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Crypto Long & Short: The Emergence of Prime Brokers Adds Resilience but Also Risk
1.6.2020
Coinbase, BitGo and Genesis all have strong growth trajectories and balance sheets. But with that stability comes a certain degree of centralization
Amid Youtube Censorship, Individuals Flock to Decentralized Video Sharing Apps Like Lbry.tv
31.5.2020
In mid-May, news.Bitcoin.com reported on one of our mining pool videos being censored and banned from the video-sharing platform Youtube. The report had shown how Youtube has been censoring videos for a long time now, and the CEO specifically told the public certain coronavirus films would...
China Passes Law Protecting Cryptocurrency Inheritance
30.5.2020
China has passed the country’s long-awaited civil code which expands the scope of inheritance rights to include cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin. Inherited cryptocurrencies will be protected under the new law. Meanwhile, several Chinese courts have recently ruled that bitcoin and ethereum...
Binance Futures Traders Long BTC and Altcoins, Even as Bitcoin Price Falls
26.5.2020
Despite Bitcoin’s bearish price action, top traders on Binance Futures are aggressively longing cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum
Devising the Cloak of Invisibility in JavaScript
25.5.2020
Steganography. The art of hiding something right under your nose. For as long as humans have been alive, we’ve been trying to hide things — whether it’s our last slice of pizza or the location of a buried treasure. Do you remember the cool invisible lemon ink trick, where we’d write the secret...
Crypto Long & Short: Innovation Cycles, Crypto Venture Funds and Institutional Investors
25.5.2020
With so much attention on institutional involvement in crypto asset markets, we overlook that they are already here through VC investments – less fast-paced, perhaps, but important to keep an eye on for what they reveal about cycles
First Mover: Bitcoin Just Got Easier to Mine, But for How Long?
20.5.2020
Bitcoin's mining "difficulty" just fell 6%, giving small-scale miners a reprieve. But this is only a small dip before an even steeper ascent
First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout
18.5.2020
It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long time. Masonry being that kind of layout where unevenly-sized elements are layed out in ragged rows. Sorta like a typical...
Crypto Long & Short: Mining Derivatives Point to Growing Sophistication
18.5.2020
Noelle Acheson picks apart trends in global interest and trust in crypto asset technology, and revisits the growing financialization of bitcoin mining
Long Squeeze Incoming? 3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Price May Correct Sharply
17.5.2020
Despite Bitcoin price repeatedly failing to push above $10,000, the majority of traders are long, increasing the possibility of a long squeeze
Z nebe nad Afrikou padaly kusy kovu. Byly to trosky čínské rakety Long March 5B
16.5.2020
V pondělí doslova spadl z nebe velký kus čínské rakety Long March 5B. Stal se tak jedním z největších člověkem vyrobených předmětů, který z vesmíru nekontrolovaně dopadl na povrch naší planety. Dle původních předpokladů měly trosky stroje skončit v Atlantském oceánu.
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How Investors Are Presented With Bitcoin: ‘A New Decentralized Monetary Asset, Akin to Gold’
16.5.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is a compelling investment case “for patient, long-term investors” willing to spend the time to understand the top cryptocurrency, a new paper by Paradigm co-founder managing partner Matt Huang notes. The crypto entrepreneur places BTC besides gold, as a go-to store...
CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit
15.5.2020
A surprisingly common response when asking people about things they’d fix about anything in CSS, is to improve the handling of viewport units.
One thing that comes up often is how they relate to scrollbars. For example, if an element is sized to 100vw and stretches edge-to-edge, that’s...
XRP Marches Towards Next Target; Long Term Outlook Seems Bullish
14.5.2020
Admittedly, Ripple is noting a very slow, minimal, and a bit disappointing price growth lately, as compared to Ethereum and Bitcoin. Notably, BTC has again reclaimed the $9200 price range while XRP is struggling to stay above $0.20. Ethereum and Bitcoin, both the topmost crypto coins, have...
Equal Width Columns in CSS Grid are Kinda Weird
14.5.2020
Everything is flexible these days. If you write grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px;, sure, you’d have equal-width columns, but that’s a rare day. What you usually mean is three columns of equal fluid width.
We’ve got fractional units for that, like grid-template-columns:...
How We Future Now – Live With Kathleen Breitman, Caitlin Long and More From Consensus: Distributed
12.5.2020
From gaming and entertainment to the future of the banking industry, live interviews at the Consensus: Distributed virtual summit
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...
Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Protect Individual Privacy?
11.5.2020
Top crypto industry and policy experts debated the privacy ramifications of state-issued virtual currencies during the first day of Consensus
Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin Markets Are Growing Up. Bitcoin Mining Is, Too
11.5.2020
There is a notable shift in the style and profile of bitcoin miners, towards more sophisticated structures and financial engineering
The Men Who Stare at Charts
8.5.2020
The crypto markets are in a permanent state of flux. Meet the traders who know how to read the room