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The Push to Kill Cash – Australia’s Proposed Ban Shows It’s Not Conspiracy Theory
23.8.2019
The supposed coordination of governments and tech companies to create a one-world, cashless society is often viewed as little more than fodder for silly Youtube conspiracy videos. After all, cash is still king in daily life, even in extremely high-tech, innovative societies like Japan. Upon closer...
Apple Credit Card is Not To Be Kept in Leather Wallet or Nearby Denim, Warns Apple
22.8.2019
One of the biggest developments this year in the financial world has been the launch of the Apple credit card earlier this month. Over the past decade and a half, the tech giant has entered a range of different businesses and managed to turn it around altogether. The Apple Credit Card, produced...
Bitcoin Price ‘Not at the Top’ of New Bull Cycle Yet, New Data Shows
22.8.2019
Bitcoin price now is like it was just before 2017 all-time high, data suggests
Facebook is not Behind Virtual Bootcamp for Libra Cryptocurrency Developers
21.8.2019
Contrary to popular belief, Facebook is not behind the Virtual Bootcamp that is slated to begin in November, held for the Libra developers. This first incubator is being organized by Libracamp, a newly formed start-up by Israeli entrepreneurs. The start-up’s team of entrepreneurs is keen to make...
Indian Supreme Court Orders RBI to Answer Crypto Exchanges, New Date Set
21.8.2019
After hearing the arguments against the banking restriction by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in detail, the Indian supreme court directed the central bank to reply to the representations filed by crypto exchanges. Since the RBI has not adequately answered them, the court set a new date to resume...
Bitcoin Hash Rate ‘Not Affected’ as China Floods Knock Out Miners
21.8.2019
Bitcoin shakes off new miner outages after China floods
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
20.8.2019
This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still...
Cardano Price Analysis: Cardano’s 1.51% Loss Overnight May Not Impact its Next Target of $0.0513
20.8.2019
Cardano is down by 1.51% over the last 24 hours. The next resistance may come at 0.0513 USD. Cardano could not maintain its value against USD at 0.050 USD yesterday and fell by 1.51% to reach at 0.049 USD. This decrease might not seem a bigger one, but it surely halts Cardano’s plan for growth...
Fiat Lite vs. Freedom Maximalist: The Two Types of Bitcoiner
19.8.2019
As regulation continues growing exponentially for cryptocurrencies worldwide, a chasm is yawning ever deeper between supporters. On the one hand, many yearn for massive adoption and clear regulations so they can get on with their trading, and get on with their lives – not to mention...
The Most Important Aspect of Bitcoin Is the Separation of Money and State
19.8.2019
Many cryptocurrency supporters believe the technology allows for the separation of money and state in a manner that’s never been seen before. Governments inflict two forms of robbery against nonviolent citizens by forcing them to pay taxes while also stealing from them silently through...
Philippines Increasingly Crypto Friendly – A Look at Driving Forces
18.8.2019
There are many reasons why the Philippines is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. Not only has its central bank registered more crypto exchanges recently, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has also been actively finalizing crypto guidelines. The country has an active crypto community...
Draggin’ and Droppin’ in React
16.8.2019
The React ecosystem offers us a lot of libraries that all are focused on the interaction of drag and drop. We have react-dnd, react-beautiful-dnd, react-drag-n-drop and many more, but some of them require quite a lot of work to build even a simple drag and drop demo, and some do not provide...
Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline
16.8.2019
This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. It all began when Ethan Marcotte made a lot of great notes about the accessibility issues that are common with AMP:
In the recordings above, I’m trying to navigate through the AMP Story. And as I do, VoiceOver describes a page...
China’s Digital Fiat Wants to Compete With Bitcoin – But It’s Not a Crypto
16.8.2019
China may be about to launch a fiat digital currency, but in all likelihood, it will only resemble a cryptocurrency on the surface
WDRL — Edition 272: Unactionable Advice, Bye iframes Hello ShadowDOM, And Teams Not Made Of Stars.
16.8.2019
Hey,
what’s more powerful than a star who knows everything? Well, a team not made of stars but of people who love what they do, like their company’s vision and can work together, support each other. Like a galaxy made of stars — where not every star shines and also doesn’t need...
The Making of an Animated Favicon
15.8.2019
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs.
That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s...
Contextual Utility Classes for Color with Custom Properties
14.8.2019
In CSS, we have the ability to access currentColor which is tremendously useful. Sadly, we do not have access to anything like currentBackgroundColor, and the color-mod() function is still a ways away.
With that said, I am sure I am not alone when I say I'd like to style some links based on...
Ad Watchdog Warns Crypto Companies Not to Mislead the Public
14.8.2019
UK advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), sent a signal to all crypto companies not to overhype crypto and to clearly indicate all risks to the consumers.
Following a newspaper ad for the cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX from January 2019, the ASA received four...
The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
14.8.2019
Some people outright hate the idea of CSS-in-JS. Just that name is offensive. Hard no. Styling doesn't belong in CSS, it belongs in CSS, a thing that already exists and that browsers are optimized to use. Separation of concerns. Anything else is a laughable misstep, a sign of not learning from...
Final Decisions on Two BTC ETFs in October May Not Be Final After All
13.8.2019
It seems that the crypto industry's struggle to finally have a Bitcoin ETF (exchange-traded fund) approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may not end with final decisions on two ETFs in October even if they are negative.
The SEC confirmed yesterday that it once again delayed...