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Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
16.7.2020
This is a masterclass from Dave:
After you hit the wall of unremovable complexity, any “advances” are a shell game, making tradeoffs that get passed down to the user … you get “advances” by shifting where the complexity lives.
You don’t get free reductions in complexity. In CSS land...
The IRS Investigation Division Is Requesting Information About Privacy-Centric Cryptocurrencies
4.7.2020
The United States tax agency has published a request for information pertaining to privacy-centric cryptocurrencies and technologies that obfuscate crypto transactions. The IRS-CI Cyber Crimes Unit request is also asking for information in relation to “layer two offchain protocol networks...
US Contract Miner Core Scientific Buys 17,600 Bitcoin Miners From Bitmain
30.6.2020
U.S. contract mining firm Core Scientific has agreed on a deal to buy 17,600 mining rigs from Chinese bitcoin hardware maker Bitmain Technologies Inc. The company is buying Bitmain’s next-generation bitcoin (BTC) miner, the Antminer S19, it said in a statement on June 29. The miners will...
An Overview of Scroll Technologies
22.6.2020
Scroll-related animations have been used on the web for years. In recent years, they’ve started to become more common, perhaps in part due to devices being higher-performing and thus able to handle more animation. 
There are a number of scroll related technologies out there, so this article’s...
Unicef Funding Startups With Cryptocurrency for Covid-19 Relief
21.6.2020
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has announced its largest cryptocurrency investment funding of startups. Eight companies in seven countries will use Unicef’s crypto fund to develop prototypes, pilot, or scale their technologies. Several of them are working on mitigating...
Russia’s Supreme Court Makes ‘Landmark’ Vote With Blockchain System from Kapersky Lab
12.6.2020
The court for the first time used a blockchain-based system to record votes in a web-hosted plenary session Friday
5 Myths About Jamstack
9.6.2020
Jamstack isn’t necessarily new. The term was officially coined in 2016, but the technologies and architecture it describes have been around well before that. Jamstack has received a massive dose of attention recently, with articles about it appearing in major sites and publications and...
Opportunities for Blockchain-Based Technologies in African Healthcare
7.6.2020
Emerging technologies such as blockchain can dramatically improve the situation with the healthcare industry in Africa by its implementation
US Lawmaker Proposes Legislative Groundwork for National Blockchain Strategy
20.5.2020
A new bill in Congress asks the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to consider a national blockchain strategy
Blockchain in Mobile Application Market
15.5.2020
Blockchain & Mobile apps: With the vast competition already in the marketplace, several technologies are […]
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Parity’s Gavin Wood Takes a Swipe at Ethereum
11.5.2020
Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed
Angular + Jamstack! (Free Webinar)
5.5.2020
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It’s easy to think that working with Jamstack means working with some specific set of technologies. That’s how it’s traditionally been packaged for us. Think LAMP stack, where Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP are explicit tools and languages. or MEAN...
COVID-19 Tracing Apps Have to Go Viral to Work. That’s a Big Ask
24.4.2020
How do you make it so people actually want to download a contact tracing app?
Portugal Unveils ‘Free Zones’ for Emerging Technologies in Digital Action Plan
24.4.2020
Portugal is taking an ambitious approach to encouraging experimentation with blockchain, AI, 5G and other emerging technologies
Bitcoin Halving Searches Surge – Phrase Touches Google Trends All-Time High
21.4.2020
The notorious bitcoin halving is expected to happen in 20 days either on or around May 12, 2020. The anticipation leading up to the event is at an all-time high, as last week worldwide queries for the phrase “bitcoin halving” using Google peaked with a top score of 100. On Tuesday...
‘Long Bitcoin’ It Ain’t: Crypto Traders Make Sense of Renaissance Filing
21.4.2020
How might Renaissance approach bitcoin as an underlying asset, given the hedge fund’s reputation for using mind-bending math to find profits?
$166B Asset Manager Renaissance Eyes Bitcoin Futures for Flagship Fund
19.4.2020
Renaissance Technologies’ market-crushing Medallion fund is considering jumping into bitcoin futures, recent regulatory filings show
Film Reels and Steel: Github Plans to Archive Bitcoin Code for 1,000 Years
1.4.2020
The Microsoft subsidiary, Github recently revealed the “Archive Program,” an initiative that aims to preserve open source technologies for 1,000 years. The newly launched effort plans to store snapshots of open source technology 250 meters underground on the Norwegian island...
IoT App Nodle Moves From Stellar Blockchain to Polkadot
31.3.2020
IoT platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to a custom build on Parity Technologies’ Substrate network
Playing With Particles Using the Web Animations API
18.3.2020
When it comes to motion and animations, there is probably nothing I love more than particles. This is why every time I explore new technologies I always end up creating demos with as many particles as I can.
In this post, we'll make even more particle magic using the Web Animations API to create...