty easy to implement.
Too cold:
That’s a lot of pros for a pattern that in reality has some critical...
How to Create a Commenting Engine with Next.js and Sanity
6.11.2020
One of the arguments against the Jamstack approach for building websites is that developing features gets complex and often requires a number of other services. Take commenting, for example. To set up commenting for a Jamstack site, you often need a third-party solution such as Disqus, Facebook,...