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Crypto Experts Give Their Top Predictions for 2020
19.12.2019
In an industry built around digital scarcity, opinions are in plentiful supply. Everyone’s got one, and they’d love to share it with the rest of the cryptosphere. As the decade draws to a close and another prepares to launch, it’s the perfect time to consider what 2020 has...
Bitcoin Has Got Society to Think About the Nature of Money
16.12.2019
2020 may be the year we see the value of infrastructure built in response to bitcoin and the energy around blockchain
Detecting Inactive Users
13.12.2019
Most of the time you don’t really care about whether a user is actively engaged or temporarily inactive on your application. Inactive, meaning, perhaps they got up to get a drink of water, or more likely, changed tabs to do something else for a bit. There are situations, though, when tracking...
Just Sharing My Gulpfile
11.12.2019
Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I'd run my watch command, change some CSS, and the processing would sometimes leave behind some extra files that were meant to be cleaned up during the processing. Like the cleanup tasks...
Fraudulent Group Involved in $722 Scam Got Arrested by the US Authorities
11.12.2019
On Tuesday, the Justice Department made an announcement regarding the arrest of three men involved in an alleged fraud that led to the embezzlement of a whopping amount of $722 million from the investors via fake bitcoin mining earnings. According to the latest reports, the prosecutors have...
Cardano (ADA) Got Mauled by the Bear; Lost 1.62% in One Day
5.12.2019
Cardano trades at $0.037, and it has made an overall slump of 1.62% over the last 24 hours The tough times are here to stay for ADA; support may come at $0.036 Cardano has failed to show any decent signs of a stable outlook, and over the last 24 hours, it has lost 1.62%, and …
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The Vertcoin Cryptocurrency Just Got 51% Attacked – Again
2.12.2019
Vertcoin, a crypto project that sets out to keep mining power decentralized, has suffered its second 51-percent attack in a year
iOS 13 Broke the Classic Pure CSS Parallax Technique
27.11.2019
I know. You hate parallax. You know what we should hate more? When things that used to work on the web stop working without any clear warning or idea why.
Way back in 2014, Keith Clark blogged an exceptionally clever CSS trick where you essentially use a CSS transform to scale an element down...
How Building in the Open Can Change Our Industry
21.11.2019
I have to admit, I'm a developer who hasn't built a website. When I first read Chris's question, I sat in silence for at least a minute. Which technical topic did I want to discuss? A new library, programming language or best practice? Nothing, in particular, came to mind. Is that because I'm a...
The future is bright, because the future is static
20.11.2019
I've been doing this web thing for money for 10 years this year and although I haven’t been around as long as some folks, I feel like I've seen a few cycles come and go now, so let's say that hot new things are often cynically viewed, initially. This milestone of mine has also got me in...
Report: George Bush’s Brother Got $300K for Meeting With OneCoin’s ‘Cryptoqueen’
18.11.2019
Neil Bush — the son and brother of two American presidents — is alleged to have received $300,000 to attend a meeting involving OneCoin’s “cryptoqueen,” Ruja Ignatova
'We've Got to Be Careful’ With Crypto Regulation, Says QUOINE Co-Founder
15.11.2019
Crypto regulation is one of the hottest topics at the BlockShow Asia 2019
Got Bitcoin? US Fed Warns National Debt Growth Is ‘Not Sustainable’
14.11.2019
Fed stays soft on “consequences” of $23 trillion debt
'Bitcoin is a Safe Haven' Narrative Got into Trouble - Analysts
13.11.2019
Recent developments in global traditional markets and bitcoin's (BTC) moves complicate the narrative that the price of the most popular cryptocurrency benefits from safe haven capital flows, crypto market analysis firm Coin Metrics said.
“Recent firmness in macroeconomic indicators confirm that...
South Korean Exchange CEO Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
13.11.2019
A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years. They duped thousands of investors, promising them up to 200% return within...
How We Got Ivy League Students to use Blockchain Tech
5.11.2019
Columbia students got their campus to use a blockchain-based social app by making it easy to use and relevant to students’ daily lives
Become a Front-End Master in 2020 With These 10 Project Ideas
1.11.2019
This is a little updated cross-post from a quickie article I wrote on DEV. I'm publishing here 'cuz I'm all IndieWeb like that.
I love this post by Simon Holdorf. He's got some ideas for how to level up your skills as a front-end developer next year. Here they are:
Build a movie search app using...
6 Darknet Markets for the Crypto Curious
19.10.2019
If you’ve got a few thousand satoshis burning a hole in your wallet, the darknet beckons. There’s no obligation to spend a single sat while scouring the darker recesses of the web, but it’s nice to know that should you get the urge, your crypto’s good. There are...
Facebook’s Libra Just Got Its First Major Supporter in Congress
17.10.2019
Bucking a trend, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) wrote a letter praising Libra as a technological advance that he feels is needed
Just a little push will do
17.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 17 October, 2019 Encourage “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ello CoinMarketCap-ers! We've got some exciting news today!!! ???? Today in history (1888), Thomas Edison patented...