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Cryptocurrency Projects Are Upping Their Privacy Game
4.9.2019
What you do with your digital currency ought to be nobody else’s business. Unfortunately, law enforcement, regulators, blockchain forensics firms and other opponents of civil liberties are constantly seeking to usurp this basic human right. As a result, crypto developers are caught in...
Crypto Lending Platforms Prepare to Assail the Banking System
30.8.2019
The battle lines have been drawn and the troops assembled. On the one side stands the combined might of the banking cartels, centuries of deeply entrenched financial infrastructure supporting them. And on the other side stands a handful of crypto companies armed with little more than a passionate...
Telegram Will Release Code for Its TON Blockchain on Sept. 1
29.8.2019
Telegram is expected to release the code needed to run nodes on its TON blockchain on Sunday, two sources tell CoinDesk. The release will allow developers to test TON nodes in advance of a mainnet launch at the end of October
Maskable Icons: Android Adaptive Icons for Your PWA
29.8.2019
There is a new web feature called maskable icons that is coming soon to Firefox Preview and other web browsers. This new icon format will let your PWAs have their own adaptive icons on Android.
The post Maskable Icons: Android Adaptive Icons for Your PWA appeared first on CSS-Tricks
PR: Bitcoin.com Partners with Resistance – the Next Gen DEX
29.8.2019
Last week, the Resistance team met with Bitcoin.com CEO Stefan Rust, and other members of the Bitcoin.com organization, to discuss the terms of a partnership. The meeting was a great success and a strategic partnership agreement was drawn up and signed the same day.
The post PR: Bitcoin.com...
Crypto Salaries Gain Regulatory Recognition Around the World
29.8.2019
Salaries paid in decentralized digital coins have become a norm across the crypto industry, but there’s really no reason why cryptocurrencies can’t be used for remuneration by businesses in other sectors as well. In many jurisdictions that should be legal even in the absence...
Creating a Maintainable Icon System with Sass
28.8.2019
One of my favorite ways of adding icons to a site is by including them as data URL background images to pseudo-elements (e.g. ::after) in my CSS. This technique offers several advantages:
They don't require any additional HTTP requests other than the CSS file.
Using the background-size property...
Bitcoin History Part 16: The First Mt. Gox Hack
25.8.2019
No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however, for it set in motion a string of attacks on other bitcoin platforms that began the very next day. By the time the dust...
Navbar Nudging on @keyframers
22.8.2019
I got to be the featured guest over on The Keyframers the other day. We looked at a Dribbble shot by Björgvin Pétur Sigurjónsson and then slowly built it, taking some purposeful detours along the way to discuss various tech.
We start by considering doing it entirely in CSS, then go for some light...
New Flexa Tech Will Let You Spend Bitcoin From Other Apps Too
21.8.2019
Mobile wallets and other apps will soon be able to plug into Flexa's payment rails and offer crypto payments to retailers
Other Ways to SPAs
21.8.2019
That rhymed lolz.
I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It's a rather simple premise:
Build a server-rendered site.
Turbolinks intercepts clicks on same-origin links.
It uses AJAX for the HTML of the new page and replaces the current page...
PR: Kinesis Partners With Hardware Wallet Provider CoolbitX
21.8.2019
Kinesis is proud to announce a partnership with CoolBitX Technology, the developers of the world’s first credit card-sized hardware wallet, the CoolWallet S. This partnership will enable Kinesis digital currencies, KAU (1-gram gold) and KAG (1-ounce silver), along with the Kinesis Velocity Token...
Getting Netlify Large Media Going
20.8.2019
I just did this the other day so I figured I'd blog it up. There is a thing called Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Here's the entire point of it: it keeps large files out of your repo directly. Say you have 500MB of images on your site and they kinda need to be in the repo so you can work with...
US Secretary of State Wants to Regulate BTC Like Other E-Transactions
20.8.2019
U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo believes that Bitcoin should be regulated the same way as other electronic financial transactions
How to Bequeath Your Digital Assets to Your Descendants
20.8.2019
Depending on your belief system, death is either the endgame or the next level. Whatever lies on the other side, your bitcoins are no good there. Just as we entered this world with nothing, we are destined to leave it with nothing. All those years spent stacking sats needn’t be in vain...
Win BCH with Bitcoin.com’s Cash Games Stars Leaderboard
19.8.2019
There’s a new promotion happening for Bitcoin.com Cash Games, with new winners each week, and first place taking home $200 in bitcoin cash. It can be said that crypto and gaming are made for each other, thanks to low fees, easy access, and privacy. Now things just got even better, with...
Steemit to Automate Development Funding With New DAO
15.8.2019
The blockchain project that focuses on monetizing social media sites is launching a DAO in its coming hard fork upgrade
Meet FumbleChain, the Deliberately Flawed Blockchain
14.8.2019
There's a new blockchain for developers to break at will. The "capture the flag" project from Kudelski Security is meant to educate
PIVX, Possibly Other PoS Chains Vulnerable to Bug, Attackers Profit
13.8.2019
Private transactions cryptocurrency PIVX is vulnerable to a bug allowing the attacker to obtain unfairly high staking rewards
PR: Decentralized Recurring Crypto Payments System Launched by Monarch Blockchain
13.8.2019
Monarch, the decentralized wallet and suite of crypto services, has launched the first decentralized recurring payments system Until now, there’s been no way to automatically pay merchants in crypto on a recurring basis due to the limits of blockchain-based transactions. To solve this, Monarch...