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Russia’s New Prime Minister Has an Opinion of Cryptocurrencies
17.1.2020
The Russian Federation has a new prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, with a track record of statements regarding cryptocurrencies and an affection for digitalization. A stated goal of his government will be to turn the country into a digital platform “for the people.” Time will tell...
Silvergate Bank and Bitstamp Launch Bitcoin Collateralized Loans
16.1.2020
U.S.-based Silvergate Bank has launched a bitcoin collateralized loan product with Bitstamp as its launch partner. The crypto exchange will act as the bank’s agent to manage and provide custody for bitcoin collateral. The product utilizes Silvergate Bank’s Exchange Network to fund loans...
Bitcoin: It’s Time To Seize the Opportunity
15.1.2020
Jason Guthrie is the Head of Capital Markets in Europe at the international investment giant WisdomTree.
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The current economic climate is a concern for investors. Trade-restructuring, high levels of liquidity, systemically-low inflation, inverted yield curves, negative-yielding bonds...
IIF Report Predicts Global Debt Will Reach New All-Time High of $257T in 2020
15.1.2020
Global debt records were broken in 2019, but that likely won’t be the end of such ominous economic milestones, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) predicts. The number could reach $257 trillion sometime in Q1 2020, according to a recent report by the group. Economies worldwide...
Flexa’s SPEDN App – A Facilitator for Real-time Crypto Payments
15.1.2020
New York-based Flexa was founded in 2018 by Tyler Spalding, Trevor Filter, Daniel McCabe, and Zachary Kilgore. The startup aimed to restructure the transaction system and make it more user-friendly efficient and fast. They also wanted to replace the existent payment system with a more innovative...
Online Bullion Marketplace Onegold Sees $50 Million in Crypto Payments
13.1.2020
On January 13, the online bullion marketplace Onegold announced the launch of a new mobile application so customers can buy, sell or redeem precious metals at any time. Since 2018, Onegold has accepted cryptocurrencies like BCH and BTC and the firm currently gives customers a 2% discount for paying...
Overstock CEO: Crypto Investments Are Ready for Prime Time
13.1.2020
Overstock CEO and Medici Ventures President Jonathan Johnson believes crypto investments are finally ready to enter the real world
Court Gives Craig Wright More Time to Await the Mysterious Bonded Courier
11.1.2020
10 days after the Tulip Trust expired, new court filings have appeared in the billion-dollar Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit. One document describes the professed existence of a Tulip Trust III, which was shown to the plaintiffs on January 6, 2020. Another filing shows that Judge Beth Bloom has affirmed...
Elon Musk Continues to Tickle the Crypto Market, This Time Its Bitcoin
11.1.2020
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has been among the top established names of the world who support cryptocurrencies, and he has explicitly shown support for the crypto industry on many occasions. However, we all know that Elon loves to play with his tweets, and crypto is no exception. On Friday...
CSS-Only Carousel
10.1.2020
It's kind of amazing how far HTML and CSS will take you when building a carousel/slideshow.
Setting some boxes in a horizontal row with flexbox is easy.
Showing only one box at a time with overflow and making it swipable with -webkit-overflow-scrolling is easy.
You can make the "slides" line...
Low Interest Rates Provide Precarious Protection Against Crisis, World Bank Warns
10.1.2020
The latest global debt wave is the largest in the past five decades, the World Bank has acknowledged in a new report. The international institution notes that previous waves of broad-based debt accumulation lead to widespread financial crises. Historically low interest rates this time might not...
Understanding Async Await
9.1.2020
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so we'll need a way to handle those long-running processes.
Async/Await is a way to handle this type of time-based sequencing. It’s especially great...
This Company Sets Out to Prove Crypto Mining Has a Place in Your Home
9.1.2020
Hotmine, a company based in Ukraine which engineers home appliances for crypto enthusiasts, is not new to mining equipment development. But sometimes it takes the right time and the right technology to be able to create and offer solutions that consumers would be willing to buy and use. Thanks...
Researcher’s Scathing Lightning Network Analysis Finds Flaws
9.1.2020
On January 7, digital preservation researcher David Rosenthal published an overview of BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) which claims LN infrastructure isn’t decentralized and privacy-preservation is a myth. Rosenthal’s analysis found significant flaws with the LN fee system and...
[aktualita] Nova v roce 2019 zůstala nejsledovanější v prime time, diváky lákaly kriminálky
8.1.2020
Nova loni obhájila pozici nejsledovanější televizní skupiny v hlavním vysílacím čase po 20. hodině. Lídrem sledovanosti byla v cílových skupinách 4+, 15+ i 15–54, přičemž ta poslední je pro ni obchodně nejdůležitější. V cílové skupině diváků 15–54 let dosáhla skupina všech stanic Novy v prime time...
Digital Currencies Won’t Replace US Dollar Any Time Soon: IMF Chief Economist
7.1.2020
Digital currencies do not yet meet the criteria to become a viable alternative to the greenback, according to the IMF's Gita Gopinath
Law Enforcement Requests to Kraken Hit All-Time-High, Up 49% in 2019
7.1.2020
The new 2019 Transparency Report from crypto exchange Kraken reveals that the number of data requests it receives from law enforcement agencies worldwide continues to rise
The Top 50 Crypto Memes of All Time
7.1.2020
Memes are the fuel that powers the cryptoconomy. Exploitable image macros, shareable acronyms, and obscure in-jokes are the stuff that crypto is made of. To mark the dawn of a new decade, news.Bitcoin.com has endeavored to catalog the crypto memes that came to define the last one. These are the...
Why every website wants you to accept its cookies
6.1.2020
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I've never ever built one of those "This site uses cookies, here's some kind of explanation of why, and please click this OK button to accept that" bars that feels like they are on half of the internet.
Emily Stewart:
Most of us just tediously click “yes”...
Bitcoin Mining Power Hits Fresh All-Time High
6.1.2020
Bitcoin's hash rate reached record highs this week, likely as some miners scale up operations ahead of the reward halving event later this year