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Crypto and Blockchain Adoption Grows: 5 Important Developments Sept. 2–8
9.9.2019
Here are five recent examples of how crypto and blockchain are making their way into traditional institutions and firms
Model-Based Testing in React with State Machines
4.9.2019
Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. However, writing tests manually is tedious and prone to human bias and error. Furthermore, maintenance can be a nightmare, especially when features are added or business logic...
Ponder it through
27.8.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 27 August, 2019 Think "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." – Albert Einstein Day 2 of the week. Happy Tuesday! I hope the […]
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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...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...
Five of the Most Important Use Cases for Cryptocurrency
28.7.2019
Crypto assets have come a long way since Bitcoin. What started out as a P2P payment system has spawned an array of use cases that extend far beyond the original designation of cryptocurrency. While the primary function of crypto assets such as ETH and BTC is a matter of some debate, what’s...
Money and Democracy: How the Elite Manipulated Ledgers and Created a Social Ranking System
22.7.2019
Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of exchange called money to facilitate trade. During this timespan, the evolution of money has evolved into a system of information, a social contract, and a ranking...
Deutsche Bank Collapse Could Crash Global Financial Markets
21.7.2019
German financial services giant Deutsche Bank AG is one of the largest and most important economic institutions in the world. Mainly due to self-imposed scandals, the bank is now having to taking drastic measures to stay afloat. Investors everywhere should note that if such a critical piece of...
Improving Video Accessibility with WebVTT
17.7.2019
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
- Tim Berners-Lee
Accessibility is an important element of web development, and with the ever-growing prevalence of video content, the necessity for captioned content is growing...
Top ICO of 2017, Polkadot, to Start Important Experiment
17.7.2019
A highly anticipated blockchain and one of the top 10 ICO's of 2017 Polkadot Network has announced its “canary network”, Kusama – an experimental version of Polkadot, with real economic conditions, for developers to experiment in and test out a Polkadot-like environment.
Polkadot is a blockchain...
Money and Democracy: Why You Never Get to Vote on the Most Important Part of Society
10.7.2019
It’s very odd that citizens never get to vote or have any say in regard to society’s money, even though it’s one of the most important aspects of everyday life. In fact, in developed countries, most central banks are institutions that are privatized from political interference...
Developing a robust font loading strategy for CSS-Tricks
10.7.2019
Zach Leatherman worked closely with Chris to figure out the font loading strategy for this very website you're reading. Zach walks us through the design in this write-up and shares techniques that can be applied to other projects.
Spoiler alert: Font loading is a complex and important part of...
Why Is Scalability So Important for Blockchain Solutions?
9.7.2019
Scalability and mass adoption are key barriers for the future of blockchain technology. Early adopters are needed to work on these issues together for the sake of future blockchain technologies
Five Methods for Five-Star Ratings
5.7.2019
In the world of likes and social statistics, reviews are very important method for leaving feedback. Users often like to know the opinions of others before deciding on items to purchase themselves, or even articles to read, movies to see, or restaurants to dine.
Developers often struggle with with...
Huobi Research Lists Key Features Of Libra, Says Its Important For FB To Rebuild Trust
3.7.2019
Libra has taken the fancy of several major crypto players ever since its unveiling on June 18, and Huobi is no exception. The research and analysis wing of the top crypto exchange, Huobi Research, seems to have been analyzing Facebook’s cryptocurrency and has listed a few key features. #Libra Here...
Snowden: ‘The Most Important Thing Bitcoin Is Missing Right Now Is Privacy’
27.6.2019
Snowden used bitcoin to buy encrypted services to talk with journalists in 2013
Lightning Network Makes Another Important Step Towards Adoption
21.6.2019
A screenshot of the app. Lightning Labs, working on scaling and speeding up Bitcoin transactions, released its first Lightning Mobile App, “the first [Bitcoin] mainnet app on all major mobile and desktop platforms.”
Having already released the Lightning App on desktop, their official announcement...
Privacy Is Paramount: How KYC Makes Us All Less Free
19.6.2019
KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and endless private data collection, coupled with force-backed, violent legislation compromise the utility and ethics of crypto trading. An uncompromising stance on user privacy is critically important to crypto traders and peer-to-peer transaction. It’s...
Crypto Is an Important Defense Against Today’s Orwellian Surveillance
17.6.2019
An effort to change extradition laws in Hong Kong has sparked protests – and questions about digital privacy and the right to transact, writes Mike Casey