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BCH Community Leaders Bitcoin.com and Jonald Fyookball Clarify Positions on Funding Proposal
26.1.2020
Since Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer revealed an infrastructure funding proposal from five major mining pools last week, which would fund BCH devs via redirection of 12.5% of BCH coinbase rewards, the Bitcoin Cash community has been understandably bustling with debate, discussion, and suggestions....
How SEBA is Bridging the Gap between Crypto and Traditional Banking
26.1.2020
SEBA Bank is a completely operational bank with a wide range of services; it helps in assisting the gap between crypto and traditional banking. SEBA has been authorized in Switzerland; the bank’s crypto services include trading, asset management, custody, and financing. SEBA’s wallet...
“Browser Functions”
26.1.2020
Serverless functions are fairly straightforward. Put a bit of back-end language code, like Node, in the cloud and communicate with it via URL. But what if that URL didn't run a back-end language, it ran an actual browser? Richard Young:
We can now do full stack development using just Web APIs....
Data Shows $25 Billion Worth of Bitcoin and Ether Held by Seven Crypto Exchanges
26.1.2020
On January 3, 2020, a small group of crypto enthusiasts celebrated the second annual Proof-of-Keys day with hopes to get people to withdraw funds from centralized digital currency exchanges. However, exchanges holding massive amounts of BTC only saw their reserves grow larger and data shows that...
Companies Keep Flocking to Swiss Crypto Valley, Over 1,000 Jobs Added in a Year
26.1.2020
Crypto Valley, a fintech-friendly region centered on the canton of Zug, has been expanding to other parts of Switzerland and neighboring Liechtenstein. Despite all the challenges facing the blockchain industry, favorable regulations and improving access to banking and legal services are attracting...
The Fallout From Onecoin’s Ponzi Scheme Continues to Impact Investors
25.1.2020
In late 2019, the remnants of multi-level Ponzi scheme Onecoin crumbled. However, Onecoin’s founder, dubbed the ‘crypto queen,’ Ruja Ignatova, remains on the run and law enforcement haven’t caught up with her yet. Moreover, police are investigating two churches in...
Blockchain and 5G: Greatest Promise Is to Transform the Developing World
25.1.2020
How and why the developing world could benefit from the new technological hybrid: blockchain and 5G?
CV Summit United Blockchain Leaders and Enthusiasts in Davos
25.1.2020
If you wanted to talk crypto at Davos, you mostly needed to attend the World Economic Forum’s unofficial side events
Leading Swiss Stock Exchange Offers 12 Crypto Exchange-Traded Products With One That Shorts Bitcoin
25.1.2020
Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, now has 12 cryptocurrency exchange-traded products listed. The latest addition, the 21shares Short Bitcoin, allows investors to profit from falling prices of the digital currency. Other listed crypto products include those that track...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #2
25.1.2020
Some selected shots of great UI interactions and animation for your inspiration.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #2 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Transformation, Domination, Evasion, and 20 Crypto Jokes
25.1.2020
This week in crypto, experts at the WEF said that digital finance, crypto and blockchain-powered economics are sweeping through markets in the developing world unchallenged and that digital tokens could transform the world of business and art. While Binance aims to find more merchants for its...
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Market Microstructures
25.1.2020
Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Market Microstructures
25.1.2020
Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Market Microstructures
25.1.2020
Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure
Cardano Foundation and ScanTrust Come Together for Proof-of-Concept Integration
25.1.2020
In an important development that signifies the growing role of blockchain technology in the distribution and packaging company, Cardano Foundation has decided to collaborate with ScanTrust to provide proof-of-concept integration for the supply chain data project. This is going to open up...
Research Firm and Environmental Watch Dog Test World’s First Air Quality Ledger
24.1.2020
Global partnership between PlanetWatch and Algorand tests new blockchain air quality sensors and ledger
How to Obscure Bitcoin Cash Transaction Data by Leveraging Cashfusion
24.1.2020
Bitcoin Cash developers recently released the alpha software for Cashfusion, a privacy-preserving feature added to the Electron Cash wallet. During the last week, crypto proponents and developers have been testing the protocol regularly in order to find issues and provide the Cashfusion team with...
Playwright
24.1.2020
So Microsoft launches a Node-based browser automation project called Playwright. It allows you to spin up a headless version of a browser and control it. Go here! Click something! Take a screenshot! That kind of stuff. Particularly useful for testing.
It's just like Google's Puppeteer, only...
Bundling JavaScript for Performance: Best Practices
24.1.2020
Performance advice from David Calhoun on how many scripts to load on a page for best performance:
[...] some of your vendor dependencies probably change slower than others. react and react-dom probably change the slowest, and their versions are always paired together, so they...
Davos, CBDCs, and the Rise of Bitcoin Art
24.1.2020
The word from Davos is blockchain not crypto, cashless futures, and CBDCs, while Brekkie von Bitcoin gives us his take on the emergent field of bitcoin art