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Emerging technologies can change the African financial landscape
4.10.2020
The ease and convenience of services backed with the emerging techs can dramatically improve the financial landscape in Africa
Aurus Disrupts the Gold Industry – Today Its Ecosystem Lists at a Value of $75m
1.10.2020
With the US dollar facing headwinds, notably the coronavirus pandemic and an upcoming presidential election that could be among the most contentious in recent memory, gold has taken over as the preferred store of value for many investors. The price of the yellow metal has soared by more than...
Sensitrust: Smart Working empowered by Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies
30.9.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, smart working was still a niche paradigm adopted by few software startups, freelancers, and nomad workers. Despite the unfortunate consequences of Covid-19 in the worldwide economy...
Canadian Firm 3iQ’s Bitcoin Fund Listed on Gibraltar Stock Exchange
30.9.2020
The Gibraltar Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it listed a new bitcoin fund belonging to 3iQ Corp, a Canadian investment fund manager that focuses on new technologies and crypto assets. The announcement follows GSX Group’s recent launch of what it calls the Grid, “a venue to create...
Web Technologies and Syntax
24.9.2020
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
const name = Data.person.name;
If person happens to not exist on Data, I’m going to get a hard, show-stopping error. With optional chaining, I can write:
const name = Data.person?.name;
Now if person...
SEC halts trading for blockchain company run by former Ron Paul staffer
24.9.2020
A blockchain company run by an ex-staffer of former Presidential candidate Ron Paul has received a temporary trading suspension from the SEC
Parity Upgrades Polkadot’s Underlying Tech to Make Custom Blockchain Building Easier
23.9.2020
Polkadot developer Parity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit Substrate 2.0, including 70 composable modules
Figure Technologies releases fund services offerings on blockchain
19.9.2020
They aim to make investing faster
Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association Has Been Established
10.9.2020
Lugano, 10 September 2020 – The Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association aims to promote research and support innovative companies active in the Blockchain sector, as well as to promote academic studies of this new technology, thanks to the participation of USI (University of Southern...
Here’s How I Solved a Weird Bug Using Tried and True Debugging Strategies
28.8.2020
Remember the last time you dealt with a UI-related bug that left you scratching your head for hours? Maybe the issue was happening at random, or occurring under specific circumstances (device, OS, browser, user action), or was just hidden in one of the many front-end technologies that are part...
Going Jamstack with React, Serverless, and Airtable
27.8.2020
The best way to learn is to build. Let’s learn about this hot new buzzword, Jamstack, by building a site with React, Netlify (Serverless) Functions, and Airtable. One of the ingredients of Jamstack is static hosting, but that doesn’t mean everything on the site has to be static. In fact, we’re...
Riot Blockchain Buys 8,000 of Bitmain’s Latest Bitcoin Miners, Company Targets 1.5 EH/s by 2021
25.8.2020
Bitmain Technologies Inc. said Monday that Nasdaq-listed Riot Blockchain is buying 8,000 of its Antminer S19 Pro bitcoin miners in a deal worth $17.7 million. In a blog post, the Chinese crypto mining hardware maker stated that the machines will be delivered in batches of 2,000 over four straight...
Radix Releases Technologies to Bring DeFi Into Mainstream
24.8.2020
Can Radix make DeFi the new normal?
Chapter 3: The Website
19.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Berners-Lee, motivated by his own curiosity, creates the World Wide Web at CERN. He releases its technologies to the public domain, which enables the development of several new browsers for every operating system. Mosaic proves to the most popular, and...
Chapter 2: Browsers
12.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet — with a small team at CERN. He convinces the higher-ups in the organizations to put the web in the public domain so anyone can...
Lumi Wallet Web Widget: Cryptocurrency Exchange on Your Website
7.8.2020
Good news for those who want to upgrade their website with functional tools and features – on August 5st, Lumi Wallet Technologies launched its app web widget. Now everyone can easily embed a “mini digital wallet” into the body of their website. The Lumi Wallet Widget is a useful...
Polkadot Releases Rococo, Its Test Environment for Interoperable ‘Parachains’
6.8.2020
Polkadot has released its first testnet, Rococo, for its parachain network. The testnet will commence with three parachains, Parity Technologies said
style9: build-time CSS-in-JS
29.7.2020
In April of last year, Facebook revealed its big new redesign. An ambitious project, it was a rebuild of a large site with a massive amount of users. To accomplish this, they used several technologies they have created and open-sourced, such as React, GraphQL, Relay, and a new CSS-in-JS library...
Polkadot Raises $43M in 72-Hour Private Sale: Source
27.7.2020
A second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) has netted some 3,982.07 BTC worth an estimated $43.3 million as of press time, according to sources
Cambrian Raises $4M to Run $25M Crypto Quant Fund
23.7.2020
Cambrian has landed $4 million of operating capital from high-flying technology and finance investors to help run its $25 million data-driven crypto-trading fund