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Bluehelix Global Expansion – Strategically Cooperates with Japanese Licensed Exchange Xtheta
6.8.2020
“Japanese licensed exchange Xtheta officially announced that it has a strategic partnership with Bluehelix, the leading blockchain financial infrastructure technology service provider, which to provide Xtheta with the underlying blockchain financial technology services to accelerate...
$5.6 Million Double Spent: ETC Team Finally Acknowledges the 51% Attack on Network
6.8.2020
The Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain network lost $5.6 million to one miner following a 51% attack initially thought to be a chain split. During the attack, the offending miner managed to double-spend 807,260 ETC ($5.6 million) after spending 17.5 BTC or $200,000 (at time of writing) to acquire...
Collective #617
6.8.2020
content-visibility * Infinite Scroll without Layout Shifts * Brick * blogit * Understanding Arrow Functions
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TypeScript, Minus TypeScript
6.8.2020
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last several years (and let’s face it, hiding under a rock sometimes feels like the right thing to do), you’ve probably heard of and likely used TypeScript. TypeScript is a syntactical superset of JavaScript that adds — as its name suggests — typing to...
Building Custom Data Importers: What Engineers Need to Know
6.8.2020
Importing data is a common pain-point for engineering teams. Whether its importing CRM data, inventory SKUs, or customer details, importing data into various applications and building a solution for this is a frustrating experience nearly every engineer can relate to. Data import, as a critical...
Square’s Cash App Bitcoin Revenue Surges 600% to $875 Million in Q2, Profit Up 711%
6.8.2020
Square Inc. has reported a significant bitcoin revenue increase in the second quarter. Its Cash App generated $875 million in revenue, a 600% increase from the previous year. In addition, Square’s bitcoin gross profit jumped 711%. Square Cash App’s Bitcoin Revenue Square released...
Match Accented Letters with Regular Expressions
6.8.2020
Regular expressions are used for a variety of tasks but the one I see most often is input validation. Names, dates, numbers…we tend to use regular expressions for everything, even when we probably shouldn’t. The most common syntax for checking alphabetic characters is A-z but what...
Bitcoin P2P Trading Soars in India as New Exchange Launches
6.8.2020
Bitcoin P2P trading volume in India has been growing rapidly, hitting record highs over the past weeks. Meanwhile, a new P2P trading platform has launched in India as the crypto industry awaits the government’s decision on a cryptocurrency law. P2P Trading Volume Soars in India Peer-to-peer...
SEC Looking to Buy a Blockchain Forensics Tool That Analyzes Smart Contracts
6.8.2020
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking for a blockchain forensics tool to help it analyze smart contracts. In a call for bids to software companies on July 30, the regulator said that the tool must be able to “analyze and detail code within blockchains and other...
Could Cryptocurrency Casinos be a Realistic Form of Income for You?
6.8.2020
The history of cryptocurrencies isn’t extensive, but is established enough for millions of people around the world to grasp whatContinue Reading
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Could Cryptocurrency Casinos be a Realistic Form of Income for You?
6.8.2020
The history of cryptocurrencies isn’t extensive, but is established enough for millions of people around the world to grasp whatContinue Reading
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US Congressmen Want IRS to Balance Taxation and Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Space
6.8.2020
A bipartisan quartet of US congressmen wants the IRS taxation policy not to dissuade taxpayers from participating in blockchain token staking. These politicians believe America’s ingenuity can help drive this promising staking technology. The four congressmen are Bill Foster (D) of Illinois...
Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Trading Tops $95 Million as Sub-Saharan Africa Records Set All Time High
6.8.2020
Weekly peer-to-peer bitcoin trading volumes topped $95 million globally with several countries recording new all-time highs for the year. The record trading volumes coincided with the most bullish week for cryptocurrencies with bitcoin (BTC) briefly trading above $12,000. As data from Usefultulips...
Warp SVG Online
6.8.2020
The warping is certainly the cool part here. Some fancy math literally transforms the path data to do the warping. But the UX detail work here is just as nice. Scrolling the page zooms in and out via a transform: scale() on the SVG wrapper (clever!). Likewise, holding the spacebar lets you...
S2F Price Model Suggests Bitcoin Price Hits $100K – Author Claims Model Is Perfectly on Track
6.8.2020
The author of the controversial bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) price model said that at current prices the S2F model is “perfectly on track.” S2F shows the price could hit around $30,000 by the year’s end and by August 2021 prices could be $100,000 per bitcoin. The crypto asset...
Bitfinex Offers $400 Million in Rewards to Get Back 120,000 Stolen Bitcoins
5.8.2020
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is offering rewards of up to $400 million to the hackers who stole almost 120,000 bitcoins from its platform in 2016 as well as anyone putting it in touch with the hackers. Up to $400 Million Reward for the Recovery of Stolen Bitcoins Bitfinex announced on Tuesday...
Inside the Flash Crash & DeFi’s Most Recent All-Time High
5.8.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you an on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’sContinue Reading
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Inside the Flash Crash & DeFi’s Most Recent All-Time High
5.8.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you an on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’sContinue Reading
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Chapter 1: Birth
5.8.2020
Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and stored and transmitted. How it passes from person to person. How the seeds of information become the roots of dramatic change. It is so fundamental...
Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Algorithm Debate Heats Up With Fears of Another Chain Split
5.8.2020
With a touch more than three months left until the next Bitcoin Cash upgrade, crypto proponents have been witnessing a new quarrel rise after last year’s contentious Infrastructure Funding Proposal (IFP). This time around, the tensions derive from the Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA)...