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Davos Watch: 'Don't Take Things For Granted For The Next Decades'
26.1.2021
François Villeroy de Galhau. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/CNBC International TV
With the pandemic triggering intensified economic and financial stimulus by governments across the world, regulators and banks consider they fulfilled their mission of ensuring liquidity to the markets, but...
Konami Has Not Shut Down Its Video Gaming Division
25.1.2021
Rumors circulating today stemming from a week-old news release suggest Japanese entertainment conglomerate Konami has shut down its video gaming division. Konami assures us it has not.Read more
Bank of England Governor Insists Digital Payments (But Not Crypto) Is Sticking Around
25.1.2021
BoE Governor Andrew Bailey said cryptocurrencies "as originally formulated" are not the ideal form of digital currency
ZelaaPayAE: UAE Will Now Have a Crypto Debit Card
25.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. ZelaaPayAE, with a vision to build and improve the financial structure, introduces a Crypto Debit Card with the ability to be swiped not just in UAE but also globally. Partnering with Baanx, ZelaaPayAE is providing Mastercard enabled Debit Card featuring personalized cards with a...
JavaScript Wake Lock API
25.1.2021
An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app’s relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter — an API that allows developers...
Crypto Long & Short: No, Bitcoin Was Not a Response to the Financial Crisis
24.1.2021
In spite of the timing, bitcoin wasn't created as a result of the 2008 crisis – and this misunderstanding matters
Harvard Economics Professor: Governments Will Not Allow Bitcoin on a Big Scale and They Will Win
24.1.2021
Harvard Professor of Economics and former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kenneth Rogoff believes that governments will not allow bitcoin to flourish on a large scale. “The regulation will come in. The government will win,” he said. The professor also discussed...
Retail traders, not hotshots like MicroStrategy, made Bitcoin in 2020
24.1.2021
Without the global retail trader base, the Bitcoin market would not be what it is today: The investment champion of 2020
Believing, not seeing: Institutions still predict $100K Bitcoin price
23.1.2021
Even though Bitcoin has struggled to reclaim its recent high of $42,000, projections of BTC reaching $100,000 still seem achievable to some
You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr
22.1.2021
There are a lot of grids on the web like this:
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
}
My message is that what they really should be is:
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(10px, 1fr));
}
Why? In …
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This Bitcoin Dip Was Not Caused by FUD
22.1.2021
While there was plenty of FUD flying around, it wasn’t the real reason prices pulled back so significantly
Intel and Nvidia Are Probably Not Colluding to Keep AMD Out of Gaming Laptops
21.1.2021
If you’ve visited the AMD subreddit, the Linus Tech Tips forums, or elsewhere over the last several months, you might have come across a conspiracy theory that Intel and Nvidia struck a secret deal with one another to keep higher-end GPUs out of AMD Ryzen 4000-series laptops. If you looked at...
Bitcoin becoming a cyclical asset, not a hedge, according to JPMorgan strategists
21.1.2021
Strategists at the Wall Street megabank disagree with their colleagues view that Bitcoin is becoming digital gold
You Won’t Get a New GPU for a While. So Why Not Dig up Some of These Less Demanding, Underappreciated Games?
21.1.2021
Nvidia and AMD have released top-tier graphics cards for the next generation of gaming, but you can’t get them anywhere. Trump’s tariffs have raised prices even further this year. And while NVIDIA just announced yet another card—the affordable RTX 3060—I wouldn’t expect to get one of those anytime...
YfDFI Finance: Much Anticipated Farming Platform Released
21.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. As of today, YfDFI Finance is launching not one, not two, not three but four farming pools, locking up a huge chunk of its circulating supply. The team could not have achieved this without the continuous support from the community. Starting off 2021 the right way! “Our team...
‘Let’s Not Be Bitcoin’: Yearn Finance Considers Minting $200M in New YFI Tokens
21.1.2021
Turns out the "no inflation" meme may not be here to stay
Dear Crypto Derivatives Industry, Let’s Not Repeat 2008
20.1.2021
As the crypto derivatives industry begins to take off, it needs to avoid the lack of transparency that plagued the industry in the 2000s, when the financial system collapsed
This Is Not Fiction
20.1.2021
In different ways, some of Marvel’s superheroes like Captain America and the Punisher, and Lucasfilm’s infamous Galactic Empire, have all been in the news as of late for reasons that have little to do with the stories we’re used to seeing them in. Instead, they’ve become part of the odd and often...
Trump Pardons Ripple Board Member and Family Friend, Ulbricht Not on List
20.1.2021
Ross Ulbricht was not on the list of 143 individuals to receive clemency from the President
Former Canadian Prime Minister Mentions Bitcoin Alongside Gold as Alternative Reserve Currencies
20.1.2021
Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has mentioned bitcoin alongside gold as assets that can possibly act as alternative reserve currencies. However, the former premier still argues that despite the growing questions about the dollar’s reserve status, he does not see any real...