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Never Mind Hodlers, Crypto Needs More Opportunist Investors
20.2.2020
The crypto markets need more investors who come and go and who aren't solely crypto investors, says CoinDesk columnist Jeff Dorman
No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
20.2.2020
Bitcoin's resilience doesn't depend on widely distributed mining power. It just requires self-interested miners, says CoinDesk columnist Hasu
CoinDesk’s New Opinion Section: The Future of the Financial System Is Up for Debate
18.2.2020
Announcing CoinDesk’s new opinion section, a place for discussion on the future of money and all the interesting questions that surround crypto and blockchain as ideas
When Corporations Violate Privacy, They Do Concrete Harm
15.2.2020
There are concrete safety implications to consumer privacy violations, says Lindsey Barrett of Georgetown Law
International Safer Internet Day: Using Blockchain Tech to Secure the Internet
11.2.2020
An Unsafe Internet The Safer Internet Day (February 11) only reminds us that the internet can be a dangerous place: it has little in terms of security features designed to protect the privacy of user data or address the needs of today’s rapidly growing e-commerce industry. Since the internet...
CFTC Asked to Provide Opinion in SEC Case Against Telegram ICO
7.2.2020
A U.S. judge has asked lawyers from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide an opinion in the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Telegram's $1.7 billion token sale
Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager
5.2.2020
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
On my 13 inch macbook, with Dock positioned on the left, the viewport height in Chrome is 786 pixels so images with loading="lazy" that are more than 4x the viewport down the page are eagerly fetched by Chrome...
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Market Microstructures
25.1.2020
Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Market Microstructures
25.1.2020
Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Market Microstructures
25.1.2020
Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure
Elon Musk Reveals His True Opinion on Bitcoin and Crypto
24.1.2020
Elon Musk revealed his stance on crypto, noting that it is a good replacement for cash
This Page is Designed to Last
23.1.2020
Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what gets published on the web disappears. Thankfully, the Internet Archive gets a lot of it. Jeff has seven things that he thinks will help make...
Russia’s New Prime Minister Has an Opinion of Cryptocurrencies
17.1.2020
The Russian Federation has a new prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, with a track record of statements regarding cryptocurrencies and an affection for digitalization. A stated goal of his government will be to turn the country into a digital platform “for the people.” Time will tell...
Myths and Realities: Sentiment Analysis for Crypto Assets
14.12.2019
Jesus Rodriguez, CTO of IntoTheBlock and chief scientist of AI firm Invector Labs, delves into the complications and nuances of crypto sentiment analysis
Weiss Ratings Downgrades EOS to ‘C-‘ Due to Centralization – How Other Coins Measure Up
9.12.2019
Weiss Ratings has downgraded EOS once again, taking its ranking from a B to a C-. The group cites “failure to decentralize,” “misallocation of resources,” and a congested network as reasons for the fall in rank. “Weiss Crypto Ratings model is not based on opinion....
How Many More Birthdays Until Bitcoin Wins?
1.11.2019
On the white paper's 11th anniversary, we face a question: How much longer until bitcoin becomes like Twitter or Linux, something you use every day?
A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer
28.10.2019
The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have...
What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...
Sean Walsh: Cryptocurrencies Can Harness More Human Energy
9.10.2019
Bitcoin scores high in terms of ‘moneyness’ compared to other forms of money as it has some technical advantages and social inertia. In an interview with Bitcoin.com’s Humans of Bitcoin podcast, brilliant contrarian thinker Sean Walsh shared his opinion about cryptocurrencies...
The Rise of the Electric Scooter
12.9.2019
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right?
On an electric scooter, though