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Massive Protests Led to Suspension of SWIFT and Banking Activities in Kyrgyzstan
9.10.2020
Kyrgyzstan has suspended the SWIFT system and recommended that banking activities be halted until the severe political unrest in the country stabilizes. Massive protests broke out after parliamentary elections as the opposition stormed government buildings and forced the prime minister to resign....
CME Sounding Out Crypto Traders to Gauge Market Demand for Ether Futures, Options
9.10.2020
The largest U.S. regulated market for bitcoin futures has been sounding out cryptocurrency traders to gauge their interest in a listing of futures and options on the Ethereum blockchain’s native tokens
BitMEX founder and ex-CTO out on $5M bail bond until court appearance
9.10.2020
October has been a dramatic month for the top brass of BitMEX crypto derivatives exchange, whose founders face multiple charges from U.S. authorities
China’s Central Bank, Major City to Hand Out $1.5M in Digital Yuan
9.10.2020
A local report suggests the pilot is an indication that the digital yuan is close to being launched
Fed Reserve and 6 Other Central Banks Set Out Core Digital Currency Principles
9.10.2020
The seven central banks, along with BIS, have released a report setting out agreed core objectives that must be met by national digital currencies
Shenzhen to hand out 10 million digital yuan in currency giveaway
9.10.2020
China is promoting its central bank digital currency with a public $1.5 million giveaway
South Korean MP Calls Tax Authority's Bithumb USD 67m Bill ‘Baseless’
9.10.2020
South Korean trading platform Bithumb has won a powerful supporter in its quest to fight an unprecedented multi-million tax bill after an MP and parliamentary finance committee member claimed the nation’s tax authority’s USD 67m tax bill – served to the crypto exchange late last year – has no legal...
Balancing on a pivot with Flexbox
8.10.2020
Let me show you a way I recently discovered to center a bunch of elements around what I call the pivot. I promise you that funky HTML is out of the question and you won’t need to know any bleeding-edge CSS to get the job done.
I’m big on word games, so I recently re-imagined the main menu...
Bungled Theft of Bitcoin ATM Puts Canadian Business Out of Action
8.10.2020
The inept thieves reversed their pickup truck into the store window, after failing to nab the crypto ATM
BMW Rolls Out Blockchain-powered Token Rewards Platform in South Korea
8.10.2020
Source: Adobe/bizoo_n
BMW Korea has launched a blockchain-powered “lifestyle” platform that rewards South Korean car owners with tokens they can redeem against flight tickets and maintenance payments.
Per Aju Kyungjae, BMW Korea stated that the platform, named BMW Vantage, would be "launched...
The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers
7.10.2020
This is an extended version of my essay “When front-end means full-stack” which was published in the wonderful Increment magazine put out by Stripe. It’s also something of an evolution of a couple other of my essays, “The Great Divide” and “Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.”
The post...
Looking at AWS Amplify
7.10.2020
AWS Amplify is a collection of tools from AWS to help you build applications.
Allow me to set the stage here to try to make that as clear as I know how. I have a friend (true story) who wants to build an app centered around physical training. His wife is a physical trainer, and they think perhaps...
‘Crushing’ regulations could drive Ripple out of US
7.10.2020
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said the firm is considering moving to the U.K., Switzerland, Singapore, or Japan
CryptoPunk Bounties: Ark.Gallery Rolls Out Blind Bids on 8-Bit NFT Collectibles
6.10.2020
Ark.Gallery is adding liquidity to the market for CryptoPunks by letting people place blind bids on the NFTs
Oman Central Bank Warns on Crypto ‘Risk,’ Singles Out Dagcoin
6.10.2020
The central bank warned citizens and residents that they use cryptocurrencies at their own risk
SKE48 Splash: Japan’s First J-pop NFTs Sell Out ‘Instantly’
6.10.2020
The first batch of non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading cards for the chart-topping Japanese pop group SKE48 has sold out “instantly,” reported the company that issued them.
The group is one of Japanese pop (J-pop)’s biggest commercial successes and has sold millions of records since it...
Kucoin CEO Says Exchange Hack Suspects ‘Found,’ $204 Million Recovered
4.10.2020
According to the Kucoin exchange CEO Johnny Lyu, the trading platform has recovered $204 million in crypto assets since October 1. The exchange executive says the hacking suspects have been “found” and the “police are officially involved” in order to take action....
$8M Worth of ‘Sleeping’ Bitcoin Rewards from 2010 Moved the Day Before ‘Black Thursday’
4.10.2020
Over a half a million dollars worth of bitcoin from a May 2010 coinbase reward was transferred to Bitfinex on October 1. A parser recorded the old coins being spent and since mid-February 2020, roughly 33 so-called ‘sleeping bitcoin addresses’ from ten years ago have been spent to-date....
Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser
2.10.2020
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, gosh, self, I wish I could have an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of this CSS selector, Lea has your back.
If you’ve ever thought that same thing for an entire CSS file, that’s what PostCSS is, which has gone v8. PostCSS doesn’t do anything...
With Round 1 Fully Sold Out, ClinTex Launches Round 2 of the CTi Token Sale
2.10.2020
2nd October 2020, London, United Kingdom: The lack of coordination, and major issues with bureaucracy are taking a heavy toll on the medical trials industry. Costing anywhere from $600,000 to upto $8 million USD per day, every single day a medicine is delayed not only leads to huge financial...