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Coronavirus Bailouts: US Banking Watchdogs Waive Hundreds of Regulations, Red Tape, Financial Oversight
23.3.2020
In 2019, cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses saw more regulation than any year prior. G20 finance ministers, central bank governors, and regulators cracked down hard on the bitcoin industry. However, during the covid-19 scare, U.S. authorities have been dropping regulations on a whim, making...
While You’re Under Quarantine, Check These Sites for Remote Crypto Jobs
22.3.2020
If you are on the lookout for a job in these pressing times, when the coronavirus pandemic has limited public movement and shut down businesses, it’s worth exploring opportunities to work from the relative safety of your home. The number of people doing so globally has been steadily growing...
Minting Basic Income – US Lawmaker Asks Treasury to Issue Two $1 Trillion Coins With No Debt
22.3.2020
The U.S. is now facing the onslaught from the coronavirus outbreak. During the last two weeks, bureaucrats have shut down multiple industries while the Federal Reserve has injected trillions into the hands of private banks. Bipartisan members of Congress have been penning a 2020 stimulus plan,...
Can’t Lock Down Bitcoin: Trump Ponders Halting Stock Trading, Grounding US Passenger Flights
21.3.2020
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and a looming recession, U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are contemplating halting stock markets next week. The White House is currently considering grounding all passenger planes and ordering a nationwide shelter. However, bureaucrats from...
Breaking Down Conspiracy Theories Behind Covid-19 – John McAfee’s Allegations
21.3.2020
Coronavirus has become one of the greatest pandemics the world has seen since the turn of this millennium. Within a few months, the deadly virus has victimized over 200,000 people globally, killing more than 8,000 human beings, in 150+ countries. The virus isn’t showing any signs of slowing. Even...
XRP Price Corrects Down to $0.16 After its Second Bullish Spike
20.3.2020
Ripple (XRP), along with the whole market had hit multiyear lows around a week ago, and by now, the coin has managed to enter into a slight price recovery mode. The coin was as low as 0.11 on March 13, and now the coin has started exploring price ranges above $0.15. Here, the coin has …
Maduro Orders Venezuelan Bank Closures Amid Coronavirus Scare
19.3.2020
In order to combat the coronavirus outbreak in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the entire country to quarantine themselves. With an inflation rate that rises more than 10,000% per year, the country’s citizens have already been dealing with economic turmoil. Maduro...
Pantera-Backed DEX Sparkswap Shuts Down Due to Weak User Base
19.3.2020
In a blog post, the exchange states that it was unable to attract a large enough user base to sustain future operations
Banking Shut Down Drives Crypto Adoption Among Venezuelans
19.3.2020
Venezuela is one of several South American nations to see growing P2P crypto amid strict coronavirus quarantining measures
Bitcoin Faces Another Down Day as Equities Reject Stimulus Efforts
18.3.2020
Bitcoin remains at the mercy of the equity markets, which are struggling to gather upside traction despite the Federal Reserve's massive stimulus package
How to Simulate Long HTTP Requests
17.3.2020
It happens less frequently these days but there are times when we need to accommodate for a HTTP request timing out. The service could be down, under heavy traffic, or just poorly coded, or any host of other issues. Whenever I need to simulate a long HTTP request, I use a bit of PHP...
Stop Using “Dropdown”
16.3.2020
Adrian Roselli notes that it might actually mean:
A <select> menu
An ARIA Listbox, Combobox, Menu, or Disclosure Widget
An input with a <datalist>
An input with autocomplete
A <details><summary> block
An accordion
Flyout navigation
In my own usage, I tend to mean...
Crypto Winter Returns: Breaking Down the Crypto Bulls
16.3.2020
When Bitcoin peaked at nearly $20,000 in December 2017, it was expected that it would come down, but only marginally. Sadly, what followed was equivalent to the global economic crisis of 2008 for the crypto industry. In a matter of months, Bitcoin was bleeding below $3,500 in January 2019 after...
Gold and Bitcoin Markets Tested, While Central Banks Try to Quell Stock Market Rout
13.3.2020
Central banks worldwide have been bracing for the worst, as the global economy has shuddered over the last seven days. On March 11, the Bank of England slashed rates by 50 bps bringing the base rate down to 0.25%. Meanwhile, Wall Street bankers and U.S. President Donald Trump want the Federal...
Down 26%: Bitcoin Sees Worst Sell-Off in 7 Years as Coronavirus Spurs Flight to Safety
12.3.2020
Bitcoin suffered its biggest drop in seven years, as fears over the spreading coronavirus triggered a new wave of selling in everything from stocks and junk bonds to cryptocurrencies
No, CME Did Not Shut Down Bitcoin Derivatives Market
12.3.2020
Source: iStock/StockSeller_ukr
Following an announcement from CME Group yesterday, some might get confused that the major derivatives market would shut down trading in bitcoin (BTC) futures & options, along with trading in other assets. Fortunately, this is not the case.
What CME really said...
Russia Cracks Down on ‘Anonymous Darknet Networks’ Like TON and Tor
12.3.2020
Russia is cracking down on censorship-resistant platforms, with its media watchdog soliciting research on how to disrupt Telegram’s blockchain and Tor
Peter Schiff Takes a Dig at Bitcoin, as the Markets Continue to Crumble Down Amid Global Crisis
11.3.2020
Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff has taken yet another dig at Bitcoin on Tuesday, pinching media house CNBC of not covering the BTC crash enough. He accused that if Bitcoin had been soaring instead of crashing, CNBC would have given it a non-stop coverage. CNBC has not even mentioned #Bitcoin...
Paradigm Labs Shuts Down, Says It Was ‘Too Early’ for DeFi Boom
11.3.2020
Paradigm said it found it difficult "carve a viable niche" the rapidly evolving DeFi space
DeFi Project Backed by Polychain and DragonFly Capital Shuts Down
11.3.2020
DeFi project Paradigm Labs says it has failed to keep step with an “incredibly fluid” decentralized exchange landscape