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Millennial and Male: 3 Crypto Card Issuers Profile Their Average User
24.1.2020
Platforms offering debit cards that can be topped up with cryptocurrency have enjoyed growing popularity in the crypto community. They provide a payment solution for those who earn and own digital coins, enabling in-store and online crypto payments. Their expanding user base provides a snapshot...
Bitcoin’s Privacy and Scaling Tech Upgrade ‘Taproot’ Just Took a Big Step Forward
24.1.2020
A privacy and scalability upgrade that could turn out to be one of bitcoin's largest to date has passed a couple of milestones that were little noticed outside technical circles
Paypal Pullout Prompts Pornhub to Add Tether as Payment Option for Its Adult Models
24.1.2020
The porn industry is seen by many as a perfect fit for widespread cryptocurrency usage as it suffers from financial censorship far more than most businesses. When Paypal stopped servicing Pornhub models, the company hinted it might turn to digital currency as an alternative and now this has been...
Bitcoin Cash Miner Jiang Zhuoer Answers Infrastructure Funding Questions
23.1.2020
On Wednesday, Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer disclosed that five mining operations had plans to donate roughly $6 million in coinbase rewards (depending on market prices) to developers building Bitcoin Cash infrastructure. The news was met with mixed reviews as some of the specifics of the deal were...
Bitcoin Games Celebrates Lunar New Year 2020 With Introduction of Free Spins
23.1.2020
Bitcoin Games is a provably fair online casino where you can play popular games using BTC and BCH. The platform is introducing a new feature and for its Lunar New Year 2020 promotion all players can get Red Envelopes packed with Free Spins. Also Read: Video Games Giant Ubisoft Is Looking...
Building Multi-Directional Layouts
23.1.2020
There are some new features in CSS that can assist us with building layouts for different directions and languages with ease. This article is about CSS logical properties and values (e.g. margin-inline-start).  These are a W3C working draft that still going under heavy editing, but have...
Facebook and Calibra’s David Marcus: The Problem of Global Unbanked Is “Unacceptable”
23.1.2020
Calibra’s David Marcus explained at WEF what is the primary purpose of digital currencies
Component-Level CMSs
23.1.2020
When a component lives in an environment where the data queries populating it live nearby, there is a pretty direct line between the visual component and the database where that exact content lives. That is opening up doors to site editing experiences that travel that line. We're starting to...
BCH Script Meeting Aims to Enhance the Programming Language in Bitcoin Cash
23.1.2020
Bitcoin Cash developers actively participate in video meetings in order to discuss the ongoing development of the BCH ecosystem. BCH software engineers met for the first time in 2020 last Thursday to examine the May upgrade and specification work. Following the meeting, on January 23,...
Crypto News Roundup and Interviews for Jan. 23, 2020
23.1.2020
In addition our news roundup, we'll hear from former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo, then we'll take a walk with a modern cypherpunk and senior reporter Leigh Cuen
BIS: No Evidence of Mass Transition From CBDC Research to Pilots and Experiments
23.1.2020
The BIS’s new survey revealed that only 10% of central banks are likely to issue a CBDC for the general public in the short term
Build a dynamic JAMstack app with GatsbyJS and FaunaDB
23.1.2020
In this article, we explain the difference between single-page apps (SPAs) and static sites, and how we can bring the advantages of both worlds together in a dynamic JAMstack app using GatsbyJS and FaunaDB. We will build an application that pulls in some data from FaunaDB during build time...
Amelia Wattenberger’s The CSS Cascade
23.1.2020
If you're on a small screen, remind yourself to check it out on a big screen when you have the chance.
Did you know that styles from an active transition beat !important rules, but styles from an active animation do not? I definitely did not.
Or that there are "origins" that are almost like...
Collective #583
23.1.2020
The CSS Cascade * Sideway * Teaching in the open: Eleventy * Form Design Patterns
Collective #583 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Crypto Exchange Liquidity and Why It Matters, Explained
23.1.2020
Exchange liquidity is affecting every trade you make. From slippage and price manipulation to technical analysis accuracy and transaction times, understanding crypto exchange liquidity is key to successful trading. #Sponsored
Goodbye, PayPal! Justin Sun and Tether are New Best Friends of Pornhub
23.1.2020
Justin Sun. Major adult entertainment website Pornhub has added Tether (USDT) to its payment options, while Tron's Justin Sun can also score another adoption victory.
The addition of the popular stablecoin has been announced just recently, explaining what stablecoins and Tether are to the users...
The Gambling Scene and Crypto Currency: Is there a solid link?
23.1.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists.
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To state that gambling is fluid is an understatement. We started from the back room of a bar, moved to land-based casino, to an online market open for all. With the change in scenery,...
More BS on Lightning: Blockstream Pours Liquid on Thick
23.1.2020
Blockstream reps have long been pushing for full implementation of the perpetually-delayed Lightning Network as the main solution for BTC scalability. With the recent announcement of “federated sidechain” Liquid’s integration with Btcpay, however, the tune seems to have changed....
Bitcoin and Altcoins Bulls Struggle to Gain Strength
23.1.2020
After a minor upward move, bitcoin price failed to gain strength above the USD 8,800 area. It seems like the USD 8,850 resistance played well, resulting in a bearish reaction in BTC/USD. There was a break below USD 8,650 and the price even spiked below USD 8,550.
Similarly, most major altcoins...
Regulatory Roundup: New US Crypto Tax Bill, Central Banks Join Forces on Digital Currencies
23.1.2020
In this roundup, we cover an exceptionally busy week for crypto regulations around the globe. We start our coverage with the U.S. Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020, actions by the SEC, Ripple’s lawsuit, India’s supreme court hearings, Australia green-lighting a bitcoin retail...