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Blockchain Spending Plummets at Russian Giant Rostec as Hype Wanes
28.1.2020
The state-sponsored Russian technology firm Rostec aims to halve its blockchain research and development fund and now estimates smaller effects on the economy.
The company stated that it plans to spend RUB 28.4 billion (USD 453.2 million) on blockchain technology by 2024, Kommersant reported...
Hedge Fund Chief ‘Concerned’ by Growing Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Hype
11.12.2019
The CEO of Singaporean hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has warned that stock-to-flow-based predictions about rising Bitcoin (BTC) value in 2020 could be wide of the mark – and has claimed that investors pinning their hopes on mining reward halving and stock-to-flow movements could end up...
Chinese State Media Says Most ‘Blockchain’ Firms in China Are All Hype, No Code
19.11.2019
China: More than 32,000 Chinese companies claim to use blockchain technology, while the real number is less than 10% of that
'Altcoin Hype Has Largely Died Off' – Kraken CEO
13.11.2019
Jesse Powell, CEO of major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, believes that the hype surrounding altcoins in the Cryptoverse is at its dying breath.
“Altcoin hype has largely died off,” said Powell in a recent interview with Ivan on Tech, a popular YouTuber. He explained his view by saying that...
Market Outlook: Crypto Whale Tales and China’s Blockchain Hype
7.11.2019
During our last market outlook, cryptocurrency prices had found new foundations after the massive rally on Friday, October 25. Since then digital currency prices have been meandering roughly in the same positions after coins like BTC failed to break upper resistance on various occasions. Also read:...
Big Name Announcements Will Not Save Your Blockchain Project
30.10.2019
At the peak of the ICO bubble it was a common tactic for project promoters to use big name announcements to pump their tokens. Every day we would hear about a new venture that supposedly signed a partnership with a global brand such as Microsoft or Google, to make us think that these tech giants...
China Warns Against Cryptocurrency ‘Speculation’ Amid Blockchain Hype
29.10.2019
Don’t equate blockchain with crypto support, China hints
NEO Price, Ontology, Qtum, Tron, Bytum, IOST Skyrocket on China Hype
28.10.2019
The past few days in the Cryptoverse have been both surprising and greatly entertaining. Following China’s announcement on increased blockchain adoption, and subsequent surge in bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin prices, we also see Chinese projects pump hard.
As previously reported, China’s President...
What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...
Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won’t Take Off for Another Decade
11.10.2019
For years, all sorts of companies have flooded the media with reports of using blockchain technology for everything from tracking vegetables to fake luxury handbags. These claims mostly involved tests that were done only for the sake of publicity, riding the coattails of cryptocurrency, and almost...
The Hype Has Faded But Demand Remains for Enterprise Blockchains
12.9.2019
The days when blockchain was portrayed as a cure-all for businesses of all kinds have gone. Now that the hype has faded, enterprise blockchain projects have quietly begun to ship. While some of these initiatives have faded into obscurity, others have prospered, suggesting that there’s life...
Major Investor: Reality is Below Crypto Hype But We'll Keep Investing
5.9.2019
Fred Wilson. Source: a video screenshot, YouTube, Yext
The co-founder and managing partner of venture capital giant Union Square Ventures (USV), Fred Wilson, says his company will continue to invest in the crypto industry despite "it is easy to be bearish on crypto right now" and "the reality...
PR: PayKassa.pro Launches Multifunctional Payment Aggregator
5.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies will be in great demand in the future, as the cryptocurrency market surprised skeptics once again. As soon as Bitcoin began its bullish trend, hundreds of other crypto coins followed the example. The authorities of large countries are starting to think about regulation,...
Hype or Hope? A Meeting of the Minds for the Benefit of Crypto
16.6.2019
Justin Sun’s upcoming lunch with Warren Buffett is a genius marketing play that can only help the cryptocurrency sector, writes Noelle Acheson
Tether Price Analysis: New $150 million USDT to be printed or just another hype?
12.6.2019
Price volatility of cryptocurrencies is not something that is regarded as a savory reputation, and this is why investors favor stable coins. The stability they bring in is what balances your portfolio in difficult and unpredictable situations. With various complicated scenarios, humdrum prices...
ICON Price Analysis: Will ICON (ICX) Live Up To Its Hype?
29.5.2019
As an ambitious project to create the decentralized network, ICON really stood out in the world of cryptocurrency. This gigantic South Korean project, using innovative technology offered a fully working product that is being used by large Korean institutes like universities, life insurance...
Who Are Design Systems For?
23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...
2019: Year of the DEX
4.4.2019
Is the winter of cryptocurrency prices the golden age of blockchain technology? Welcome 2019, the year of Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) From the CMC editorial team: We’ve heard lots of hype around DEXes billing 2019 as the year that they might […]
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CSS doesn’t suck
15.1.2019
I'm not so protective of CSS that I'm above hearing it criticized, but I'm certainly in agreement here. CSS does not suck. I love how the post is framed to hype up current CSS features the way features of other languages and tools are hyped:
Imagine if a tech dude walked on stage at a conference...
Just a Couple’a Fun Typography Links
22.5.2018
Marcin Wichary made an incredible demo exploring "segmented type" as in, the kind you might see on a display like a microwave, but scaling up in complexity from there.
"Datalegreya is a typeface which can interweave data curves with text."
Airbnb commissions their own new font, Cereal (complete...