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Market Outlook: Crypto Whale Tales and China’s Blockchain Hype

7.11.2019
During our last market outlook, cryptocurrency prices had found new foundations after the massive rally on Friday, October 25. Since then digital currency prices have been meandering roughly in the same positions after coins like BTC failed to break upper resistance on various occasions. Also read:...

Query JSON documents in the Terminal with GROQ

7.11.2019
JSON documents are everywhere today, but they are rarely structured the way you want them to be. They often include too much data, have weirdly named fields, or place the data in unnecessary nested objects. Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) is a query language (like SQL, but different) which...

Optimizing Images for Users with Slow Network Speeds

7.11.2019
For every website, page load time is a critical factor that can make or break the business. Thanks to the better user experience that comes with a fast-loading webpage, those who focus on page load optimization enjoy better conversion rates, better SEO, better retention, and lower bounce rates. And...

Turkey Becomes the Latest Nation to Work on Digital Fiat

7.11.2019
Trade wars, sanctions, fear from private and decentralized cryptocurrencies. Regardless of the motive, a number of governments have recently taken the path of creating their own digital money. Turkey has become the latest country to announce plans for the issue of a “blockchain-based”...

Bitcoin History Part 19: Wikileaks and the Hornet’s Nest

7.11.2019
“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.” With those 13 words, Satoshi Nakamoto stepped into oblivion, leaving a blizzard of unanswered questions that would enshroud his disappearance. That ominous message was to prove his penultimate forum...

Hong Kong Now Offers Opt-In Regulation to Crypto Exchanges

7.11.2019
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has established a new regulatory framework that allows crypto exchanges to opt-in to be licensed and regulated. Starting Wednesday, centralized trading platforms can apply for a license, providing they meet certain requirements including adequate...

Meet Flowee the Hub: A Feature-Rich Bitcoin Cash Validator

7.11.2019
Bitcoin Cash development has been growing wildly over the last year between third party services and infrastructure. Since the inception of BCH, there’s been a number of full node clients that not only distribute important binary data but offer a variety of different features as well....

Kim Dotcom Token Sale Postponed Over ‘Regulatory Uncertainty’

6.11.2019
In 2017, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload, revealed a similar service called K.im that planned to give anyone the ability to upload files, documents, code, videos, and music files and get paid in crypto for their work. Since then, Dotcom’s team...

Some Things You Oughta Know When Working with Viewport Units

6.11.2019
David Chanin has a quickie article summarizing a problem with setting an element's height to 100vh in mobile browsers and then also positioning something on the bottom of that. Summarized in this graphic: The trouble is that Chrome isn't taking the address bar (browser chrome) into account when...

Conceal and Reveal: The Evolution of Privacy Coin Technology

6.11.2019
Privacy can assume many forms and occur on many levels. The technologies that blockchain architects originally envisioned for privacy coins are now being utilized by an array of crypto stakeholders, from enterprises to exchanges. What began as a means of transacting anonymously has spawned...

Ethereum Bitcoin bridge

6.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 6 November, 2019 Do it “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw Today's newsletter is sponsored by: […] The post Ethereum Bitcoin bridge...

China Removes Bitcoin Mining From Unwanted Industries List

6.11.2019
Inspired by its new fascination with blockchain, China now seems to have changed its mind about cryptocurrency mining. The latest version of a national macroeconomic plan indicates that the government in Beijing has given up intentions to suppress the bitcoin mining industry, in which Chinese...

What is super() in JavaScript?

6.11.2019
What's happening when you see some JavaScript that calls super()?.In a child class, you use super() to call its parent’s constructor and super.<methodName> to access its parent’s methods. This article will assume at least a little familiarity with the concepts of constructors and child...

Netlify CMS Open Authoring

6.11.2019
I like the term "Git-backed CMS." That term works for an emerging style of CMS that looks and behaves much like any other CMS, with a fascinating twist: it doesn't actually store any data for you. These CMSs are connected to a Git repo where the data lives in flat files (e.g. Markdown). You teach...

Video: Bitcoin Cash Lets You Buy Equity Over the Counter at a Bar

6.11.2019
With all the talk about investing in digital assets new people to the scene might not know that cryptocurrency is still used being used as peer-to-peer electronic cash as it was intended. The latest video from Bitcoin.com shows how BCH is used to buy anything from drinks at the bar to equity in...

JavaScript waitForTime

6.11.2019
I write a lot of tests for new features within Firefox DevTools. We have hundreds of “mochitests” which open the browser and perform synthetic actions like clicking, typing, and other user actions. I’ve previously written about waitForever which essentially halts following actions...

Blockchain to revolutionize the future of warfare

6.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 5 November, 2019 Overcome “The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.” – Woodrow Wilson […] The post Blockchain to revolutionize the future...

Blockchain to revolutionize the future of warfare

Tokens.net Seals Partnership With Bitcoin.com as an Official SLP Partner

6.11.2019
Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) is a protocol for token creation on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) chain, promoting tokenization of assets in a simple and effective way. The Simple Ledger Protocol provides electronic wallets, block explorers, social media bots, token faucets and back-end infrastructure,...

Chinese Communist Party Reportedly Filling Roles at Top Exchange Huobi

6.11.2019
A source has reported to news.Bitcoin.com that the Chinese government is attempting to directly manage the crypto exchange industry in the country. According to the source, this could lead to frozen assets for U.S. account holders and others. Notably, Huobi Global’s website has announced that...