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How to Stay Safe When Using Darknet Markets
15.6.2019
If you’re planning to visit a darknet market, you’re either keen to window shop or keen to sample the wares. Whatever your reasons for stopping by, that’s your business and no one else’s. Unfortunately, not everyone shares those civilized ideals. To keep those spoilsports...
Meet the Developer Who Added Schnorr Signatures to Bcash
14.6.2019
This week news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Jonathan Gonzalez, the blockchain developer who is currently maintaining the Bcash project, a Bitcoin Cash full node written in node.js. Gonzalez explained how he got into Bitcoin Cash development and how he managed to get the Bcash node fully compatible with...
Weekly Platform News: CSS Scroll Snap, Opera GX, PWA Install Icon
14.6.2019
In this week's roundup, Chrome is adding an install option for Progressive Web Apps, Opera GX comes to Windows, the ECMAScript proposals get an update, and CSS Scroll Snap is coming to a Firefox browser near you.
The post Weekly Platform News: CSS Scroll Snap, Opera GX, PWA Install Icon appeared...
Bounty.Cash Pairs Projects With Developers Finding Solutions for BCH
14.6.2019
Using bounties to seek solutions to various problems has proved to be a working approach for many projects in the crypto industry. Bounty.Cash is a platform that matches businesses and entrepreneurs with developers who are ready to solve issues with apps and features and get rewarded with bitcoin...
Ripple vs Ethereum: How XRP and ETH Prices Have Transformed the Crypto Market Over a Month
14.6.2019
In a month’s duration, ETH has increased notably, while XRP tumbled ETH had its 30-day high price at 288.29 USD; XRP’s 30-day high price at 0.47 USD XRP, since last one week is having a rough patch as it is failing to maintain its price level above 0.40 USD. It was yesterday when XRP...
Bitfinex Is Starting to Buy Back and ‘Burn’ Its LEO Exchange Token
14.6.2019
The crypto exchange has announced a transparency initiative that will see it put on full view the repurchase and destruction of its LEO token
Facebook Secures Backing From Uber, Mastercard, Paypal And VISA For Its Soon-To-Be Launch Cryptocurrency
14.6.2019
Crypto space on the verge of its biggest boom as the traditional giants are taking big strides in the industry, with some launching their own tokens, while others backing existing currencies. Facebook, the social media behemoth, is all set to shake the market with the launch of its stablecoin...
WDRL — Edition 267: Econom(log)ical Limits of Work, Privacy Wilderness and UX for Tech Diets.
14.6.2019
Hey,
I see a lot of people struggle with their jobs, how to keep up to date, how to find purpose in what you do, how to earn money while staying within your ethical constraints. This all can be overwhelming and it happens to me regularly, too. I’m struggling to find projects I want to work on that...
Venezuela Issues 50,000 Bolivar Bill Amid Persistent Hyperinflation
14.6.2019
Venezuelans are used to their currency costing less than the paper it’s printed on. Economic misfortunes and political upheaval place their country at the bottom of all inflation charts, year after year. The latest incarnation of the national fiat, Bolívar Soberano, has succumbed to...
Bakkt Announces Details And Date To Launch The Bitcoin Futures Testing On The ICE
14.6.2019
Bakkt, the bitcoin focused platform by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has finally announced the launch date of Bitcoin futures trading. It has also revealed the much-awaited details regarding BTC futures on the ICE platform. Bitcoin futures testing will begin on July 22. It will be listed on...
Facebook Coin Raises Over USD 120M from Visa, PayPal and the Like
14.6.2019
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly managed to find more than a dozen companies that will invest in its payments project, Libra, around USD 10 million each.
Venture capitalists, financial, e-commerce, telecommunications companies such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal Holdings and Uber...
Review: The Corazon Trezor by Gray Is Made of Titanium
14.6.2019
Hardware wallets don’t have to look beautiful – they just have to work. The Corazon by Gray is a silver titanium device that happens to delivers on both counts. USB hardware has never looked or felt so good in your hand. All that brushed metal and angular chic comes at a price though...
An In-Depth Look at Iris, a New Decentralized Social Network
13.6.2019
Cryptocurrency advocates have been discussing a new social media platform designed by one of Bitcoin’s earliest developers Martti Malmi, otherwise known as Sirius. The project he designed, called Iris, is a social networking application that stores and indexes everything on the user’s...
Collective #524
13.6.2019
The Layout Instability API * Write HTML Like It's 1999 * JavaScript questions * Pika CDN * The Economics of Open Source
Collective #524 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
National Fisheries Institute and IBM’s Food Trust Work on Seafood Blockchain Traceability
13.6.2019
IBM’s blockchain supply chain solution Food Trust will be applied to trace seafood by United States seafood trade association National Fisheries Institute
Circle and Coinbase Invite More Members to Consortium Behind US Dollar Coin
13.6.2019
Circle and Coinbase have opened up their consortium for stablecoin issuance to more members
Coinbase and Circle Opened Doors to New USDC Issuers
13.6.2019
News came out of Centre Consortium today, the joint venture of crypto giants Circle and Coinbase – the stablecoin network is now open for industry participation and broader membership.
As a reminder, in October 2018, Circle and Coinbase partnered up and formed the Consortium, but also launched...
Drawing Realistic Clouds with SVG and CSS
13.6.2019
Greek mythology tells the story of Zeus creating the cloud nymph, Nephele. Like other Greek myths, this tale gets pretty bizarre and X-rated. Here’s a very abridged, polite version.
Nephele, we are told, was created by Zeus in the image of his own beautiful wife. A mortal meets Nephele, falls...
A11Y with Lindsey
13.6.2019
Lindsey Kopacz has a wonderful blog about accessibility. I've seen a number of her articles making the rounds lately and I was like, dang I better make sure I'm subscribed. For example:
An Introduction to ARIA States
3 Simple Tips to Improve Keyboard Accessibility
Create custom keyboard accessible...
US FDA Partners With IBM and Walmart to Improve Drug Supply Chain Using Blockchain
13.6.2019
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has partnered with IBM, Walmart, KPMG and Merck to apply blockchain in the drug supply chain