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US Real Estate Market Shudders: Experts Predict 40% Lower Sales, March Contracts Dip by 21%
4.5.2020
According to the National Association of Realtors, pending contracts for property sales dropped by 20.8% in March. Further, the 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate dropped to 3.43%, but a great majority of people are still not interested in buying or renting homes at the moment. Economists predict...
Data Shows the US Economy Was Collapsing 5 Months Before the Coronavirus Outbreak
3.5.2020
During the last two months, the global economy has shuddered and a great number of people still attribute the financial meltdown to the Covid-19 outbreak. However, during the last two weeks, the blame has shifted, as many citizens are now blaming the government lockdowns, overly-predictive models...
CoinMarketCap Roast Day: Second Place Is Still Great, CZ!
1.5.2020
CoinMarketCap celebrates its seventh birthday today, and invited the crypto industry to “roast” the data provider for a little fun. We took them up on the offer. Pow! How ya like me now?
One Crypto Youtuber’s Banning Nightmare Still Not Over
30.4.2020
Though YouTube has restored many banned crypto channels, CryptosRus remains sidelined with little information
[David Baron’s] Thoughts on an implementable path forward for Container Queries
29.4.2020
That’s the title of a public post from David Baron, a Principal Engineer at Firefox, with thoughts toward container queries. I know a lot of people have been holding their breath waiting for David’s ideas, as he’s one of few uniquely qualified to understand the ins and outs...
66% of Europeans Believe Crypto Will Still Be Around in 10 Years: Survey
29.4.2020
A poll from bitFlyer Europe suggests confidence in crypto is growing, despite the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic
Facebook’s Libra Has Changed. But It Still Might Be a Win for Bitcoin
25.4.2020
Facebook’s Libra has changed. Having been roundly criticized after its unveiling in June 2019, it has now updated its white paper in a bid to placate regulators and governments.
Most notably, the new look Libra gets rid of any intention to move to a permissionless ledger. It also introduces a range...
“The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”
24.4.2020
That title is from the opening tweet of a thread from Benjamin De Cock. I wouldn’t go that far, myself. What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’ literally means the browser, and while the job has been changing quite a lot — and is perhaps fracturing before our eyes — the fact that...
After a Decade of Promises, Blockchain Still Fails to Deliver Privacy
24.4.2020
In over 10 years, blockchain went from the FBI’s nightmare to one of the easiest ways to track down criminals. So how private is it, exactly?
The Freshest Binance’s IEO Shows It Still Works
24.4.2020
A newly concluded token offering on Binance is bringing hope to proponents of the initial exchange offering (IEO) model that this method of issuing new coins and tokens to the market is still working as it used too - after an initial pump, the price is dropping.
At 2 AM UTC time on April 23, a...
Innovating on Web Monetization: Coil and Firefox Reality
23.4.2020
I still think Coil is cool. I have it installed on CSS-Tricks as a publisher and money trickles in. I have a paid account and I trickle out money to other sites that use it. I wrote about all that last year.
This’ll explode to something huge if we actually get the Web Monetization API stuff....
City’s Ransomware Denials Exposed, Still Faces 100 BTC Demand
23.4.2020
The City of Torrance in California still faces a 100 BTC ransomware demand after downplaying how much private data had been lost in the attack
Crypto Scams on the Rise and Can Still Affect Bitcoin’s Price
18.4.2020
PlusToken is not behind the recent March 12–13 crash but crypto scams could still affect Bitcoin price in the future
Front-End Challenges
17.4.2020
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the websites you make can help yourself or anyone else you care about, then that’s also great. In lieu of that, you can also make things...
Creating Color Themes With Custom Properties, HSL, and a Little calc()
16.4.2020
Before the advent of CSS custom properties (we might call them “variables” in this article as that’s the spirit of them), implementing multiple color schemes on the same website usually meant writing separate stylesheets. Definitely not the most maintainable thing in the world. Nowadays, though,...
There's Still Money for IEOs; Blockchain Fundraising Will Grow - Binance CEO
16.4.2020
Changpeng Zhao. Source: Instagram, Binance
Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) are still very much a thing and will thrive in the future, said Changpeng Zhao, CEO of major crypto exchange Binance.
"I am still very confident in the IEO market," Zhao said, speaking at the virtual BlockDown 2020...
First Mover: Coronavirus Trillions Get Bitcoiners Wondering if Halving Still Matters
16.4.2020
The much talked about halving looks to have been replaced by the coronavirus easing measures as crypto investors' top concern
Hospitals Still Being Attacked Despite Big Fall in Ransomware
16.4.2020
Chainalysis says hospitals are still being attacked by ransomware gangs during the pandemic, despite a fall in the overall number of attacks
Libra Stablecoin is Still a Major Threat to Bitcoin: Economist
15.4.2020
Will Facebook’s Libra stablecoin emerge as Bitcoin’s strongest competitor? Economist John Vaz believes so
Has Zimbabwe Made U-turn on Bitcoin? Cryptopreneurs Still Skeptical
12.4.2020
Despite the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said that it will create a regulatory sandbox for crypto entrepreneurs, local industry players warned not to get too excited and urged to wait for results.
In March, the bank announced that it has started drafting a policy framework.
“The framework...