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What I Learned the First Time I Lost a Million Dollars
21.5.2020
It doesn't take long to learn how to trade, but it takes a lifetime to learn how to manage risk, says Jeff Dorman, CIO at Arca
Russia Considering Draconian Rules for Illegal Crypto Operations
21.5.2020
Harsh new rules for using and issuing digital assets without a license might soon become law in Russia
Generations of Debt: US Taxpayers Held Liable for Federal Reserve’s $6.9 Trillion Balance
20.5.2020
The central banking system in the U.S. and the country’s megabanks have manipulated the economy for quite some time and these days, the coronavirus has been a great excuse to create trillions for stimulus. A recent report from the analysts at Wall Street on Parade indicates that American...
50 BTC Just Moved for First Time Since 2009 – But It Doesn’t Look Like Satoshi
20.5.2020
50 bitcoin held in an inactive wallet since 2009 were moved Wednesday, but there's little to support the belief that creator Satoshi Nakamoto mined those coins
Did Satoshi Just Move His Coins for The First Time in 11 Years?
20.5.2020
Bitcoin’s founder Satoshi Nakamoto may have just moved his coins as an 11 year old address moved the entirety of its funds to an untraceable chain
Avoid Heavy Babel Transformations by (Sometimes) Not Writing Modern JavaScript
20.5.2020
It’s hard to imagine writing production-ready JavaScript without a tool like Babel. It’s been an undisputed game-changer in making modern code accessible to a wide range of users. With this challenge largely out of the way, there’s not much holding us back from really leaning into...
Bitcoin Sentiment on Twitter Reaches Its Highest Level in 3 Years, Says Data Firm The Tie
20.5.2020
Positive investor sentiment about bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter has reached record levels – its highest in three years – triggered by the cryptocurrency’s supply cut earlier this month, data shows. According to crypto data company The Tie, the 30-day average daily sentiment score is...
First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout
18.5.2020
It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long time. Masonry being that kind of layout where unevenly-sized elements are layed out in ragged rows. Sorta like a typical...
Unprefixed `appearance `
18.5.2020
It’s interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward. One big story there was how Bloomberg hired Igalia to implement CSS grid across the browsers.
Here’s another story of Bocoup doing that, this time for the appearance property. The story...
Time Is up for Crypto Firms to Register in the Netherlands Under New AML Rules
18.5.2020
Today is the deadline for Dutch crypto companies to register and pay a new fee under new AML rules
The American Empire Is in Decline. Time for a New Economic System
18.5.2020
From debt to inequality, the U.S. economy looks like a 1930s disaster waiting to happen. No wonder gold-bugs and Bitcoiners are feeling vindicated
S2F Hopium: Report and Twitter Critics Find Flaws With Bitcoin’s Stock-to-Flow Ratio
17.5.2020
In mid-April, news.Bitcoin.com researched the popular stock-to-flow (S2F), which shows the price of a single bitcoin reaching $55K and even six figures. At the time, analysts questioned measuring bitcoin’s price in this manner and more recently, a few others have been criticizing the method...
Time For ETH to Rise and Shine as Futures Trading Now Available in US
16.5.2020
ErisX rolls out CFTC-regulated, physically-settled ETH futures contracts to U.S. traders, but positive spot price action is not a certainty
How Investors Are Presented With Bitcoin: ‘A New Decentralized Monetary Asset, Akin to Gold’
16.5.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is a compelling investment case “for patient, long-term investors” willing to spend the time to understand the top cryptocurrency, a new paper by Paradigm co-founder managing partner Matt Huang notes. The crypto entrepreneur places BTC besides gold, as a go-to store...
Crypto Derivatives Exchange FTX Launches Bitcoin Hashrate Futures
15.5.2020
On Friday, Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX launched a hashrate futures tool that allows Bitcoin (BTC) miners to hedge against mining difficulty risk. Hashrate, the amount of processing power dedicated to a Bitcoin network at a given time, determines the strength and security of the network....
Why Privacy Is the Main Issue in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
15.5.2020
Losing privacy may be a big concern in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new class of technology is positioning us well for a more anonymous future
Bitcoin Network Sees a Massive Mining Pool Shift Following the Halving
14.5.2020
Following the third bitcoin halving on May 11, 2020, there’s been a big shift in mining pool distribution, as far as hashrate is concerned. At the time of publication, there’s around 100-115 exahash per second (EH/s) in search of bitcoin blocks and spectators have seen two relatively...
Monex Group CEO to First-Time Investors: Buy Bitcoin, Gold & US Stocks
14.5.2020
Oki Matsumoto. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, JapanSocietyNYC
The CEO of the Monex Group, a major Japanese securities company has advised investors to buy bitcoin (BTC), gold and American stocks.
In a blog post, Monex chief Oki Matsumoto stated that first-time investors would be advised...
React Single File Components Are Here
13.5.2020
Shawn Wang is talking about RedwoodJS here:
… it is the first time React components are being expressed in a single file format with explicit conventions.
Which is the RedwoodJS idea of Cells. To me, it feels like a slightly cleaner version of how Apollo wants you to do it with useQuery....
New User Registrations on Binance Approach All-Time High Amid Bitcoin Halving
12.5.2020
Binance’s CEO said that the number of new user registrations has reapproached the levels seen at the peak of the 2017/2018 parabolic bull run