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One in Five Kiwis Bullish on Crypto Investments, New Poll Suggests
15.6.2021
Cryptocurrency investing has been rising in popularity among New Zealanders and a fifth of the respondents in a new survey either plan to or have already, put money into digital assets. The poll also found that young Kiwis are more likely to use micro-investing platforms than older generations....
Reports of Mining Sector Cleanup Put China’s Yunnan Province in the Spotlight
14.6.2021
Authorities in Yunnan are launching an investigation to identify and shut down miners that are illegally using electrical power to mint bitcoin, Chinese media reports. Inspections will also focus on potential safety hazards and will be carried out by various government departments. The mining...
Put a Background on Open Details Elements
11.6.2021
One thing that can be just a smidge funky about the <details> element is that, when open, it’s not always 100% clear what is inside that element and what isn’t. I’m not saying that always matters or that it’s a …
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Links on Accessibility
7.6.2021
Show/Hide password accessibility and password hints tutorial — Nicolas Steenhout goes deep on <input type="password"> accessibility. For one thing, being able to toggle it to type="text" should be possible, while announcing, politely, the change. But also, put the password hints...
Daymak Set to Put Bitcoin, Ethereum Mining Electric Cars on the Roads
2.6.2021
Canadian light electric vehicle (LEV) manufacturer Daymak announced Spiritus - its upcoming electric car that will come with its own comprehensive crypto infrastructure.
The model should support some crypto operations, including mining bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), cardano (ADA), and dogecoin...
Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You
1.6.2021
Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore. I know what it means. It means to put only the CSS required to render things immediately visible in a <style>…
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To $ or Not to $: Displaying Terminal Code Snippets
27.5.2021
It’s very popular to put a $ on lines that are intended to be a command in code documentation that involves the terminal (i.e. the command line).
Like this:
$ brew install somepackage
The point of that is that it …
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UK Bans ‘Time to Buy’ Bitcoin Ads on Buses and Underground for Being Misleading
26.5.2021
The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a bitcoin ad campaign put up across the London Underground network and on London buses by cryptocurrency exchange Luno. The UK advertising regulator says the ads are misleading and irresponsible. ‘Time to Buy Bitcoin’...
HTML Boilerplates
14.5.2021
Manuel Matuzović goes line-by-line through a boilerplate HTML document. I like it. It’s a good reference and has a lot of the same type of stuff I tend to put in the main HTML template. It makes me think about …
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Investment Bank Cowen to Help Institutions Seamlessly Put Cryptocurrencies in Their Portfolios
14.5.2021
Investment bank Cowan, founded in 1918, is launching a cryptocurrency service in partnership with Standard Custody & Trust Co. to help institutional clients “seamlessly secure, access and leverage cryptocurrencies and digital assets in their portfolios.” Cowan’s CEO said:...
Hungary to Cut Tax on Crypto Profits in Half, Down to 15%
12.5.2021
The government in Budapest has put forward measures aimed at streamlining taxation and reducing the tax burden on businesses and citizens. As part of the package, Hungary plans to cut the tax levied on capital gains from cryptocurrency transactions, expecting to increase budget revenue with...
New SEC Chairman Unveils Policies for Cryptocurrencies, Calls Bitcoin ‘Scarce Store of Value’
8.5.2021
The new chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has shared his view on how the SEC plans to regulate cryptocurrencies, particularly bitcoin. He calls bitcoin “a digital, scarce store of value” and stresses the need to put in place some investor...
Electronic Transactions Association Proposes 7 Guiding Principles for a Digital Dollar
7.5.2021
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) has put forward a set of guiding principles to be considered in the creation of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC), also referred to as digital dollar. The organization, which unites hundreds of companies in the payments industry, confirms...
Resident Evil Village Mod Does Something To Lady Dimitrescu, But I Can't Put My Finger On What
5.5.2021
PC modders have done something to Resident Evil Village’s resident tall lady, Countess Alcina Dimitrescu, but I can’t figure out exactly what. Can you? Take your time. I know: It’s a real head scratcher!Read more
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s Million-Dollar Bet: BTC or ETH to Outpace the S&P 500 in 10 Years
1.5.2021
The American billionaire entrepreneur and television personality, Mark Cuban, has waged a bet with Creative Planning’s founder Peter Mallouk over the performance of cryptocurrencies versus the S&P 500. Cuban said on Twitter that the two should put $1 million into a stablecoin-based smart...
China’s Carbon Neutral Stance Puts Pressure on BTC Miners, Sichuan Electricity to Increase 150%
24.4.2021
Bitcoin’s global hashrate dropped ten days ago following a coal mine accident that caused significant grid blackouts in Xinjiang, China. While initial estimates had shown more than 40% of the hashrate dropped, statistics from a five-day average show the hashpower only lost around 25%....
An Asynchronous and Divergent Recovery May Put Financial Stability at Risk
8.4.2021
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Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
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After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit...
US Regulator Accuses Lbry Project of Selling Unregistered Securities, CEO Denies Charges
8.4.2021
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a complaint against the blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network called Lbry last week, as the U.S. regulator has accused the company Lbry Inc. of selling unregistered securities. However, the CEO of Lbry denies the project’s...
Paris Hilton ‘Very, Very Excited’ About Bitcoin — Confirms She Is a Long-Term Crypto Investor
4.4.2021
Paris Hilton says she is “very, very excited” about bitcoin, stating that “It’s definitely the future.” Besides confirming that she is a long-term bitcoin investor, the Hilton heiress put laser eyes on her social media profile picture and talked about her upcoming...
How to Mine Ethereum
25.3.2021
Note: I expect a large number of people to object to cryptocurrency mining’s energy use and I totally understand. ...