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Bitcoin Touches $18K, Crypto Asset Looks to Smash All-Time High, ETH Price Could Spike 20x
18.11.2020
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, the price of bitcoin has been coasting along at levels not seen since the decentralized currency’s all-time high three years ago in 2017. The cryptocurrency’s market capitalization is currently hovering at around $334 billion today. Likewise, the daily...
Not dead yet: Bitcoin Cash ABC up 70% as Sechet releases new client
18.11.2020
After being steamrolled in Bitcoin Cash’s most recent hash war, Bitcoin ABC shows signs of life with a new client release and a 70% rebound in price off a low base
Bitcoin price blasts by $17.5K, but not all agree rally is sustainable
17.11.2020
Analysts explain where Bitcoin is headed next after it breaks $17,500 and continues to see an explosive uptrend
A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients
17.11.2020
Like how you can use the background-color property in CSS to declare a solid color background, you can use the background-image property not only to declare image files as backgrounds but gradients as well. Using CSS gradients is better for control and performance than using an actual image (of...
CSS Background Patterns
17.11.2020
Nice little tool from Jim Raptis: CSS Background Patterns. A bunch of easy-to-customize and copy-and-paste backgrounds that use hard stop CSS gradients to make classy patterns. Not quite as flexible as SVG backgrounds, but just as lightweight.
Like this:
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COVID-19 popularized decentralization, but blockchain may not catch on
16.11.2020
Some predicted the pandemic would provide the “perfect storm” for blockchain adoption. Did they overpromise?
Mixing Colors in Pure CSS
16.11.2020
Red + Blue = Purple… right?
Is there some way to express that in CSS? Well, not easily. There is a proposal draft for a color-mix function and some degree of interest from Chrome, but it doesn’t seem right around the corner. It would be nice to have native CSS color mixing, as it would give...
Crypto firms still not widely adopting ‘travel rule,’ says FATF deputy
16.11.2020
David Lewis, executive secretary and G20 deputy at the Financial Action Task Force, says crypto firms still have a long way to go before they're compliant
MIT cybersecurity experts do not trust blockchain-based voting systems
16.11.2020
“I haven't yet seen a blockchain system that I would trust with a county-fair jellybean count, much less a presidential election.”
Social media problems and solutions: ‘Centralization is not sustainable’
15.11.2020
What lies at the heart of the current problems with social media? What can and cannot be fixed?
Not Every Country Can Shake The Magical Money Tree Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
15.11.2020
Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
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COVID continues to ravage societies around the world, and a key issue is how governments can afford to fight it. As economies are disrupted, governments are stepping in to increase...
Ripple Forced To Rebrand PayID Trademark After Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
15.11.2020
Ripple Labs Inc., issuers of the XRP cryptocurrency, has filed for a new trademark called “Paystring” with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark was filed on Nov. 6 and accepted on Friday, according to the USPTO website. Although Ripple did not specify which sort...
DMEX: No-KYC Derivatives DEX With up To 100x Leverage
14.11.2020
DMEX is a decentralized anonymous margin trading exchange that doesn’t require KYC checks, simply generate a wallet inside the app and start trading. No KYC Because DMEX runs on a smart contract you do not need to register with your personal information. Simply generate a new wallet in-app...
Token Projects Are Not Happy With KuCoin’s Handling of $280M Hack
13.11.2020
Some token projects say they're left holding the bag following a hack that drained the KuCoin crypto exchange of $280 million
Silence is not golden: OKEx still quiet as customers seek answers
13.11.2020
The way OKEx has handled its nearly month-long withdrawal ban has left many of the company’s loyal customers confused and angry
A Spreadsheet Importer You’ll Enjoy Using
12.11.2020
A great developer tool takes a painful task that would normally be a developer’s entire job, and makes it a pleasure to do. As a personal example, I’ve needed to build an image uploading experience many times in the past. I’ve hand-coded them and experienced far too much pain doing that. Then...
Shopping.io Enables Crypto-Payments on Popular E-Commerce Websites
12.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. The adoption of crypto is not possible without accelerating its usage as a currency, and not only as an asset. While e-commerce giants such as Amazon, eBay, and Walmart aren’t able to offer crypto-payment, Shopping.io launches a gateway to make purchases from the aforementioned...
You're Not Alone: Ripple Exec Lost Thousands on ‘Worthless’ Tokens Too
11.11.2020
David Schwartz. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/UNCHAIN Convention
Learn from your mistakes, goes the old adage.
And when it comes to crypto investment, it appears that there is no shortage of mistakes to be made – providing the rest of the world with plenty of opportunities to learn from other...
Understanding flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis
11.11.2020
When you apply a CSS property to an element, there’s lots of things going on under the hood. For example, let’s say we have some HTML like this:
<div class="parent"<div class="child"Child</div<div class="child"Child</div<div class="child"Child</div</div
And...
The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries
10.11.2020
For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we’re heading in that direction.
When building components for a website, you don’t always know how that component will be used. Maybe it will be render as wide as the browser window is. Maybe two of them...