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Why Are Tezos, Lisk, Binance Coin Beating Bitcoin so far in 2020?
10.2.2020
Altcoins like Tezos, Binance Coin and Lisk have produced triple-digit rallies in 2020 as Bitcoin struggles to stay above $10K
Why Cypherpunk Witches Love Bitcoin
10.2.2020
Cryptocurrency lets modern-day witches transact beyond the grasp of restrictive e-commerce platforms
Collective #588
10.2.2020
Baretest * Demystifying Browsers * Good First Issue * Why Web Browsers Are FREE * DotMatrx.js
Collective #588 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
What Are Altcoins and Why Are There Over 5,000 of Them?
10.2.2020
According to crypto market capitalization aggregators, there are more than 5,000 cryptocurrencies in existence today and over 20,000 different types of markets. BTC is the oldest and most known digital asset and most everything else has been typically referred to as an “altcoin.”...
VanEck Report Illustrates Why Institutions Should Hold Bitcoin
9.2.2020
Institutional investors should allocate a small percentage of their capital into Bitcoin, according to investment management firm VanEck
”Decentralized Networks a Powerful Phenomenon” – Why the SEC Commissioner Proposes Time-Limited Grace Period for Tokens
9.2.2020
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce has formally proposed a grace period of three years for tokens. Project developers would be exempt from the federal securities laws during that time, provided that they meet certain conditions. After that, they must determine...
Why We Need a Federal Privacy Law
8.2.2020
Mutale Nkonde, a Harvard researcher, argues the US should pass a privacy law modeled on California's new CCPA
Why DeFi’s Billion-Dollar Milestone Matters
7.2.2020
The DeFi market hitting $1 billion in locked crypto is something even the most fervent ethereum skeptics would have a tough time dismissing as meaningless
Overwriting Satoshi: Kraken Exec Says Bitcoin Wasn’t Built for Payments, Isn’t Peer-to-Peer
6.2.2020
As Director of Business Development for popular crypto exchange Kraken, when Dan Held speaks, people listen. As such, his recent 46-tweet diatribe on why the “payments narrative” for bitcoin is flawed grabbed the attention of many, tickling the ears of hardcore Lighting Network fans...
Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager
5.2.2020
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
On my 13 inch macbook, with Dock positioned on the left, the viewport height in Chrome is 786 pixels so images with loading="lazy" that are more than 4x the viewport down the page are eagerly fetched by Chrome...
Select an Element with a Non-Empty Attribute
5.2.2020
Short answer:
[data-foo]:not([data-foo=""] {
Longer answer (same conclusion, just an explanation on why we might need this):
Say you have an element that you style with a special data-attribute:
<div data-highlight="product"</div
You want to target that element and do special things when...
Celsius CEO Gives 3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Might Reach USD 30K in 2020
5.2.2020
Alex Mashinsky. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Nasdaq
Bitcoin (BTC) may be standing between USD 20,000 and USD 30,000 by the end of this year, Alex Mashinsky, CEO of major crypto lender Celsius, predicted.
What would lead to BTC to more than doubling its current price and potentially...
Why It's Important for Bitcoin if Bakkt and NYSE Owner Acquires eBay
5.2.2020
The derivatives and equities trading company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange and Bakkt, reportedly made a takeover offer to e-commerce giant eBay, which doesn't seem to have borne fruit. Nonetheless, the Cryptoverse has been speculating what would...
CSS4
4.2.2020
Tab Atkins in 2012:
There has never been a CSS4. There will never be a CSS4. CSS4 is not a thing that exists.
Rachel Andrew in 2016:
While referring to all new CSS as CSS3 worked for a short time, it doesn’t reflect the reality of where CSS is today. If you read something...
Why I’m Joining Cointelegraph Magazine as Managing Editor
3.2.2020
Cointelegraph welcomes Jon Rice as the new editor of Cointelegraph Magazine
Mastercard CEO Reveals Why The Company Left Libra
3.2.2020
Mastercard CEO explains his issues with Facebook’s Libra
Get Moving (or not) with CSS Motion Path
3.2.2020
We just linked up the idea that offset-path can be cleverly used to set type on a path. Don't miss Michelle Barker's experimentation either, with drawing paths or animating text along a path.
Dan Wilson has also been following this tech for quite a while and points out why the sudden surge...
Why Every Casino Should Offer Crypto as a Form of Payment
3.2.2020
Most online casinos accept a number of different payment methods. Pretty much every casino accepts Visa and Mastercard, while some other options that are widely accepted include e-wallets PayPal, Neteller and Skrill, along with prepaid cards such as Paysafecard. Generally speaking, the more payment...
Full Stack Panic
1.2.2020
A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".
... the little voice in your head says ... “I should know all of this. Do I even know what I'm doing?” Why do web developers the world over feel like this?
There is an episode with Joel talking about it as well...
Hierarchies of Money: Why You Use Bank Money But the Bank Wants Reserve Currency
31.1.2020
While people tend to think of money as being all the same, the fact is governments and banks use different types of money than the everyday individual. From the top of the economic pyramid of world reserve currencies, down through central bank and commercial bank money, the capacities and function...