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Mercurial Tips
19.8.2019
While most of the world seems to be using git for version control, Mozilla continues to use Mercurial (hg) to manage the Firefox source code. As a git and GitHub lover, it took me a while to get used to Mercurial. I don’t consider myself a hg expert but I know enough to complete...
Barclays, Binance, Citi, Coinbase and Deloitte Return to Dublin Tech Conference
19.8.2019
Are you interested in how disruptive technologies will impact financial services? If so, the 4th BFC EU Conference (October 7-9, Dublin) will help you to identify how emerging technologies will redefine financial services to better position you for the future. This year, BFC EU will examine a host...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Rebound Facing Resistance
19.8.2019
This past week, bitcoin price extended its decline and even traded below the USD 10,000 support. BTC/USD tested the USD 9,500 support area and recently started an upside correction. The price gained more than 5% and is currently (08:10 UTC) trading above the USD 10,500 resistance. However, there...
Alive, Thriving and Totally Unauthorized: Inside the Underground Market for Telegram’s Cryptocurrency
19.8.2019
Telegram forbade investors from selling their gram tokens before launch. Yet the secondary market for grams is lively – and rife with risk
US and Swiss Regulators to Talk 'Complicated' Libra Subject This Week
19.8.2019
Six members of the American House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee are traveling to Switzerland this week for talks on Facebook’s forthcoming Libra token and “other cryptocurrency projects.”
The group will meet Swiss regulators later this week, and will be led by committee...
The Most Important Aspect of Bitcoin Is the Separation of Money and State
19.8.2019
Many cryptocurrency supporters believe the technology allows for the separation of money and state in a manner that’s never been seen before. Governments inflict two forms of robbery against nonviolent citizens by forcing them to pay taxes while also stealing from them silently through...
Data URIs
18.8.2019
We’re all familiar with traditional URI protocols like https, http, ftp, and file, but data URIs have become a large part of our online strategy. We can use them to display images, the Mac camera and webcams, and more. But what if we simply want to use a data URI to convey basic data? Typing...
Tron Price Analysis: Tron (TRX) Is back to the red zone and seems like it might drop a little more!
18.8.2019
Did you hear? TRON recently acquired 3.5 million accounts in just 417 days! Well, this might be a moment of celebration for TRON community; however, the performance must be improved too! We are hoping that this might happen soon. Finally! ???? https://t.co/yCpwYVNbOh — Justin...
QuadrigaCX Users Request Information on Recent Loss of 103 Bitcoins
18.8.2019
Clients of, currently not functioning Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX are seeking additional information about the current loss of 103 Bitcoins (BTC) through the fund’s recovery. One of the Biggest Four accounting firms EY (Ernst and Young) was chosen by QuadrigaCX as...
Digital Piggy Banks And Books: How Crypto Industry Targets Kids
18.8.2019
While there are not many things that everyone in the cryptocurrency community can agree on, there is a shared belief that decentralized digital currencies will play an integral role in the future of money. As a result, a handful of companies are building their business on products that aim...
Philippines Increasingly Crypto Friendly – A Look at Driving Forces
18.8.2019
There are many reasons why the Philippines is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. Not only has its central bank registered more crypto exchanges recently, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has also been actively finalizing crypto guidelines. The country has an active crypto community...
IRS Revoking Passports Shows How Government Erodes Everything We Hold Dear
17.8.2019
If you have outstanding tax debt, the IRS may now want to take your passport. For U.S. crypto holders still waiting on promised IRS guidelines for filing — especially those overseas who may have missed these warning memos — the over 400,000 agency notifications issued since February...
Bitcoiners Brace for More Performance Art and Another ‘Satoshi Reveal’
17.8.2019
On Friday, a variety of paid press releases were published stemming from a company called Satoshi Nakamoto Renaissance Holdings, a firm that claims a big “reveal” is coming on Sunday, August 18. According to the announcement, Satoshi Nakamoto will divulge his “real-life...
Passing the Burden of Negative Rates to Bank Clients Opens Door for Cryptocurrencies
17.8.2019
Record low and negative interest rates have put commercial banks in a difficult spot. Across Europe, they have been passing the burden to their clients. Some have introduced fees for those with large account balances, while others are punishing everybody equally. In any case, some bankers fear this...
Amazon Decides to Donate Millions of Products from Third-Party Sellers to Charities in US and UK
17.8.2019
Some of the most significant and most valuable companies in the world are often urged to work towards charitable endeavors on a daily basis by charities, governments, and activists. More often than not, all those companies work towards those goals, and some companies often go above and beyond their...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Bitcoin (BTC) May Go Bullish and Surge up to $12,000 Soon
17.8.2019
It has been a good year for the Bitcoin holders as the coin has shown significant jumps every now and then. The month of June was spectacular for BTC holders giving them huge profits, and it may repeat in the next few months. Bitcoin may move past its current market trends depicting slow movements...
Alibaba Co-Founder Joe Tsai All Set to Splash $3.3 Billion to Buy the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center
17.8.2019
Over the course of the past two decades, ownership of sports teams has become one of the most important trends among the billionaires of the world, and it is all set to continue. Billionaires and the ultra-rich have bought sports team in the United States and soccer clubs in Europe quite frequently...
How Coinbase Quietly Became the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Bank
17.8.2019
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with...
These Bitcoin Users Want DAI and DeFi – Here’s How They Plan to Get It
16.8.2019
The Cross-Chain Working Group project will (almost) enable bitcoin transactions on ethereum, opening up a new world of interacting smart contracts
Draggin’ and Droppin’ in React
16.8.2019
The React ecosystem offers us a lot of libraries that all are focused on the interaction of drag and drop. We have react-dnd, react-beautiful-dnd, react-drag-n-drop and many more, but some of them require quite a lot of work to build even a simple drag and drop demo, and some do not provide...