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Advice for Technical Writing
22.8.2019
In advance of a recent podcast with the incredible technical writer and Smashing Magazine editor-in-chief Rachel Andrew, I gathered up a bunch of thoughts and references on the subject of technical writing. So many smart people have said a lot of smart things over the years that I thought I'd round...
How to Bequeath Your Digital Assets to Your Descendants
20.8.2019
Depending on your belief system, death is either the endgame or the next level. Whatever lies on the other side, your bitcoins are no good there. Just as we entered this world with nothing, we are destined to leave it with nothing. All those years spent stacking sats needn’t be in vain...
The Road of the Bitcoin Family: ‘We’re Spending Bitcoin for 2.5 Years’
18.8.2019
The Bitcoin Family. Source: Instagram, thebitcoinfamily
The Bitcoin Family of five (Didi and Romaine Taihuttu, and their children Joli, Juna and Jessa) are on the road again. But why and how it all started? What have they learned along the way?
This is what Didi told us.
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Twitter Crypto Scammers Continue to Fly Under the Company’s Radar
12.8.2019
Over the last two years, cryptocurrency scamming on social media has been prevalent. In January 2019, it was reported that crypto impersonation scams on Twitter raked in millions in cryptocurrencies from people pretending to be well known blockchain personalities. Now a new form of deception can...
From Spartacus to Satoshi: A Brief History of Economic Rebellion
7.8.2019
Government dominance of human beings via slavery and violent economic oppression is as old as government itself. For thousands and thousands of years kings and rulers, usually held to be “appointed by God,” have used free, non-violent individuals as their tax farm livestock to exploit...
Pre-Register for Bitcoin.com’s New Crypto Exchange to Win Bitcoin Cash Prizes
1.8.2019
Over the last few years, Bitcoin.com has striven to make digital assets more accessible to everyone in the world. In June we launched our peer-to-peer bitcoin cash marketplace Local.Bitcoin.com and this September we’re launching our very own exchange with over 50 trading pairs. Today...
What the Next 4 Years of Ethereum Look Like
31.7.2019
Ethereum celebrated its fourth birthday yesterday. Here's what insiders had to say about the blockchain's next four
Happy Birthday Day, Dear Ethereum – Four Years Since the Best “Altcoin” Was Launched
31.7.2019
Vitalik Buterin‘s beloved child, Ethereum, turns four today. It was launched on 30th July 2015, and within these four years, it has become the second-best choice after Bitcoin. Buterin transformed the way people thought about cryptocurrencies. From being treated merely as a peer-to-peer...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...
Is India Getting Ready for 40 Years of Reverse Gear by Banning Cryptocurrency?
29.7.2019
Cryptocurrency industry, despite in its nascent stage, is roaring like a lion around the world. The blockchain revolution has allured so many countries around which include the world-leading powers as well as the developing ones. Every now and then, newer innovations are taking place in...
Optional Chaining
29.7.2019
For all of the improvements that the JavaScript language has added over the past few years, like the spread operator, default argument values, and arrow functions, there are still a few features I’d love to see implemented. On such feature is optional chaining. Optional chaining allows...
Three Years, Three Times the Growth- What is the Secret of Coinbase Growth?
27.7.2019
Greatness needs passion. But even the greatest passion roots in certain principles. Coinbase, since its launch three years ago, has tripled in size, business, expansion, and so much more? What is its driving force? It started with tens of engineers, for example, three years ago; and now it...
How Government Agencies Make Criminals of Crypto Traders
26.7.2019
A New Jersey man has been indicted this week for converting over $2 million to bitcoin and operating a private exchange business not registered with the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. According to a July 24 press release by the U.S. Attorney’s office, 46-year-old William Green could face...
Amid Severe Price Fluctuations, Pantera Capital CEO Says Bitcoin Will Cross $350,000 in a Couple of Years
25.7.2019
After recovering from a six-month-long losing spree earlier in February this year, Bitcoin has again started to show dreadful signs of fluctuations, which could scare away investors, especially those who witnessed the turmoil of 2018. However, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead thinks otherwise...
Is Bitcoin Money? Revisiting Mises’ Regression Theorem
25.7.2019
Over 100 years after the publication of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises’ “The Theory of Money and Credit,” the ideas outlined therein are still sparking hot debate. Namely, what is known as Mises’ Regression Theorem, which claims that in order for something to be money...
Zdog
24.7.2019
David DeSandro has loads of super cool JavaScript libraries he's created over the years. His latest is Zdog, a "round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG." It's only been about a month since he dropped it (although, like any good library, it's been simmering) and it...
Money and Democracy: How the Elite Manipulated Ledgers and Created a Social Ranking System
22.7.2019
Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of exchange called money to facilitate trade. During this timespan, the evolution of money has evolved into a system of information, a social contract, and a ranking...
Bitcoin Cash Milestones: Delivered Code, Upgrades and Platform Development
20.7.2019
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) platform and protocol development have seen a lot of delivered code and projects over the last two years. The upgrades will help Bitcoin Cash scale to the masses, and many of the added features are protocol developments that are unique to BCH. Also read: Indian Government Breaks...
Revive: A Free Tool that Analyzes Your Traffic and Finds the Content You Should Update
11.7.2019
I started Scotch as a web development tutorial blog. Over the years, I've learned far more than I expected. It was no longer just about web development
‘Google Coin’ Within 2 Years as FANGs Will Go Crypto, Say Winklevoss
11.7.2019
The Winklevoss twins forecast 2021 will see crypto-like offerings from all major tech giants after Facebook