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Bitcoin and Altcoins Face Rejection Near Important Hurdles
16.10.2020
In the early Asian session, bitcoin price declined below the USD 11,400 level, but it found support near the USD 11,250 level. BTC started a fresh upward move and it broke the USD 11,500 resistance. However, on Friday morning (UTC time), the price faced a strong rejection near USD 11,550, resulting...
Here Are the Top Public Companies That Have Adopted Bitcoin as a Reserve Asset
11.10.2020
When Microstrategy Inc. bought $425 million bitcoin in the last two months, the decision became an important stamp of institutional approval of the top crypto’s credentials as a mature, safe-haven asset. The American technology firm had just made bitcoin its primary reserve asset to hedge...
New Stimulus Checks: Barbara Corcoran Slams Mark Cuban’s Expiry Date Idea, Favors Long-Term Relief
5.10.2020
Famous investor and “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran has criticized Mark Cuban’s “use it or lose it” approach to the second round of stimulus checks for Americans. She also shares her thinking on what’s more important than one-time direct payments. Second...
Stablecoins Seen as Most Important Development in Crypto
25.9.2020
Supported by rapid growth in the decentralized finance (DeFi) field this year, stablecoins are now seen by industry players as being the most significant area of development for the crypto industry, a new report on cryptoassets from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has found.
According...
Web Technologies and Syntax
24.9.2020
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
const name = Data.person.name;
If person happens to not exist on Data, I’m going to get a hard, show-stopping error. With optional chaining, I can write:
const name = Data.person?.name;
Now if person...
Jamstack Conf
22.9.2020
Here’s an important detail here: It’s free!
Jamstack Conf Virtual is coming up October 6th and 7th, 2020. The sessions are on October 6th. That’s the free part (register here). Then on October 7th there are a variety of workshops (they all look great to me) that are $100 USD each....
Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
18.9.2020
A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It’s a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge reason:
Any time [the browser] encounters any external resource (CSS, JS, images, etc.) it will assign it a download priority...
Binance Supporting Flow Blockchain with BUSD Stablecoin
17.9.2020
New York, September 17, 2020 — Binance, the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, announced today the agreement to support BUSD stablecoin on Flow, the blockchain developed by Dapper Labs, the company behind...
Bitcoin whale cluster at $10,570 is the most important level right now
12.9.2020
Bitcoin whale clusters show major resistance levels are at $10,570 and $11,288, raising the chances of a major sell-off
Defining “View Source”
10.9.2020
Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of “View Source,” I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same page about what that even means. Jim Nielsen:
First, when we talk about “View Source” what precisely are we talking about? I think this is...
Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics
25.8.2020
Jim Nielsen:
the datasets weren’t even close for me.
Google Analytics works by putting a client-side bit of JavaScript on your site. Netlify Analytics works by parsing server logs server-side. They are not exactly apples to apples, feature-wise. Google Analytics is, I think it’s fair...
Where Does Logic Go on Jamstack Sites?
24.8.2020
Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you can put logic.
Let’s look at a special example so you can see what I mean. Say you’re making a website for a music venue. The most...
This vs. That
24.8.2020
Here’s a nice site from Phuoc Nguyen, who I’ve noted before has quite a knack for clever sites. This vs. That pits different related concepts against each other as a theme for an article. For example, CSS has display: none;, opacity: 0;, and visibility: hidden; and they all, on...
Nailing the Perfect Contrast Between Light Text and a Background Image
7.8.2020
Have you ever come across a site where light text is sitting on a light background image? If you have, you’ll know how difficult that is to read. A popular way to avoid that is to use a transparent overlay. But this leads to an important question: Just how transparent should that overlay...
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
5.8.2020
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel that shows us big things, like how relative CSS values are resolved. We’ll also see how inheritance fits into the browser’s...
Why $11.5K Is the ‘Most Important’ Level for Bitcoin, Traders Explain
5.8.2020
The price of Bitcoin is set for a weekly candle closure above $11,500 for the first time since August 2019
Communities Are Vital For Crypto Projects But Might Become Less Important
2.8.2020
It’s common for people to talk about communities in crypto. We hear talk of the ‘Bitcoin community,’ the ‘Ethereum community’ and so on, but how important are such ‘communities’ to the development and success of their related crypto projects?
They’re very important, according to various crypto...
Bitcoin Brokers In 'Very Important' Race For Big Investors - BitGo Prime CEO
25.7.2020
As prime brokerage has become an integral part of traditional financial markets, crypto industry players are racing to bring these services into this nascent market too. This would increase efficiency and encourage more institutional investors to allocate more of their funds to cryptoassets...
Blockchain Applications in Education
20.7.2020
The education industry is just as important as healthcare, manufacturing or finance — and it has the same willingness toContinue Reading
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Blockchain Applications in Education
20.7.2020
The education industry is just as important as healthcare, manufacturing or finance — and it has the same willingness toContinue Reading
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