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Bitcoin and Black Market Fiat: Hyperinflation Crushes Venezuela as Global Devaluation Ramps Up
2.7.2019
Venezuela is being crushed by staggering hyperinflation as a sharply divisive political crisis has the economy in ruins. Some are seeking refuge in alternatives to the national currency, like foreign fiat and crypto. The situation also calls into question the long-term trajectories of other, less...
Bitcoin’s Survival Depends on an Uncensorable Internet
2.7.2019
In an age of unprecedented censorship, surveillance and rampant deplatforming, Bitcoin stands out as a beacon of hope. Its decentralized ledger enables value to be transmitted to anyone, anywhere without fear or favor. Whether you’re a Mongolian goat herder or a Miami drugs baron, your money...
Ethereum Leaders Are Slowly Courting Gulf Coast Royals and Investors
2.7.2019
The Ethereum Foundation and ConsenSys are both working to bring blockchain technology to the Middle East
PR: CoinDeal Celebrates Premier League Sponsorship Renewal With Token Launch
2.7.2019
Coindeal’s popularity and number of new users are growing very fast. The exchange will soon be available in several states in the USA and has prepared their own CoinDeal token – CDL. This giveaway is addressed to its 300.000 current and 150.000 new users – internal exchange tokens are waiting...
Cardano Price Analysis: The Ranking and MCap of Cardano (ADA) Fell Sharply, Amidst the Bearish Market Trends
2.7.2019
In a recent announcement, the Cardano Foundation made an announcement of being an official member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC). The commercial branch of the Foundation, EMURGO, joined CDC as part of its Executive Committee. Not to forget that the Chamber of Digital Commerce is...
CloudFlare Outage Takes Down Coinbase, CoinMarketCap and Other Top Crypto Websites
2.7.2019
The outage hit multiple major exchanges and information sites
Restricting a (pseudo) element to its parent’s border-box
2.7.2019
Have you ever wanted to ensure that nothing of a (pseudo) element gets displayed outside its parent's border-box? In case you're having trouble picturing what that looks like, let's say we wanted to get the following result with minimal markup and avoiding brittle CSS.
The desired result.
This...
Set Video Playback Speed with JavaScript
2.7.2019
I love that media has moved from custom plugins (Flash…gross) to basic HTML <video> and <audio> elements. Treating these media sources as just another element allows us to use CSS filters to adjust display, for example. The less we need to do with ffmpeg or plugins, the better. I’ve been...
Ethereum vs Bitcoin Price Analysis: Ethereum Walks Along With Bitcoin With Few Highs And More Dips
2.7.2019
Ethereum records a downtrend of 15% in last five days to trade below $300 Bitcoin records a downtrend of 17% to trade around $10,000 There has been a sluggish movement in the price of Bitcoin since last few days, and it has impacted many coins in the crypto market, including ETH. Ethereum has been...
Altcoins Will Die And Only Bitcoin Will Rise, Says Max Keiser
2.7.2019
Bitcoin has come roaring back after a dismal performance throughout 2018. The apex cryptocurrency has more than tripled in since February and is set to go strong in the foreseeable future. In fact, many experts and analysts have predicted that Bitcoin will soon surpass its all-time of about $20,000...
Africa’s Interest in Bitcoin Remains High as 15 States Plan to Adopt the ‘Eco’ Currency
2.7.2019
By 2020, a large group of West African countries plan to adopt a single fiat currency called the eco. After a meeting in Abuja held on June 29 between the 15 member-country regional bloc, the implementation of a new single currency, after debating the monetary unit for years, was agreed. Despite...
Enthusiasts Want Coinbase And Binance To List Dogecoin, As It Is About To “Go To The Moon”
2.7.2019
Dogecoin has been in the news since April after Tesla Chief Elon Musk (only for a joke) became its CEO! The fuel has been pumping more ever since Computer Scientist John McAfee openly praised the token and agreed that Dogecoin will definitely “go to the moon.” However, the biggest roadblock...
Binance and BitMEX Fuel Competition in Crypto Derivatives Market
2.7.2019
The crypto derivatives market is heating up as two major exchanges - Binance and BitMEX - are about to launch new products on their platforms.
Speaking at the Asia Blockchain Summit 2019 in Taipei on Tuesday, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said that his exchange plans to release futures contracts...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Under Pressure, Risk Of More Losses
2.7.2019
This week, there was a fresh decline in bitcoin and altcoins. BTC/USD settled below the USD 11,000 support level to move further into the red zone. Recently, there was a sharp drop below the USD 10,500 support. The price even broke the USD 10,000 weekly pivot support and it could continue to move...
Top 10 Monospace Fonts for Developers
2.7.2019
Developers are extremely passionate about certain things: developer tools, tabs vs. spaces, CSS in JS (or not!), and FONTS! I started a
Side Effects of Economic Growth: Is Snowden Right to Say Bitcoiners Shouldn’t Be Bankers?
1.7.2019
Growth is a goal that’s worth achieving, in most cases, and the current economic paradigm favors it. But when central banks start undermining their fiat economies and crypto companies begin to mimic financial institutions in its name, growth becomes an end in itself with self-destructive...
Weiss Ratings: Litecoin ‘Excellent’ in Adoption and Investment Returns
1.7.2019
Weiss Crypto Ratings rates Litecoin as “excellent” when it comes to investment rewards and adoption
Confronting Bitcoin Network Issues Using Nakamoto Consensus and a Mining Parliament
1.7.2019
On June 28, Bitcoin Cash proponent Javier Gonzalez announced the launch of an interesting protocol called the Bitcoin Mining Parliament (BMP). The theory behind BMP is backed by the concept of Nakamoto Consensus where “miners are the executive power of Bitcoin” and “any needed...
Brave, First Cryptocurrency Oriented Browser Is Working On Integrating Ethereum Along With Ledger And Trezor Wallet
1.7.2019
According to the publication, a new welcome landing page is included in the Brave extension for Chrome. The page highlights three wallets, and these are Ethereum wallet, Ledger and Trezor hardware wallets. Pictures on Github disclose that clients can pick any of these wallets to set up. Moreover...
Monarch Unveils a Marketplace and Crypto Trading Platform
1.7.2019
Monarch aims to streamline the crypto industry by offering a suite of services while supporting 1,900 different currencies