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Kucoin Boss on Strategy After Hack: ‘We Chose to Act’
12.8.2021
Kucoin, one of the leading crypto exchanges, suffered a hacking incident in 2020 where over $250 million was stolen. However, immediately after the hacking was reported, Kucoin began cooperating with various players from the crypto industry. This cooperation ultimately led to the recovery of...
Save the Children Senior Advisor: We Chose ADA Because Its Backed by the Cardano Foundation
10.8.2021
In July 2021, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children in Rwanda announced it partnered with the Cardano Foundation on a project that allows well-wishers to make donations in the form of cryptocurrencies. Save the Children Meets ADA At the time, it was revealed that Save...
Report Claims Nayib Bukele’s Regime May Issue a Salvadoran Stablecoin
18.7.2021
According to regional reports, El Salvador’s current leadership is in the midst of developing a stablecoin backed by the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, others believe the stablecoin idea was scrapped now that Nayib Bukele’s government chose to leverage bitcoin. Some Say the Colón-Dollar...
Sony Chose PlayStation's First Office Location With Late-Night Drinks In Mind
17.3.2021
When Sony Computer Entertainment first established its flagship PlayStation brand in 1993, its executives’ chief concern was making sure the company’s first offices were located in an area with late-night bars. At least that’s the story Ken Kutaragi, who’s widely known as father of the PlayStation...
Ukraine to Set up a Large-Scale Crypto Mining Data Center in a Nuclear Power Plant
30.1.2021
Ukraine’s government-owned nuclear power plant picked a firm to build a massive data center in Rivne for cryptocurrency mining operations. After a bidding process, Energoatom chose Kyiv Energy Construction Company to handle the nuclear plant crypto mining project. Nuclear Power Plant Operator...
Bitcoin chose decentralization and immutability over payments, says Fidelity
16.11.2020
Fidelity Digital Assets has published its response to commonplace criticisms of Bitcoin
Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper
30.10.2020
Was Satoshi’s release of the Bitcoin White Paper an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?
Italian Banking Industry Chose Decentralization Over Centralization
8.7.2020
The Italian Banking Association, or ABI, uses a blockchain-based system called Spunta, built with decentralization in mind
Gemini Chose to Wade Regulation In New York, Weighs in on Conditional BitLicense
4.7.2020
Gemini looks at regulation as a good thing, with the recently suggested conditional BitLicense as a move in the right direction
Why Cardano Founder Chose Wyoming Over the ‘Giant Egos’ at Harvard
20.5.2020
Cardano founder Charles Hoskison explains why University of Wyoming represents a better return on investment for IOHK than Harvard, MIT or Cornell
How We Chose the CoinDesk 50
7.5.2020
The CoinDesk 50 is an annual selection of the most innovative, consequential and viable projects in the crypto-blockchain industry
Anchorage Chose South Dakota for Its Crypto Custody – Here’s Why
20.7.2019
After a $40 million Series B, buzzy crypto startup Anchorage is setting up a new subsidiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
French Giant SocGen Chose Ethereum for its Digital Token Experiment
9.5.2019
Major traditional financial companies are quietly experimenting with digital tokens. This time, it's French giant Societe Generale Group (SocGen.)
In April, Societe Generale SFH, a subsidiary of SocGen, sold EUR 100 million, or USD 112 million, of covered bonds (debt backed by mortgages) in...
Keep Math in the CSS
12.12.2018
There is a sentiment that leaving math calculations in your CSS is a good idea that I agree with. This is for math that you could calculate at authoring time, but specifically chose not to. For instance, if you needed a 7-column float-based grid (don't ask), it's cleaner and more intuitive:
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1 Element CSS Rainbow Gradient Infinity
5.6.2018
I first got the idea to CSS something of the kind when I saw this gradient infinity logo by Infographic Paradise. The gradient doesn't look like in the original illustration, as I chose to generate the rainbow logically instead of using the Dev Tools picker or something like that, but other than...
To Serve Man, with Software
31.12.2017
I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero downsides. There