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Chainlink (LINK) Nears $5 All-Time High Unfazed by Bitcoin Price Slump
4.3.2020
Bitcoin and most altcoins have yet to fully recover from last week’s Coronavirus driven meltdown but LINK bucked the trend, rallying double-digits since Feb. 25
How to Mix Your Bitcoins Using Coinjoin for Greater Privacy
4.3.2020
Mixing bitcoins using a noncustodial service increases fungibility without having to relinquish control of your coins. Bitcoin mixing services let you keep your coins and retain your privacy, for nothing more than a modest fee and the time it takes to mix them. The most popular noncustodial mixers...
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
3.3.2020
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
There are four different techniques we can use to do this. Let’s look at those while being mindful of important things, like accessibility, performance,...
Bitcoin Mining Investment Strong – BTC Hashrate Surpasses All-Time High
2.3.2020
On Monday, March 2, miners processing blocks on the BTC network surpassed the network’s all-time high as the overall hashrate touched 136 exahash (EH/s). The record-breaking achievement happened despite the price of BTC dropping below the $9K region throughout the course of the last week....
Bitcoin Again Trades Bullishly; How Far is $10,000 this Time?
2.3.2020
Bitcoin is back with a bang as it kickstarts the new month on a positive note. Before closing yesterday, Bitcoin has initiated a price recovery after it found a support level below $8440. Bitcoin has rebounded noticeably and it has already formed a few higher highs while tracing a bullish...
Bitcoin Hash Rate Hits New All-Time High as Miners Shun Price Drop
2.3.2020
Miners appear more confident in Bitcoin than ever as hash rate circles a record 137 quintillion hashes per second
Market Update: Coronavirus Fears, Stock Market Crash, and Bitcoin Price Predictions
1.3.2020
Digital currency markets have been consolidating since the initial price drop on February 26 that saw $25 billion shaved off the entire cryptocurrency market. At the time of publication, the cryptoconomy is hovering just above the $245 billion zone and a few coins today are making slight gains....
Animated Matryoshka Dolls in CSS
27.2.2020
Here’s a fun one. How might we create a set of those cool Matryoshka dolls where they nest inside one another... but in CSS?
I toyed with this idea in my head for a little while. Then, I saw a tweet from CSS-Tricks and the article image had the dolls. I took that as a sign! It was time to...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Slips For the First Time in 2020 + More News
26.2.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Mining news
After five consecutive increases, the Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 0.38% on February 25, and is estimated...
Weaving a Line Through Text in CSS
26.2.2020
Earlier this year, I came across this demo by Florin Pop, which makes a line go either over or under the letters of a single line heading. I thought this was a cool idea, but there were a few little things about the implementation I felt I could simplify and improve at the same time.
First off,...
CoinDeal Launches Crypto Debit Card With Great Benefits
25.2.2020
The cryptocurrency exchange founders with years of experience in finance, Blockchain, and crypto industry, have prepared a pre-order of a CoinDeal debit card. Now, cryptocurrency payments will be easier than ever, at any time and place. If you want to buy a coffee directly from your exchange...
Responsive Grid Magazine Layout in Just 20 Lines of CSS
25.2.2020
I was recently working on a modern take of the blogroll. The idea was to offer readers a selection of latest posts from those blogs in a magazine-style layout, instead of just popping a list of our favorite blogs in the sidebar.
The easy part was grabbing a list of posts with excerpts from...
Gutenberging
24.2.2020
It's been over a year since the big WordPress launch of Gutenberg, the new editor. It seems to me most of the controversy around it has died down. There has been enough time that the UX and accessibility of it have improved, and people are seeing the potential a lot more clearly. There ain't...
Half of Predictions Are Right Half the Time — BTC’s Halving Divides Opinions
23.2.2020
Does 2020’s halving-related BTC price growth have any real value or is it just FOMO?
Web Component for a Code Block
18.2.2020
We'll get to that, but first, a long-winded introduction.
I'm still not in a confident place knowing a good time to use native web components. The templating isn't particularly robust, so that doesn't draw me in. There is no state management, and I like having standard ways of handling that. If...
DeFi Project bZx Exploited for Second Time in a Week, Loses $630K in Ether
18.2.2020
The attacker manipulated price feeds in order to create and profit from an under collateralized loan
Moving from Vanilla JavaScript to a Reusable Vue Component
17.2.2020
I recently wrote an article explaining how you can create a countdown timer using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Now, let’s look at how we can make that a reusable component by porting it into Vue using basic features that the framework provides.
Why do this...
MoneyGram Reveals Real-Time Remittance Tech, Based on Visa not Ripple
16.2.2020
MoneyGram’s COO told Cointelegraph that Ripple is not involved in its latest real-time settlements product
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Gives Testimony on Cryptocurrency, New Regulations Rolling Out Soon
13.2.2020
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gave his testimony on cryptocurrency before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. Mnuchin said crypto is a “crucial area” that the Treasury has spent a lot of time on. He also talked about stablecoins and announced that new crypto regulations...
Bitcoin Cash Captured More Than 10% of Darknet Sales Last Month
12.2.2020
2019 was an interesting year for darknet markets (DNMs) and a number of marketplaces closed for a variety of reasons. Despite the closures, crypto payments on DNMs doubled for the first time in five years. Moreover, statistics from the blockchain analytics provider 1000x Group show digital...