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Remittance Costs Lower in Q3 World Bank Study Shows – Only Cryptocurrencies Meeting UN Goal
30.10.2020
The latest study by the World Bank shows that it costs 4.98% on average to remit funds to South Asia which makes it the least expensive region while sub-Sahara Africa is the most expensive with an average cost of 8.47%. The quarterly study also finds that it is costlier to remit funds when using...
The CSS Custom Property Toggle Trick
29.10.2020
Back in July 2020, I got an email from James0x57 (I always try to refer to people by their name, but I think I get the sense they prefer to go by screen name) that says:
The entire world of branching conditional logic and bulk feature toggling for custom CSS properties is possible and only exists...
Onchain Data Shows Rising Bitcoin Whale Index Surpassing 4-Year High
27.10.2020
Onchain analytics from the research and analysis firm Glassnode shows that the number of bitcoin whales (addresses with at least 1,000 bitcoins) has surpassed 1,900 clusters. The number of network participants in terms of 1,000 coin whales hasn’t been this high since 2016. Seven-day trailing...
WordPress and Jamstack
26.10.2020
I recently moderated a panel at Netlify’s virtual Jamstack Conf that included Netlify CEO Matt Biilman and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. The whole thing was built up — at least to some — as a “Jamstack vs. WordPress” showdown.
I have lots of thoughts of my own on this...
US Financial Watchdog Fines Bitcoin Mixer Service for $60 Million
20.10.2020
Larry Dean Harmon, founder and operator of early bitcoin mixing services Helix and Coin Ninja, is being fined $60 million by the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) for allegedly violating anti-money laundering rules. According to documents published Oct. 19...
Mt Gox Rehabilitation Plan Delayed Again to December 15
15.10.2020
The submission deadline for the Mt Gox civil rehabilitation plan has been extended once again, this time to December 15. The deadline has been pushed back at least three times before, including in the latest case, where submission was scheduled for October 15. Mt Gox’s rehabilitation trustee...
Some Industry Podcasts
1.10.2020
Clearleft made a 6-episode Season One
It’s called The Clearleft Podcast if you can believe that. It gets into new (at least to me) concepts like Design Ops and Design Sprints, which are loaded terms and need nuanced discussion. It’s really well-edited, pulling in clips from relevant...
Some New Icon Sets
29.9.2020
I’ve bookmarked some icon sets lately, partly because I can never find a nice set when I need to. I figured I’d even go the extra mile here and blog them so I can definitely find them later. Aside from being nice, cohesive, and practical sets of icons, I find it interesting that...
Token Projects to Recover $130M from the Kucoin Hack, Devs Condemned for Centralization
29.9.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing the Kucoin hack as a great number of ERC20 projects have frozen, paused, or reversed their smart contracts after the hack. Estimates say that at least $129 million ERC20 tokens affected are considered “safe” from the hacker’s...
Bithumb Operator Wants At Least USD 430m For Its Stake In Exchange - Report
22.9.2020
One of the biggest crypto exchanges might be sold as South Korean market-leader Bithumb is reportedly looking for a buyer.
Per Herald Kyungjae, undisclosed investment banking sources have told the media outlet that Bithumb operator Bithumb Holdings is actively looking for a way out of the market....
African traders least likely to fall for crypto scams: Chainalysis
17.9.2020
The region's traders are highly aware of scams and avoid them
Ethereum To Keep Its DeFi Throne For At Least 3 Years - Survey
10.9.2020
Talking to "several high-profile decentralized finance [DeFi] projects" about the future of this sector, provider of crypto market data CryptoCompare found that most said "Ethereum (ETH) won’t be replaced as the go-to blockchain network for DeFi" in the next...
At least 3 nations to replace their currency with CBDC by 2030: report
9.9.2020
The digital yuan will not unseat the U.S. dollar — at least not right away
Stroke Text CSS: The Definitive Guide
4.9.2020
Whenever I think of stroked text on the web I think: nope.
There is -webkit-text-stroke in CSS for it, but it places that stroke in the middle of the vector outline of the characters, absolutely ensuring that the character doesn’t look right. Just look at this in Chrome or Safari. Gross....
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of August; Chainlink Up Most, BSV Least
1.9.2020
Was August a good month? Depends on which coin you ask. For many in the wider market, it was an excellent month, yet for many in the top 10 coins by market capitalization, the month ended in red.
August was a month filled with decentralized finance (DeFi) developments, particularly in the yield...
These Two Institutional Investors Allocated At Least 1% To Bitcoin
11.8.2020
Among the 20 recently announced institutional investors that invested in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)'s shares, only two allocated more than 1% of their assets under management (AUM) to these shares in order to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin (BTC), according to calculations...
Expanding the Future (of Dev Tooling) with AI
5.8.2020
Codota wants their tools to (at least!) double developer productivity. My vision is that we can do that not only by getting more developers using these tools, but in expanding where and how these tools learn themselves. The better the tools can *learn from us* what we're doing, the better *we...
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of July; Ethereum Up the Most, Bitcoin Least
3.8.2020
The crypto market seems to have acquired a habit of surprising us near the end of a month - albeit not always positively. July, however, ended up very much positively.
July has seen a mini crypto revival, one may say. After weeks of unusual lack of movement, or better said - volatility, which...
Easy Stock Market Quotes with marketstack (Sponsored)
12.7.2020
The stock market is wild right now, at least in the United States. Between pandemic, political events, and everything else going on, the stock market is one swing after another. There are a host of services that give you stock quotes but I don’t trust them; I feel like they delay information...
Romanian Programmer Admits Conspiring to Create $722M Bitclub Ponzi Scheme
10.7.2020
A Romanian man admitted Thursday to conspiring to engage in wire fraud and selling unregistered securities linked to Bitclub Network, a cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme worth at least $722 million. Silviu Catalin Balaci, 35, a Romanian citizen appeared before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi....