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Lebanese Protestors Gather at Central Bank as Financial Lockout Continues
25.10.2019
Since the beginning of widespread protests in Lebanon last week, banks and lending institutions have remained closed, fueling fears of an impending nationwide cash crisis. Attempts to assuage the concerns of suffering individuals without money or options are not proving effective, as officials...
Weekly Platform News: WebAPK Limited to Chrome, Discernible Focus Rectangles, Modal Window API
25.10.2019
In this week's roundup: "Add to home screen" has different meanings in Android, Chrome and Edge add some pop to focus rectangles on form inputs, and how third-party sites may be coming to a modal near you.
Let's get into the news.
WebAPKs are not available to Firefox on Android
On Android, both...
ImageKit.io: Image Optimization That Plugs Into Your Infrastructure
24.10.2019
Images are the most efficient means to showcase a product or service on a website. They make up for most of the visual content on our website.
But, the more images a webpage has, the more bandwidth it consumes, affecting the page load speed - a raging factor having a significant impact on not just...
3 Major Signs That Precede the Fall of World Reserve Currencies
24.10.2019
The story of reserve currencies is long and stretches far back into ancient times. As modern history shows, however, the average lifespan of fiat reserve assets is just around 100 years. This means that even the U.S. dollar’s period of dominance is probably nearing its end very soon...
How Centralized Payment Systems Learned to Accept Decentralized Cryptocurrency
23.10.2019
They might not be shouting it from the rooftops, but fiat payment gateways are no longer the enemy of bitcoin. Hostilities have ceased, the bad blood has been let, and today the fiat and crypto worlds are bridged and doing business. Despite the two systems sporting opposing aims and architecture...
How Fiat Money Fails: Deconstructing the Government’s Paper-Thin Promise
23.10.2019
Fiat money has a surprisingly short lifespan. The almighty U.S. dollar currently serving as world reserve currency is not exempted, in spite of all proclamation that it cannot fail. Throughout history, fiat money has failed over and over again, where sound assets like gold have survived. Ruling...
What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...
How to Start a Crypto Podcast
23.10.2019
The idea of starting your own podcast is undeniably appealing. Not only do you get to sound off about a topic that’s close to your heart, but if you opt for the host-and-guest format, you get to engage in stimulating debates with interesting people. But before you rush off to order a USB...
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Not Launch Libra Without US Approval
22.10.2019
Mark Zuckerberg plans to assure Congress that Libra will not launch until all U.S. regulators' concerns are addressed
Down but not out
21.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 21 October, 2019 Pick yourself up “Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's […]
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Designing accessible color systems
21.10.2019
The team at Stripe explores how they’re refining their color palette to make it more accessible and legible for users across all their products and interfaces. Not only that but the team built a wonderful and yet entirely bonkers app for figuring out the ideal range of colors that they needed.
We...
It’s Not Time to Write Libra’s Crypto Obituary Just Yet
21.10.2019
The recent spate of bad news for Libra isn't necessarily a death knell for the project, writes Mike J. Casey
“I’m not buying anything,” says Tron CEO Amid Reports of Poloniex Acquisition
19.10.2019
“I’m not buying anything,” says Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun amid recent reports suggesting that he acquired crypto exchange Poloniex
Justin Sun on Poloniex Investment Rumors: 'I'm Not Buying Anything'
19.10.2019
Justin Sun. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Tron
Tron (TRX) founder, Justin Sun, said he's 'not buying anything', in a response to a report that he's involved in the Poloniex's spin-off from Circle.
"Just invest some and help out my friends. Actually I have a huge bag of $BNB, $HT, $OKB...
Poloniex Spins Out From Circle to Form New Exchange Not Available in US
18.10.2019
Beginning today, U.S.-based users will no longer be able to create new accounts on Poloniex as the exchange spins out from Circle to form a new exchange
Global Crisis Looms as IMF Report Cites Its Own Policy as Dangerous
18.10.2019
In a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) entitled “Global Financial Stability Report: Lower for Longer,” the group gives an overview of the current debt-ridden and precarious state of affairs in global economics. Not lost on some economists, however, is the irony that...
Telegram Asks Court to Deny SEC’s Action, Says Gram Is Not a Security
17.10.2019
Telegram urges the U.S. court to deny the SEC’s emergency action, calling it “an ‘emergency’ of its own making”
JAMstack Tools and The Spectrum of Classification
17.10.2019
With the wonderful world of JAMstack getting big, all the categories of services and tools that help it along are as important as ever. There are static site generators, headless CMSs, and static file hosts.
I think those classifications are handy, and help conversations along. But there is a point...
Telegram Responds to SEC: Gram Tokens Are Not Securities
17.10.2019
Telegram is pushing back against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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17.10.2019
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