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31.3.2020
Laura Kalbag wrote How to read RSS in 2020. This would be a nice place to send someone curious about RSS: what it is, what it’s for, and how you can start using it as a reader. I like this callout, too:
Sometimes the content is just an excerpt, encouraging you to read the rest of the content...
AI Meme Content Creators Benefit From New DeFi Revenue Model
27.3.2020
New DeFi revenue model is allowing Alethea AI users to support their favorite AI-generated meme creators
Geopolitical Crisis May Benefit Oil, Gold and CBDCs, Not Bitcoin
26.3.2020
Demand for gold is skyrocketing and the clamor for scarce assets in a remote-first world was precisely where bitcoin was supposed to shine. But it's complicated
Major Securities Firm Gives Its Shareholders Bitcoin Benefits
23.3.2020
Japan’s Monex Group has become the latest financial company to offer its shareholders cryptocurrency benefits – and will become the first major securities firm to give out end-of-year bitcoin (BTC) benefits.
Per an official announcement, Monex – one of the country’s biggest securities companies...
Monex Grants Small Amount of Bitcoin as Year-End Shareholder Benefit
23.3.2020
Monex Group, the financial services firm that owns crypto exchange Coincheck, plans to give Bitcoin as a shareholder year-end benefit for 2019
The Government Can’t Stand Decentralized Innovations Like Bitcoin, so It Tries to Ruin Them
10.3.2020
Feeding the homeless, affordable medicine, an easy-to-use gas can design, starting a small business to meet the needs of one’s community — borderless, permissionless P2P electronic payments. These are all simple, practical activities and tools that can be leveraged in decentralized...
How Elizabeth Warren’s Beef With Facebook Could Benefit Bitcoin
3.3.2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is crusading against big banks as one of her core platforms for the 2020 presidential election, but it’s her social media policies that may have the most direct impact on bitcoiners
US Charges North Korea-Linked Chinese Nationals for Laundering Over $100 Million in Stolen Cryptocurrency
3.3.2020
The U.S. government has charged two Chinese nationals involved in laundering stolen cryptocurrency worth $100 million from an exchange allegedly for the benefit of North Korea. They are linked to the U.S.-designated North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group. A total of 113 cryptocurrency accounts...
Bitcoin’s Potential to Benefit the African-American Community
24.2.2020
Cryptocurrency is rapidly becoming accepted by more people in the United States. Will African-Americans be the next group to benefit?
Blockstack Releases Annual Public Benefit Report Describing 2019 Achievements
20.2.2020
Taking pride in being a highly acclaimed open-source decentralized computing platform, Blockstack has released the Blockstack PBC annual public benefit report for its wide customer base to review its accomplishments. The report highlights the details about the working pedagogies followed by...
Government Think Tank Niti Aayog Identifies Key Blockchain Use Cases for India
4.2.2020
The policy think tank for the government of India, Niti Aayog, has published a strategy document identifying a number of key areas blockchain technology can significantly benefit the country. “By empowering citizens through features of transparency, decentralization and accountability...
Financial Firm SBI Holdings to Offer XRP Cryptocurrency as Shareholders’ Benefit
31.1.2020
Japan's crypto-friendly financial firm SBI Holdings is to give shareholders the option to receive the XRP cryptocurrency as a benefit. They can alternatively accept health supplements
Woodworking SVG (and Other Real Life Encounters)
27.1.2020
Eric Meyer does his woodworking math in SVG.
I’ve been hand-coding SVG schematics to figure out how thing should go together, and as a by-product, guide me in both material buying and wood cutting.
This might sound hugely bespoke and artisanally overdone, but they’re not that complicated, and...
How Travel Industry Can Benefit From Blockchain Technology
22.12.2019
Recently, blockchain technology has produced significant interest in several fields and business sectors. This is likely because to a great extent it can change how data or information is stored and used for enhancing security and transparency and also by improving transactions. This technology...
Can Bitcoin Benefit From New ‘Impossible to Crack’ Encryption Chips?
21.12.2019
Researchers claim to have developed a chip that enables unbreakable cryptography
Apple nechává své zaměstnance zdarma testovat DNA. Je to nový firemní benefit
19.12.2019
Apple si své zaměstnance hýčká po všech směrech, což se ukázalo i na stavbě nového Apple Parku, který má vyhrazenou i speciální obří budovu pouze pro sportovní účely, masáže a další služby. Samozřejmostí je obří restaurace zaměřená na všechny druhy jídla a pití, speciální koncerty se slavnými
Emcee Tips for a Conference or Meetup
21.11.2019
There are some great resources out there to help conference speakers give better talks, but fewer for people who are preparing to take on the role of emcee at meetup or conference.
I've been fortunate enough to emcee conferences more than 20 times now, most recently JAMstack_conf which I help...
India Eyes Cryptos to Benefit from its Potential
16.11.2019
Indian investors may get an interesting option to fetch healthy returns within a few years as the country may see the dawn of cryptocurrencies in the region. However, the fastest growing economy is yet to open the doors for digital coins and has not given any such sign. Despite the current negative...
UAE Accepts Crypto Regulation, Blockchain Projects Stand to Benefit
27.10.2019
As the SCA in the UAE moves to regulate crypto-assets, which initiatives will benefit?
Stop Animations During Window Resizing
14.10.2019
Say you have page that has a bunch of transitions and animations on all sorts of elements. Some of them get triggered when the window is resized because they have to do with size of the page or position or padding or something. It doesn't really matter what it is, the fact that the transition...