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Blockchain Bites: Data Unions. Hard Forks. And One Citi Analyst’s Case for $300K BTC.
16.11.2020
MIT researchers resoundingly reject blockchain-based voting. A Citibank MD thinks bitcoin could break out. And another DeFi protocol was hit with a flash loan attack
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...
Node isConnected
13.11.2020
Every so often I discover a property in JavaScript objects that I didn’t know existed, oftentimes using another trick to accomplish the same functionality. One such property I just learned about was isConnected, a node property that attached to a context (i.e. document). Here’s how...
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...
Venezuelan State Electricity Company Reportedly Cuts Power To Crypto Miners
12.11.2020
Reports say the Venezuelan state electricity company Corpoelec is disconnecting bitcoin mining farms in Carabobo state on orders from authorities. The power disconnections come amid reports that government and Corpoelec officials are planning to meet mining farm operators. According to one report...
My WordPress Comments Wishlist
12.11.2020
A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system is compelling (and as big of a fan of building on WordPress as I am), I find the comments system on WordPress quite crusty. It needs some love!...
The Carbon Project Presale Opens to the Public
12.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Carbon is a social crypto hub, slated to launch in January. It will bring your day-to-day crypto experience into one awesome place, while rewarding you at the same time. Fully encrypted data that’s as decentralised as you want it to be. Carbon includes features such as...
Libraries for SVG Drawing Animations
11.11.2020
In 2013, Jake Archibald introduced this cool trick of animating an SVG path to look like it’s drawing itself. It’s 2020 now, and the trick is still popular. I’ve seen it on a lot of websites I’ve visited recently. I, too, feature an animated SVG loader on my website using one of the libraries I’ll...
Kucoin Recovers 84% of Funds Stolen in $280 Million Hack
11.11.2020
Kucoin chief executive officer Johnny Lyu revealed Wednesday that the exchange recovered 84%, or $235 million, of the $280 million stolen in one of crypto industry’s biggest hacks in September. In a tweet, Lyu said the affected funds have been recovered “via approaches like on-chain...
Venezuela’s Bitcoin Story Puts It in a Category of One
11.11.2020
Venezuela’s peer-to-peer bitcoin activity has been extraordinary, whether measured as an absolute or relative to GDP, according to CoinDesk Research data
One of the world's top banks issues bonds that can be bought with Bitcoin
11.11.2020
China Construction Bank has used blockchain technology to issue the first tranche of a planned $3 billion worth of debt
Major Chinese Bank Selling Bonds Worth $3 Billion for Bitcoin
11.11.2020
China Construction Bank, one of the “big four” banks in China, is selling $3 billion in bonds that can be paid for with bitcoin. The bonds will be listed on a regulated Malaysian digital asset exchange. Beijing-based China Construction Bank (CCB) is selling $3 billion in bonds...
Blockchain-Backed Election Art Sells for $66K, Animation Changes After Electoral College Decision
11.11.2020
While Americans wait for the official outcome of the electoral college, a blockchain-backed non-fungible token (NFT) called “Crossroad” will change to one of two animations featuring the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump. The animated election-based “Crossroad” NFT recently...
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...
Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Tops $22.5M One Week After Launch
10.11.2020
The deposit contract for Ethereum’s 2.0 upgrade now holds over 50k ETH – 10% of the threshold needed to activate the watershed update
Why One Crypto Artist Won’t Call Biden Victory until Fat Lady Sings
10.11.2020
NFTs by Beeple.
World leaders may have been racing to congratulate United States President-elect Joe Biden on his still officially unconfirmed win over President Donald Trump – but like the incumbent commander-in-chief, one crypto artist said he will wait for conclusive proof of Biden’s election...
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...
A Look at ‘Individual X’ and the Seized Stash of Silk Road Bitcoins Worth $1 Billion
9.11.2020
On November 3, 2020, the cryptocurrency community noticed that one of the largest addresses holding 69,369 bitcoins from the Silk Road were transferred. Following the onchain movement, the U.S. government revealed it had seized the coins from a person they dubbed “Individual X.”...
Yearnify Finance (YFY) Bringing Value To Decentralized Finance Ecosystem – Token Pre-Sale Is Live
7.11.2020
Yearnify Finance is considered as one of the most innovative sources of passive income by most of the investors. It has drawn attention due to its potential high returns and extreme security majors. What is Yearnify Finance? In this article, we will provide detailed information about Yearnify...
How to Create a Commenting Engine with Next.js and Sanity
6.11.2020
One of the arguments against the Jamstack approach for building websites is that developing features gets complex and often requires a number of other services. Take commenting, for example. To set up commenting for a Jamstack site, you often need a third-party solution such as Disqus, Facebook,...