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Reports Criticize Bitcoin SV Miners and the Chain’s Upcoming Fork
20.12.2019
In the last two days there have been two critical posts published against the Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision network (BSV). On December 17, Binance Research published an allocation mining report that analyzed the mining activities of BTC, BCH, and BSV and the research detailed that BSV miners...
How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
20.12.2019
A tutorial on how to re-create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube animation using WebGL.
How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL was written by Lorenzo Cadamuro and published on Codrops
Crypto Will Eventually Replace Fiat, but How Soon and Where?
20.12.2019
The vicious double-edged sword of the Deutsche Bank Imagine 2030 report and what it means for mass adoption
Travelbybit to Drop Bitcoin Payments After Viral Double Spend Video
20.12.2019
On December 18, Bitcoinbch.com published a video explaining how easy it is to double spend BTC transactions in the wild. Not long after the film was released, the payment processor Travelbybit announced it would be removing both BTC and BCH payments for over 400 Australian merchants. Unfortunately...
Crypto Experts Give Their Top Predictions for 2020
19.12.2019
In an industry built around digital scarcity, opinions are in plentiful supply. Everyone’s got one, and they’d love to share it with the rest of the cryptosphere. As the decade draws to a close and another prepares to launch, it’s the perfect time to consider what 2020 has...
MARKETS DAILY: Bullish Bitcoin Dreams and a 2019 to Remember
19.12.2019
Bitcoin's up more than 10%, but will it last? It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily
SEC to Boost Access to Crypto Investments With Proposed New Accredited Investor Definition
19.12.2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed amending the definition of “accredited investor” — a move that will increase access to regulated cryptocurrency investments. A number of them are currently only available to accredited investors. Among other changes,...
Collective #575
19.12.2019
The State of JavaScript 2019 * Awesome Design Conferences * RegExp match indices * Steer the Deer * Crater
Collective #575 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Make a smooth shadow, friend.
19.12.2019
One box-shadow is cool and all, but check out Philipp Brumm's tool for building out comma-separated multiple box-shadows, which result in a much smoother and more natural look.
This reminds me very much of the idea for easing linear-gradient. In a gradient, this smoothing effect is handled...
Bitcoin Holds an Important Support at $6.4k and Takes an Intraday Positive Move
19.12.2019
Bitcoin’s intraday positive movement has taken the coin to trade above $7,000, and more importantly, the coin has even hit $7,400 in the said duration. As per the commodity trader virtuoso, Peter Brandt, Bitcoin has rightly managed to support at $6.4k, which happens to be a potential support area...
Infosys Launches Distributed Apps for Government Services, Supply Chain Management, and Insurance Services
19.12.2019
Infosys has launched industry-specific blockchain-powered applications for insurance services, supply chain, and government services. All these comprehensive applications are designed to meet the specific needs of these sectors, which will be readily deployed for inter-operability across their...
Whales Control Most of Litecoin, Many Ethereum Tokens
19.12.2019
A new study of 140,000 crypto addresses finds that few accounts are needed to form majority ownership of many coins. More than half of all LTC is held in just 189 non-exchange addresses, and on average, the top 100 ERC20 tokens are majority-owned by just 34 addresses. Almost 1 in 4 tokens had...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Correcting Strong Gains
19.12.2019
This week, we saw a bearish extension in bitcoin price below the USD 7,000 and USD 6,850 support area. However, the USD 6,550 support area acted as a strong buy zone, resulting in a sharp recovery in BTC/USD. The price surged close to USD 1,000 and climbed above many hurdles including...
CEO of IOVLabs Talks Financial Inclusion and Holding Governments Accountable
19.12.2019
IOVLabs CEO Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar sat down with Cointelegraph to talk about crypto and blockchain’s role in improving financial inclusion
Bailouts From Asia to the EU Signal Recession and Potential Crypto Opportunity
19.12.2019
China’s Hengfeng Bank is set to get a $14.2 billion bailout from both Chinese government and foreign investors. An emergency decree has been approved to bail out southern Italy’s biggest lender, Banca Popular di Bari. Germany continues to struggle with bailout pains, as regional bank...
Tiger Global and Sequoia May Become Profitable From 2020 IPOs: CB Insights
19.12.2019
The year 2019 has not been very fruitful for investment firms. After the Uber’s dismal performance post IPO, the next year becomes more important to watch. In 2020, there are many more big names that may go public including Airbnb. From the investors’ point of view, the major investment firms...
Bitcoin History Part 22: The New Wealthy Elite
19.12.2019
“I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen, even with a sum as small as 10 bitcoins … The world just isn’t going to be the same and we have been blessed as the pioneers.” When these remarks were made in June of 2011, they seemed hopeful to the point...
Two Lessons I Learned From Making React Components
19.12.2019
Here’s a couple of lessons I’ve learned about how not to build React components. These are things I've come across over the past couple of months and thought they might be of interest to you if you’re working on a design system, especially one with a bunch of legacy technical decisions and a lot...
Print-Inspired Layout on the Web
18.12.2019
I always love seeing people get inspired by print design and trying to port it over to the web. There is a much deeper history of interesting print work to draw from, and still a ton of modern work happening that eclipses most digital design work today. The web is fully capable of bold, interesting...
Australia Probes Big Four Bank Accused of 23 Million Money Laundering Breaches
18.12.2019
With stricter new regulations on the horizon for the crypto space around the world, Australians have found that it’s actually their traditional financial institutions that have been breaching well-established anti-money laundering rules and other industry standards this year. Westpac, one...