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Harsh Laws Make Bitcoin Holders Consider Renunciation or Dual Citizenship

28.12.2019
As digital currencies become a mainstay in society, a great number of governments have enforced strict tax guidelines, severe money transmission rules, and tough regulations. Because of a few nation-states’ harsh rules against cryptos, there are individuals who plan to renounce their...

Asia’s Love Affair With Blockchain Is Blossoming

28.12.2019
Far away from western eyes, Asian blockchain projects are thriving. A vibrant ecosystem of public and permissioned chains has sprung to life in Asia, aided by government and big business endorsement of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Many of these chains are virtually unknown outside of...

Mainstream Media’s Hit Piece on Hitmen Fails Miserably

28.12.2019
Mainstream media is probably one of the worst mediums for factual information because it’s typically filled with ignorance and propaganda. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, darknet markets, and encryption, conventional news outlets publish hit pieces that are beyond absurd. On December...

User Reports Reveal Visa and Mastercard Outages During the Holidays

27.12.2019
Having problems with payments around Christmas can be frustrating, especially for those who leave gift buying till the last minute. With calmer markets this holiday season, the crypto ecosystem has been operating relatively smoothly, with few exceptions. The fiat world, however, saw some glitches...

So Many Color Links

27.12.2019
There's been a run of tools, articles, and resources about color lately. Please allow me to close a few tabs by rounding them up here for your enjoyment. Curated colors in context Happy Hues demonstrates a bunch of color palettes in the context of the site itself. That's a nice way to do...

As FATF Regulations Galvanize, Crypto Mixing Applications Are Targeted

27.12.2019
Since the inception of Bitcoin, governments have tried to keep track of all the transactions taking place on the public blockchain. As the years progressed, authorities have shown a distaste for cryptocurrency mixing applications like Coinjoin. On Dec. 19, a Binance customer couldn’t withdraw...

How Many Websites Should We Build?

27.12.2019
Someone emailed me: What approach to building a site should I take? Build a single responsive website Build a site on a single domain, but detect mobile, and render a separate mobile site Build a separate mobile site on a subdomain It's funny how quickly huge industry-defining conversations...

7 Uses for CSS Custom Properties

27.12.2019
I find all seven of these quite clever and useful. I particularly like using custom properties when you can sneak a variation into a place where you'd normally have to re-declare a whole big chunk of code. .some-element { background-color: hsla( var(--h, 120), var(--s, 50), var(--l...

4 Beijing Regulators Issue New Crypto Activity Warning

27.12.2019
Four financial regulators in China have jointly issued a fresh warning regarding crypto trading activities in Beijing. The notice explains the reason for the warning and lists prohibited crypto activities, which have reportedly been surging as companies ramp up their blockchain promotion. Also...

92000 ETH has been moved

27.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 27 December, 2019 “There's no such thing as a free lunch.” - Milton Friedman In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Ethereum co-founder reportedly selling 90k ETH to U.S. cryptocurrency exchange OKEx launching Bitcoin […] The post...

92000 ETH has been moved

Crypto’s Counterpunch to U.S. Hegemony and Empire

27.12.2019
“The Muslim world should be designing measures to save themselves from the domination of the United States dollar and the American financial regime.” —Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran Also Read: Crypto Confronts Social Justice Warriors Hegemony and Muslim Resistance Hegemony...

Germans Rush to Buy Gold as Draft Bill Threatens to Restrict Purchases

27.12.2019
Reports have emerged depicting long lines in front of a physical gold sales location in Germany, in view of pending legislation which would once again lower the anonymous purchase limit, this time from €10,000 to €2,000. The last drop happened in 2017 when the limit was set...

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Launches Index of Top 50 Blockchain Public Companies

27.12.2019
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange has launched a blockchain index comprising 50 of the largest publicly listed companies with blockchain ventures by market capitalization. Blockchain-related stocks in China have been gaining value since President Xi Jinping openly advocated for the technology. Also read:...

Bitcoin Gained 8.9 Million Percent Over the Last Decade

27.12.2019
2020 is fast approaching and the last decade will be behind us. Throughout the last ten years, the biggest unicorn firms were born like Uber and Airbnb. However, even though Bitcoin isn’t a company, the best investment of the decade belongs to the decentralized cryptocurrency Satoshi created....

Bitmain and Canaan to Reveal 5nm Bitcoin Mining Chips in 2020

27.12.2019
Two of the largest bitcoin mining chip manufacturers have plans to equip their products with 5nm chips in the near future. Just recently, China-based manufacturer Bitmain purportedly produced the world’s first 5nm test-grade bitcoin mining chip and more efficient mining rigs will see mass...

Why do we use .html instead of .htm?

26.12.2019
Interesting question from Andy: Serious question. Why do we use .html instead of .htm? / @adactio @css — Andy Clarke (@Malarkey) December 12, 2019 The most likely answer from the thread: DOS was a massive operating system for PCs for a long time and it had a three-character limit on file...

PHP Templating in Just PHP

26.12.2019
With stuff like template literals in JavaScript and templating languages, like JSX, I've gotten used to wanting to write my HTML templates in one nice chunk and sprinkling in variables wherever I need them. I had a situation where I needed to do that in "raw" PHP the other day, so I'm just...

Japan Hosting World Conference to Discuss Decentralized Financial Governance

26.12.2019
Following the consensus reached at the G20 leaders’ summit on the importance of discussing better governance for the decentralized financial ecosystem, Japan’s top financial regulator is hosting a global blockchain conference to discuss the subject. The regulator is welcoming...

How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree

26.12.2019
One of the more powerful concepts I've stumbled across recently is the idea of abstract syntax trees, or ASTs. If you've ever studied alchemy, you may recall that the whole motivation for alchemists was to discover some way to transform not-gold into gold through scientific or arcane methods. ASTs...