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Finoa and Dapper Labs Announce Exclusive Partnership To Bring Institutional-Grade Custody To Flow Ecosystem Investors
20.10.2020
Berlin, October 20, 2020: Finoa, one of the leading digital asset custody and financial servicing platforms in Europe, and Dapper Labs, the company known for creating CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, announces that Finoa has been exclusively selected as one of top custody providers for FLOW and...
cookieStore: Async Cookie API
20.10.2020
One pattern in the JavaScript API world that web development veterans will notice is that we’ve been creating new methods to accomplish what older, grosser APIs once achieved. XMLHttpRequest became the fetch API, some APIs like Battery became async, and there are dozens of other examples....
Digital Ruble: Russia Unveils Plans to Test Central Bank Digital Currency
20.10.2020
As China is actively testing its digital yuan, Russia is now planning to build and test a central bank digital currency, the digital ruble. Meanwhile, the Bank of Russia has proposed limiting the amount of bitcoin retail investors can buy. Russia’s Central Bank Plans Digital Ruble The central...
Macro Investor Dan Tapiero Says Crypto Adoption Slow: Emerging Economies Ahead of Developed States
20.10.2020
Bitcoin and gold holder Dan Tapiero, says it is still early to talk of widespread crypto adoption as the proportion of users relative to the rest of the population remains low. Tapiero makes the remarks while referring to a study, which places Nigeria at top of the list of countries with...
An Ethereum VR Game Featuring Atari and Care Bears Sells Plots of Virtual Land for $76K
20.10.2020
A great number of Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been selling on various marketplaces this year creating tens of thousands of dollars in NFT sales. One particular platform called The Sandbox has been selling virtual land parcels for thousands of dollars worth of ether. The Sandbox is a virtual...
The failed promise of Web Components
20.10.2020
Lea has some words:
Perusing the components on webcomponents.org fills me with anxiety, and I’m perfectly comfortable writing JS — I write JS for a living! What hope do those who can’t write JS have? Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of...
Our Best Posts on Web Components
19.10.2020
A grouping of hand-selected posts from our site about Web Components. We've published a very useful article series from Caleb Williams, so that's here, but also sprinkled in some other informational and link posts on the subject.
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Monetary Stability: The IMF and Fed Chair Jerome Powell Discuss Digital Currency Implications
19.10.2020
On Monday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report on crypto assets like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and global stablecoins (GSCs). Moreover, the IMF also hosted a virtual panel that discussed digital currencies and cross-border payments with the Federal Reserve Chair...
Comparing Styling Methods in 2020
19.10.2020
Over on Smashing, Adebiyi Adedotun Lukman covers all these styling methods. It’s in the context of Next.js, which is somewhat important as Next.js has some specific ways you work with these tools, is React and, thus, is a components-based architecture. But the styling methods talked about...
Bitcoin Bar ‘Room 77’ Shuts Down
19.10.2020
Room 77, the German bar and restaurant that claims to be the first retail outfit in the world to accept bitcoin payments, has shut down. Cypherpunk Holdings chief economist Jon Matonis broke the news on Twitter. Bar owner Jorg Platzer later confirmed it on Reddit. “Room 77 is closing...
Focus management and inert
19.10.2020
Many forms of assistive technology use keyboard navigation to understand and take action on screen content. One way of navigating is via the Tab key. You may already be familiar with this way of navigating if you use it to quickly jump from input to input on a form without having to reach for your...
Peter Schiff’s Euro Pacific Bank Under Investigation by Tax Authorities in 5 Countries
19.10.2020
Euro Pacific Bank, founded by gold bug and bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff, is reportedly under investigation by the tax authorities of five countries. The bank’s customers allegedly include several tax fraud masterminds and a Russian syndicate described by the FBI as the world’s worst...
Collective #628
19.10.2020
The State of CSS Survey * Filmstrip * Webpack 5 Headache * CSS Background Patterns
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How to Prevent Pasting into an Input
19.10.2020
Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn’t allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it’s something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It’s as easy as you’d...
Cloudbet Unveils Betting With Gold in Gaming World First
19.10.2020
Cloudbet, the pioneering crypto casino and sportsbook, has added Pax Gold to its platform, making history by allowing players to bet online with gold for the first time ever. The integration of gold betting on a crypto-gaming platform marks a unique milestone in the evolution of tokenisation...
Implementing WebGL Powered Scroll Animations
19.10.2020
Learn some fun WebGL by reconstructing the beautiful scroll animations from Robin Noguier's portfolio.
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Rare Batman NFT Digital Art Collection Sells for Record 540 Ether
19.10.2020
A five-piece collection of Batman digital art has sold for a combined 540.86 ether, or about $202,000, on Makersplace, a record price for non-fungible crypto artwork. The rare artwork is a collection of animations or PNG files of the Dark Knight. It was created by DC comic artist José Delbo...
Filecoin Miners Start a Strike – FIL Validators Claim the Project’s Economic Model Is Not Working
19.10.2020
The Filecoin project has surely seen a lot of hype but during the last few weeks before the launch, the cooperative digital storage crypto project has been criticized a great deal. This weekend a few Filecoin miners have been on strike and claim the economic model is not working out for them. Just...
API proti epidemii – eRouška a další
19.10.2020
Zastavit epidemii? I na to je tu aplikace. S eRouškou jste se nejspíše už setkali. Jde o projekt, který umožňuje bleskurychle a anonymně upozornit na možnou nákazu COVID-19, a tím zpomalit či zastavit šíření epidemie. Jak přesně funguje? A co je potřeba k tomu si jednu takovou aplikaci...
The Great Financial Reset: IMF Managing Director Calls for a ‘New Bretton Woods Moment’
19.10.2020
As the global economy shudders from the disastrous effects of central planning, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director in Washington, DC, Kristalina Georgieva is calling for a “new Bretton Woods moment.” Georgieva spoke about the juncture on October 15, and she stressed...