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Why did Justin Sun donate to Greta Thunberg
31.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 31 December, 2019 “Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” - Jean Paul In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Justin Sun's rationale behind his $1 million […]
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Why did Justin Sun donate to Greta Thunberg
31.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 31 December, 2019 “Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” - Jean Paul In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Justin Sun's rationale behind his $1 million […]
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One Way to Break Users Out of the Habit of Reloading Too Much
30.12.2019
Page reloads are a thing. Sometimes we refresh a page when we think it’s unresponsive, or believe that new content is available. Sometimes we’re just mad at the dang site and rage-refresh to let it know we’re displeased.
Wouldn’t be nice to know when a user refreshes the page? Not just that,...
Making Room for Variation
30.12.2019
Say you have a design system and you're having a moment where it doesn't have what you need. You need to diverge and create something new. Yesenia Perez-Cruz categorizes these moments from essentially ooops to niiice:
There are three kinds of deviations that come up in...
YouTube Crypto-Related Content Not Fully Restored, YouTubers Say “Nothing Has Changed”
26.12.2019
YouTubers say videos still not fully restored after YouTube admits to deleting crypto videos by mistake
Relax, There is Not Enough Data to Predict the Impact of Bitcoin Halving
26.12.2019
Source: iStock/Viktor_Gladkov
There isn’t enough data for us to know for sure or predict with any certainty how Bitcoin (BTC) will behave before or after the mining reward halving, so there’s no room for stress, panic or wild predictions.
The next BTC halving is the talk of the town, and it is safe...
How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree
26.12.2019
One of the more powerful concepts I've stumbled across recently is the idea of abstract syntax trees, or ASTs. If you've ever studied alchemy, you may recall that the whole motivation for alchemists was to discover some way to transform not-gold into gold through scientific or arcane methods.
ASTs...
GoGetSSL
26.12.2019
GoGetSSL is a company that sells SSL certificates. You know, those things that are required to make your site use https://, not http:// which doesn't feel like an optional choice these days with browsers making sites looks scarily insecure without it and search engines telling us is a ranking...
A Bitcoin War Is Brewing Over KYC
25.12.2019
Every year, Bitcoin faces a new foe intent on crippling it by undermining the foundations it was built upon. From mining cartels to developer disputes, Bitcoin has faced a barrage of threats over the past decade. When it’s not internecine conflict taking its toll, it’s external forces...
Best Performing Cryptos of 2019 Not Named Bitcoin
24.12.2019
These are the cryptocurrencies — barring Bitcoin — that had the best financial performance this year
Uzbekistan Bans Citizens From Buying Crypto, They Can Only Sell
24.12.2019
Authorities in Uzbekistan have effectively banned residents from purchasing cryptocurrencies on digital asset exchanges licensed in the country. Crypto holders will only be able to sell their coins and that’s if these have not been obtained through anonymous transactions, amendments to...
Moving Rainbow Underlines
23.12.2019
I absolutely love the design of the Sandwich site. Among many beautiful features are these headlines with rainbow underlines that move as you scroll. It's not scroll-jacking — it's just a minor design feature that uses scroll position to enact a little movement.
To draw the rainbows...
Buterin: Binance DEX Should Be Criticized for Centralization, Not ETH
23.12.2019
Binance’s decentralized exchange Binance DEX is a “way better target” for criticism over being centralized than Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin believes
Unlike Libra, Digital Yuan Will Not Need Currency Reserves To Support Value: PBOC Official
23.12.2019
PBOC wants to distinguish its own digital currency from rival private initiatives
Viral Bitcoin video on TikTok
23.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 17 December, 2019 “Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.” - Jane Austen In today's newsletter, we will be covering: TikTok app's its 1st viral Bitcoin video Venezuela's Maduro to airdrop […]
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Chinese Central Bank: Digital Yuan Is Not for Speculation
23.12.2019
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The head of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC)’s digital currency research institute Mu Changchun has confirmed that a “digital form of the yuan” is on its way – but claimed that the digitized fiat would be “different from Bitcoin or stablecoins.”
The PBoC chief also stated that...
PBOC Official: China’s Digital Yuan Won’t Be a Speculative Currency Like Bitcoin
23.12.2019
According to recent statements by People’s Bank of China (PBOC) official Mu Changchun, the country’s digital yuan is ready for trials. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) will decidedly not be a speculative asset like bitcoin or stablecoins, and will not need a currency basket...
These Myth-Busting Articles Dispel Common Bitcoin Myths
22.12.2019
Recently, a few Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been writing a series of myth-busting articles that describe Bitcoin technicals generally thought to be true but which are not. The articles posted on the read.cash blog have reviewed topics like 10-minute confirmation times, SPV wallets,...
Fomo3D Team Launch New Dapp That’s ‘Not Just a Game’
21.12.2019
Team Just, the brain trust behind viral hit Fomo3D, are back with an eagerly anticipated new dapp, this time on Tron. Just.game has been dubbed “a showcase of how blockchain technology can be used to create an autonomous company that constantly generates revenue and distributes it to anyone...
Binance Returns Frozen BTC After User ‘Promises’ Not to Use CoinJoin
21.12.2019
Binance says it “does not tolerate” Bitcoin privacy tools such as CoinJoin as it refunds Wasabi wallet user