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Zilliqa Gives $5 Million Donation Fund to Oxford Organization With a View to Increase Gender Diversity in Blockchain Niche
1.11.2019
Singapore-based blockchain firm, Zilliqa, has made an announcement concerning its donation of 5 million USD to the Oxford Women in Computer Science Society. The crucial group lends necessary support to the women who belong to the computer science arena. With the flowing funds from Zilliqa,...
Street Artist Pascal Boyart Helps Venezuelan Creators Earn Crypto
16.10.2019
Crypto-passionate street artist Pascal Boyart, well known in the space for being the first artist in his style to affix Bitcoin QR codes to his work, is now helping Venezuelan muralists and creators earn crypto. The Paris-based “Pboy,” also famous for hiding BTC in...
United Nations Agency Unicef Launches Cryptocurrency Fund
9.10.2019
Unicef announced Wednesday that it has launched a cryptocurrency fund and become the first United Nations organization to hold onto its crypto donations. Without converting them into fiat, the fund will hold two cryptocurrencies and disburse them to support projects benefiting children worldwide....
OKEx to Found Crypto Exchange Compliance Self-Regulated Organization
3.10.2019
Crypto exchange OKEx announces the creation of a self-regulated organization aiming to standardize compliance practices
BitPay Achieves Service Organization Control (SOC 2) Compliance Review
2.10.2019
Major Blockchain payments provider BitPay has proclaimed that it has passed the Service Organization Control Review (SOC 2). The review was conducted successfully by the Aprio, which is among the top 100 CPA led advisory firms. The tech audit firm assures maximum confidentiality and data privacy...
JPMorgan, Intel Alums Launch Revenue-Sharing Stablecoin USDD
1.10.2019
A dollar-backed stablecoin with a twist: revenue-sharing with the institutions that use it
Binance Seals Accreditation From Global Security Standards Organization
24.9.2019
Binance cryptocurrency exchange receives ISO accreditation
PR: Bitcoin.com Partners with Resistance – the Next Gen DEX
29.8.2019
Last week, the Resistance team met with Bitcoin.com CEO Stefan Rust, and other members of the Bitcoin.com organization, to discuss the terms of a partnership. The meeting was a great success and a strategic partnership agreement was drawn up and signed the same day.
The post PR: Bitcoin.com...
Alcor Life Extension Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations
15.8.2019
Alcor Life Extension Foundation has revealed the company is accepting bitcoin cash (BCH) donations. Alcor was convinced by Bitcoin.com’s executive chairman Roger Ver to add BCH acceptance, the same person who convinced Alcor to accept BTC payments via Bitpay back in 2014. The nonprofit...
Offchain Labs, a Startup from Princeton, is Set to Launch Arbitrum, an Add-on to any Blockchain-based Application and Services
9.8.2019
Offchain Labs, an Enterprise blockchain startup, identified the two restricting variables to significant business blockchain adoption which has the concerns about scalability and privacy. In this regard, Offchain has embarked on helping it to make progressively adaptable, blockchain-based smart...
Let’s Give Grunt Tasks the Marie Kondo Organization Treatment
6.8.2019
We live in an era of webpack and npm scripts. Good or bad, they took the lead for bundling and task running, along with bits of Rollup, JSPM and Gulp. But let's face it. Some of your older projects are still using good ol' Grunt. While it no longer glimmers as brightly, it does the job well...
10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS
27.7.2019
On July 26, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the tax agency has started sending letters to American cryptocurrency owners advising them to pay their taxes. According to the organization, three types of letters will be sent to more than 10,000 taxpayers by the end of August....
Microsoft Announces Intelligent Cloud Delivery Strategic Partnership With Etisalat Digital
4.7.2019
For many years through the noughties and early years of the 2010s, Microsoft seemed like a sleeping giant as many other tech giants passed it by in terms of innovation and newer products. However, just when it seemed that the tech giant was either unable or unwilling to get its act together; it...
Checkout the Last Public Revision with Mercurial
19.6.2019
I’ve always preferred git over Mercurial (hg) because the feature branch workflow makes organizing code and working off of master very easy. You don’t get that with vanilla mercurial — instead, commits can just sort of apply on top of each other, without much organization....
IOTA Academy Launches Educational Training Program In Close Cooperation With IOT1
27.5.2019
IOTA Germany based non-profit organization for DLT has lately announced the IOTA academy program in collaboration with IOT1. The course is devoted largely for the developers, who have curiosity in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry and wants to get occupied in it. The news surfaced through...
The Impact of Team Collaboration and Communication on Projects
9.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
The CSS-Tricks team was cracking up the other day when Miranda introduced us to something called "swoop and poop." That was a new term for most of us, but tell me if you've ever experienced this for yourself.
The idea is that someone in an organization — usually...
The Place of UX
7.5.2019
Every time "UX" comes out of my mouth or is typed by my fingers, I think, "did I just use that term correctly?" It feels like such a big and loaded term these days, that perhaps the way I use it only contributes to the confusion. Ryan Singer frames that problem well:
Debates continue to rage about...
Who Are Design Systems For?
23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...
Some Notes About Accessibility
20.3.2019
Earlier this month Eric Bailey wrote about the current state of accessibility on the web and why it felt like fighting an uphill battle:
As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work closely. Their survey results are priceless insights into...
CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz Suggests Creation of Crypto Self-Regulatory Organization
18.2.2019
A self-regulatory structure for the crypto industry has been suggested by CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz