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What to Watch at ETHOnline, This Year’s Devcon
2.10.2020
Ethereum’s annual developer conference, ETHOnline, kicks off Friday afternoon, standing in for the regular Devcon in-person event
Dock Announces Mainnet Launch
30.9.2020
Switzerland. September 30, 2020. Dock is pleased to announce the launch of its much-anticipated blockchain mainnet. The mainnet is the culmination of years of collaboration, hard work, and testing that brings to the market a bespoke credential issuing and verification platform. Dock seeks to solve...
Shoelace 2.0: A Forward-thinking Library of Web Components
29.9.2020
A few years ago, I released a lightweight alternative to Bootstrap affectionately named Shoelace. Shoelace was small and fast because of its minimal design and pure CSS approach to styling. It used CSS custom properties extensively to enable customizations, even when loaded via CDN — something...
Bitcoin’s Big Believers: 6-Digits ‘Inevitable,’ BTC Has a Better Chance of Going to $100K Than Zero
29.9.2020
For a number of years now bitcoiners have predicted that the price of bitcoin will surpass its all-time high from 2017 and many believe it will rise to the $100k or six-digit price range. This week bitcoin enthusiasts discussed the possibility of the crypto asset reaching $100k at great length....
How to Detect the Default Branch in a git Repository
28.9.2020
Over the past few years, many engineering teams have switched their default git branch name from master to a different, potentially less offensive term. I’m all for choosing to name your default branch whatever you’d like, but not having a universal default branch name can complicate...
Kelta Cafes: Building a Robust Workplace for Blockchain Enthusiasts
24.9.2020
Blockchain technology has experienced a lot of growth in the last few years. The immutable peer-to-peer distributed ledger system created by Satoshi Nakamoto was given a little chance to survive at the initial stage. Still, many people are now betting on several blockchain projects. The popularity...
Cointelegraph Consulting survey: Mass DeFi adoption is 3–10 years away
23.9.2020
Cointelegraph Consulting releases some trends and insights featured in their “DeFi Adoption 2020: A Definitive Guide to Entering the Industry.”
Tokenized BTC Crosses $1B Notional: Ethereum Cements Role as Bitcoin’s Main Sidechain
23.9.2020
Years ago when the Bitcoin network started suffering from higher fees and congestion, a number of bitcoiners advocated the use of sidechains in order to relieve the main chain’s duties. However, they didn’t realize that the Ethereum network would solidify its role as Bitcoin’s...
Crooked police chief sentenced to 8 years for dark web shenanigans
22.9.2020
The charges are reminiscent of events that took place during the "Silk Road" saga
Execs Managing $78B in Assets Say Institutional Investors Plan to Allocate More Cryptocurrencies
22.9.2020
New research from the digital currency insurance firm, Evertas, shows that a surveyed group of investors managing roughly $78 billion in collective assets believes that during the next five years, institutional investors will “dramatically” increase their crypto asset holdings. This...
'Expect More Crypto Investment in Next 5 Years' - US, UK Fund Managers
22.9.2020
Clearer regulation and improved liquidity will drive institutional investors to cryptoassets in the years ahead, say British and American fund managers.
These were the findings of a survey conducted by crypto asset insurance company Evertas, reports Institutional Asset Manager.
The firm quizzed...
Bitcoin ATMs Surpass 10,100 Worldwide: Expert Shares Industry Outlook
22.9.2020
The bitcoin ATM industry has reached a milestone as the number of machines installed worldwide has surpassed 10,000 after seven years since the first machine was installed. There are now 10,162 bitcoin ATM locations spread across 71 countries. Number of Bitcoin ATMs Exceeds 10K The number...
Publicly Listed Energy Firm Equinor Exploits Gas Flaring in North Dakota to Mine Bitcoin
21.9.2020
Just recently, the firm Arcane Research recently revealed a number of screenshots from the publicly traded energy firm, Equinor. The pictures show the multinational company leveraging natural gas flaring to power bitcoin mining operations. In recent years, using the unorthodox gas flaring scheme...
Over 40 Bitcoin Forks Are Down More Than 98% Since 2017’s Forking Fiesta
21.9.2020
Since the summer of 2017, more than 44 forks of the Bitcoin network were created and so far many of them have lost considerable value and are near worthless. To-date only a few of the forks that stem from Satoshi’s creation have remained relevant during the last three years. There are three...
UK Mulls Over Negative Interest Rates, US to Keep Near Zero Rates for Years
18.9.2020
The Bank of England is now seriously considering implementing negative interest rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to keep interest rates near zero for years. Some analysts say even the Fed will soon consider negative interest rates. Meanwhile, many expect a boost to the price...
4 Reasons Bitcoin May Hit USD 1-5 Trillion Market Cap in 10 Years
18.9.2020
Despite innovations in mostly Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) stealing much of the attention at the moment, New York-based investment company ARK Invest Management claims that bitcoin (BTC) is “the most compelling monetary asset since gold,” capable of reaching a market capitalization...
Huawei Cloud’s blockchain service just got its first major update in two years
17.9.2020
They’re entering the enterprise blockchain arena as part of a push towards empowering commercial applications
Bitcoin Soft Despite Fed Plan to Keep Rates at Zero For 3 More Years
17.9.2020
Despite the US Federal Reserve (Fed) is planning to keep interest rates at or near 0% for at least another three years, while also keeping the door open for inflation above its stated 2% target, bitcoin (BTC) traders did not seem moved by the somewhat expected announcement.
BTC touched a high...
Fed expects near 0% interest rates for years, potentially boosting BTC's value proposition
16.9.2020
Bitcoin keeps looking better and better each time the U.S. devalues its own currency
Miny.CC – Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Mining Sphere
16.9.2020
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, September 16, 2020. – More than 10 years after the first cryptocurrency was successfully mined, the mining space is more controversial than ever. The process was created to be democratic; to allow any PC with spare computing resources to contribute the surplus to help...