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The Year the Narrative Became the Truth
29.12.2020
Bitcoin proved it could change how people think. But will the new system it enables be "better" or just "a system that better serves me?"
Who Insures the Insurer? Cover Protocol Attack Exposes DeFi’s Promise and Peril
28.12.2020
Defi insurer Cover Protocol, designed to reduce smart contract failure risks, was exploited by a bug in its smart contract on Monday morning
Cover Protocol Plans New Token After Attack
28.12.2020
Cover Protocol announced it's exploring launching a new COVER token through the snapshot before the attack by a "white hat" hacker on Monday morning
Proof-of-Stake Was Bigger Than Eth 2.0 in 2020
27.12.2020
Four of the top nine crypto assets by market cap are on a path to proof-of-stake, says the CEO of Staked
Digital Currencies May Make SWIFT Redundant, Says Russian Central Bank: Report
26.12.2020
Digital currencies may challenge and someday could make redundant the SWIFT global banking payment system, according to a Central Bank of Russia official, Russia Today reported. Read more: Bank of Russia Chair: Digital Ruble Is No Threat to Banks
Turkey to Pilot Digital Currency in 2021, Says Central Bank Governor
26.12.2020
Naci Ağbal's comments would place Turkey on the fast track to central bank digital currency
Canadian Company Mojo Invests $1.5 Million in Bitcoin, Plans to Allocate More Next Year
23.12.2020
On December 23, 2020, the Canadian financial tech firm Mogo announced its plans to invest 1.5% of the company’s reserve assets into bitcoin by the year’s end. Mogo’s president and CFO said the initial corporate investment of up to $1.5 million in bitcoin builds on...
From SIM Swaps to Home-Invasion Threats, Ledger Leak Has Cascading Consequences
23.12.2020
The incident shows the variety of ways data can be used to hurt people, and raises questions about how and if certain data should be retained at all
Valid Points: Forget Staking, There Are Still Coins to Be Mined on PoW Ethereum
23.12.2020
Ethereum miners are making investments to maximize profits before mining becomes obsolete and gets replaced by validating on Ethereum 2.0
Blockchain tech in national elections: An experience from Romania
23.12.2020
Romania is the first EU country to use a voting reporting tool that is based on blockchain technology for national elections
Coinbase Awards Its First Round of Bitcoin Developer Grants
23.12.2020
Coinbase, one of the oldest and most profitable companies in crypto, has awarded its first round of Bitcoin developer grants
What Is an Oracle?
23.12.2020
An oracle sends data from the outside world to a blockchain so specific data, like temperature, can execute the disbursement of money
Edge Everything
22.12.2020
The series is a wrap my friends! Thanks for reading and a big special thanks to all the authors this year who shared something they have learned. Many authors really swung wide with thoughts about how we can be better and do better, which of course I really love.
Adam showed us logical properties...
Deploying a Serverless Jamstack Site with RedwoodJS, Fauna, and Vercel
22.12.2020
This article is for anyone interested in the emerging ecosystem of tools and technologies related to Jamstack and serverless. We’re going to use Fauna’s GraphQL API as a serverless back-end for a Jamstack front-end built with the Redwood framework and deployed with a one-click deploy on Vercel.
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How The Web is Really Built
22.12.2020
My 2020 was colored by the considerable amount of time I spent analyzing data about CSS usage in the wild, for the CSS chapter of the Web Almanac, by the HTTP Archive. The results were eye-opening to me. A wake-up call of sorts. We spend so much time in the bubble of bleeding-edge tech that we lose...
Gwallet.Tech: A Hybrid Defi Blockchain Platform
21.12.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
Blockchain technology has been revolutionary as it has enabled the developments of novel financial products. Concepts like staking, mining and ICO have largely flourished due to the developments of blockchain...
“I Don’t Know”
21.12.2020
I’ve learned to be more comfortable not knowing. “I don’t know”, comes easier now. “I don’t know anything about that.” It’s okay. It feels good to say.
Whether it’s service workers, Houdini, shadow DOM, web components, HTTP2, CSS grid, “micro-front ends”, AVIF… there are many paths before...
Bitcoin’s Early Days: Reporter Recalls $200K Sushi Dinner After Spending 10 BTC, Former Bitcoin Dev Sells 55,000 BTC for Under $30 a Coin
19.12.2020
As bitcoin touched an all-time price high this week, the tech reporter at the New York Times, Kashmir Hill, recalled how she spent 10 BTC ($224k) for a sushi dinner for a couple of dozen strangers. Hill wrote about the dining experience in a recent article called “How I Blew My Bitcoin...
Law Decoded: Crypto on the rise, Big Tech on notice, Dec. 11–18
18.12.2020
The crypto industry is ending 2020 on a high note, while major social media platforms face a phalanx of lawmakers and lawsuits
Mastermind of $25 Million Crypto Debit Card Scheme Sentenced to Prison
18.12.2020
The mastermind behind a $25 million cryptocurrency debit card scheme has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison, in addition to three years of supervised release. The authorities have also seized his cryptocurrency. $25 Million Crypto Credit Card Scheme The U.S. Department of Justice...