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Bisq Attacked, BUX Crypto Launched, Bithumb Got a Black Mark + More News
8.4.2020
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.
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Bisq, an open-source, peer-to-peer crypto trading platform, said that an attacker was able to exploit a flaw...
Creating Scheduled Push Notifications
8.4.2020
Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 hours”) that means it can be shown to the user even if they’ve gone offline. That’s an improvement from the past where push notification...
The WebAIM Million—Updated
8.4.2020
This report made a big splash last year. It’s a large chunk of research that shows just how terribly the web does with accessibility. It’s been updated this year and (drumroll…) we got a little worse. I’ll use their blockquote:
The number of errors increased 2.1% between...
Election App Voatz Just Got Kicked Out of a Major Bug Bounty Program
30.3.2020
Bug bounty platform HackerOne severed ties with Medici Ventures-backed Voatz, the blockchain-based mobile voting app for breach of partnership standards
How to Buy Weed With Bitcoin
25.3.2020
So you’ve got a little bitcoin to your name but are all out of weed. What you gonna do? Well, if you’re fortunate enough to live in a region where marijuana is legal, there are ways to exchange the two. While if you don’t inhabit such an enlightened area, rumor has it there...
1.2 Million Italians Can Now Buy Bitcoin From Their Bank
21.3.2020
Buying bitcoin just got easier for Italians. The country’s mobile bank Hype has announced a partnership with fintech Conio, enabling customers to buy, sell, and securely store BTC from within their banking app. With over a million Italians choosing to bank with Hype, and 60,000 new customers...
Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
Justin Sun vs. Steem Community Case Just Got Even More Complicated
20.3.2020
In an expected counter-move to the Steem (STEEM) community's move, which itself was a move to counter a move, Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation have allegedly decided to censor all posts on the platform related to the community's soon-to-be launched new home, Hive.
This has been a complicated...
What Does `playsinline` Mean in Web Video?
18.3.2020
I got myself confused about this the other day, went around searching for an answer and came up empty on finding something clear. The answer actually is quite clear and I feel a little silly for not knowing it.
With it in place, like this:
<video src="..." controls playsinline</video
Mobile...
18 Ethereum Conference Attendees Got Coronavirus, Buterin Not On the List
17.3.2020
An important spreadsheet has been making its way through the Cryptoverse - that of an Ethereum conference attendees who have tested positive for coronavirus - potentially as a warning to others.
Popular Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) took place from March 3 until March 5 this year in Paris...
I Attended a Bitcoin Conference in VR and Still Got Sick
9.3.2020
Motion sickness, but still
What to Use Instead of Number Inputs
6.3.2020
You might reach for <input type="number> when you're, you know, trying to collect a number in a form. But it's got all sorts of issues. For one, sometimes what you want kinda looks like a number, but isn't one (like how a credit card number has spaces), because it's really just a string...
How to Get Free Bitcoin in 2020
28.2.2020
Many early adopters who made a fortune from cryptocurrency first got their hands on coins by receiving them for free from bitcoin faucets back in the day. Today there are still a number of ways for you to get bitcoin for free including airdrops, giveaways, bounties, tipping, referral programs...
10+ Examples of Responsive Websites That Got It Right
27.2.2020
How do you make sure your website will look good on every browser and device? Take a look at these responsive web designs and you’ll discover how.
10+ Examples of Responsive Websites That Got It Right was written by Bogdan Sandu and published on Codrops
MoneyGram Got Another $11M From Ripple to Use Its Cross-Border Payments Tech
25.2.2020
Payments firm Ripple has given MoneyGram over $11 million dollars in the past half year, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
What Have Vladimir Putin, Warren Buffett, and Justin Sun Got in Common? This Bitcoin Address
25.2.2020
Vladimir Putin. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, TASS
Has someone just used the massively popular phrase meant to insult no other than Russian President Vladimir Putin to sent Warren Buffett some Bitcoin (BTC)?
The dinner between Tron's Justin Sun and billionaire crypto-sceptic Warren Buffett...
How the Ethereum Foundation Got UNICEF to Embrace Blockchain
24.2.2020
A donation to UNICEF may be the Ethereum Foundation’s shrewdest investment yet
Centering a div That Maintains Aspect-Ratio When There’s Body Margin
18.2.2020
Andrew Welch had a little CSS challenge the other day to make an ordinary div:
• centered vertically + horizontally• scales to fit the viewport w/ a margin around it• maintains an arbitrary aspect ratio• No JS
There's a video in that tweet if it helps you visualize the challenge. I saw Paul...
50 Cent, Talib Kweli, Snoop Dogg and Nas: Celebrities Who Could Be Bitcoin Millionaires
17.2.2020
Many celebrities have mentioned the benefits of bitcoin and leveraged the asset for certain projects. For instance, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli all sold albums for BTC, but when cryptocurrency prices skyrocketed, 50 Cent told the public he sold his coins as soon as he got them. Many other...
While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better
14.2.2020
One thing that caught my eye on the list of features for Lea Verou's conic-gradient() polyfill was the last item:
Supports double position syntax (two positions for the same color stop, as a shortcut for two consecutive color stops with the same color)
Surprisingly, I recently discovered most...