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Tim Draper: "Kamala Harris Can Learn Crypto"
19.8.2020
Whether she will or not is another matter
Ex-Prudential Securities CEO Calls Bitcoin a ‘Safe Haven’
17.8.2020
George Ball, who claimed himself as a Bitcoin and blockchain opponent, said that bitcoin or another cryptocurrency is “very attractive” both in the long term and short term
Former Prudential Financial CEO George Ball Says Now Time to Buy Bitcoin
17.8.2020
Former Prudential Financial CEO George Ball is advising wealthy investors to acquire bitcoin because it is the only asset that cannot be undermined by the government. Ball made the comments while discussing adjustments that investors need to make to their portfolios. Now CEO at Sander Morris...
Novogratz Says Biden and Harris Good for Country, Bad for Markets
15.8.2020
The upcoming election is a big deal for financial markets
Bitcoin Prize For Winners Of South Africa Mountain Bike Race
11.7.2020
About 150 mountain bikers will compete at this year’s edition of the Munga MTB race in South Africa. The race will commence in the first week of December. The top three finishers in each category will share the 1.5 bitcoin in prize money. The Bitstamp sponsored race was launched in 2015....
“The Modern Web”
22.5.2020
A couple of interesting articles making the rounds:
Tom MacWrite: Second-guessing the modern web
Rich Harris: In defense of the modern web
I like Tom’s assertion that React (which he’s using as a stand-in for JavaScript frameworks in general) has an ideal usage:
There is a sweet spot...
What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...
Why I don’t use web components
25.6.2019
Here’s an interesting post by Rich Harris where he’s made a list of some of the problems he’s experienced in the past with web components and why he doesn’t use them today:
Given finite resources, time spent on one task means time not spent on another task. Considerable energy has been expended...