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The Internet Is a Luxury Not a Right: 30 Percent of Americans Still Don’t Have it
21.2.2020
Ex-FCC senior staffer Gigi Sohn thinks that broadband connection is a right, not a privilege. But that doesn’t mean that she’s on board with all technological advancements
Binance Is Not Authorized to Operate in Malta, Financial Regulator Says
21.2.2020
Major global cryptocurrency exchange Binance is not authorized to operate in Malta, local financial regulator MFSA states
Binance Is Not Under Our Jurisdiction, Says Malta Regulator
21.2.2020
The Malta Financial Services Authority has denied reports that Binance has ever fallen under local jurisdiction
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20.2.2020
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says Bitcoin Halving Not Priced In Yet
20.2.2020
Bitcoin’s price has not yet adapted to the upcoming block reward halving, according to Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Tells Banks That 'Crypto Is Not a Bad Word'
20.2.2020
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that stressing compliance is key to getting bankers on board with cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Superstar and Bitcoin Era – The Latest Two Faces of the Same Scam
20.2.2020
With the rising price and popularity of bitcoin come numerous scams. Bitcoin Superstar and Bitcoin Era are two investment schemes that have recently gained much attention. News.Bitcoin.com took a look at them, and it did not take much to spot how similar they are to each other and several other...
Israeli Banks Should Not Deny Services to Crypto Firms: Attorney General
20.2.2020
Israeli banks should not deny services to firms involved with crypto, attorney general Avichai Mandelblit said
Lightning Network Increasingly Fragile to Attacks – Hope Turns to Drivechain for Bitcoin Scaling
19.2.2020
A report published February 7 and authored in part by Blockstream researcher Christian Decker found that the BTC Lightning Network is “evolving towards an increasingly centralised architecture.” Proponents of LN say this is not a problem, and even critics of the network point to...
Web Component for a Code Block
18.2.2020
We'll get to that, but first, a long-winded introduction.
I'm still not in a confident place knowing a good time to use native web components. The templating isn't particularly robust, so that doesn't draw me in. There is no state management, and I like having standard ways of handling that. If...
Blame the implementation, not the technique
17.2.2020
I'm not sure we've gotten much better at this since Tim Kadlec wrote this in 2012:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
“Responsive design is bad for performance.”“User agent detection is bad. Don’t segment the web.”“Hybrid apps don’t work as well as native apps.”“CSS preprocessors shouldn’t...
Chinese Quarantines Cash To Stop Coronavirus, Not an Issue With Bitcoin
16.2.2020
Quarantine measurement are being taken for used banknotes in China to fight the coronavirus, some says crypto is the answer
MoneyGram Reveals Real-Time Remittance Tech, Based on Visa not Ripple
16.2.2020
MoneyGram’s COO told Cointelegraph that Ripple is not involved in its latest real-time settlements product
Not All Central Banks Have an Interest in CBDCs
16.2.2020
A central bank survey reveals cryptocurrency is set to gain 1.6 billion users within 3 years
Coronavirus Spreads and Crypto Rallies, but Not Everything Is Related
15.2.2020
The coronavirus and the crypto rally: Is it a case of correlation without causation?
Craig Wright’s $100B Theft Claim – BTC and BCH Used His Database Without Permission
15.2.2020
The infamous Craig Wright, the Australian native who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has published a blog post that explains he owns “the full rights to the Bitcoin registry” and developers do not have the right to change the protocol’s underlying database. Wright’s recent...
IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
14.2.2020
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found...
IRS Does Not Consider Fortnite Money as Virtual Currency After All
13.2.2020
The IRS seems to have struck certain video game currencies and Ether from its list of examples of convertible virtual currency
Beta Voice of EOS Developer Block.one Is Not for Everyone Yet
13.2.2020
Block.one CTO Dan Larimer during the announcement of Voice in June 2019. Tomorrow, Block.one, the company behind the EOS blockchain platform, will be launching the beta version of their decentralized social media platform, Voice. It comes with limitations though.
As promised back in December, Voice...
‘Full Transparency Not Ideal for Cryptocurrency’ Says Chainalysis Exec
13.2.2020
Major global crypto AML service provider Chainalysis does not support full transparency in crypto despite not being able to track all privacy coins